Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man's formal daytime coat, with front edges sloping diagonally from the waist and forming tails at the back.
- noun A brief shot that interrupts the main action of a film, often to depict related matter or supposedly concurrent action.
- noun A model or diagram of an object with part of the outer layer removed so as to reveal the interior.
- noun Sports An inward dive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut back from the waist: as, a cutaway coat.
- noun A single-breasted coat with the skirt cut back from the waist in a long slope or curve. See
coat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.
- adjective a coat whose skirts are cut away in front so as not to meet at the bottom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having selectively removed surface elements of a three-dimensional model that make internal features visible, but without sacrificing the outer context entirely.
- noun television A
cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction. - noun A
coat with a tapered frontline. - noun A
diagram ormodel having outer layers removed so as to show theinterior
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees
- noun a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts
- verb remove by cutting off or away
- verb move quickly to another scene or focus when filming
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Battery pack in cutaway Leaf frame from NAIAS 2010
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Battery pack in cutaway Leaf frame from NAIAS 2010
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Granted, the tastelessness can get a bit too mean-spirited, and Guy's fondness for scattershot jokes can be wearing; whenever anyone makes a comparison, you know some extraneous cutaway is coming.
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Over or under three: Number of exotic island creatures we’ll see in cutaway shots.
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Over or under three: Number of exotic island creatures we’ll see in cutaway shots. (1 point) 12.
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And then this qu -- this whole business of -- of the -- of the so-called cutaway shots, the reaction shots.
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So it might be although a little trawling on Google would have put them right, but that did not stop the newspaper – on the basis of its wholly inadequate research - printing a "cutaway" from its own leader, headed: "Bungling Browne betrays soldiers".
Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007
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So it might be although a little trawling on Google would have put them right, but that did not stop the newspaper – on the basis of its wholly inadequate research - printing a "cutaway" from its own leader, headed: "Bungling Browne betrays soldiers".
How about doing YOUR jobs? Richard 2007
hernesheir commented on the word cutaway
(n): in cinematography, a film shot, usually a closeup of some detail, or a landscape, that is used break up a matching action sequence. Cutaways are often very helpful as a rescue from an otherwise impossible break in continuity or coverage. As the name implies, a cutaway does not focus on some detail of the shot before or after it but cuts away from the action at hand.
January 18, 2009