Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut or finished by machinery; specifically, of files, cut in a file-cutting machine, instead of by hand.
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Examples
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The bits did fit together, like a machine-cut jigsaw puzzle.
Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010
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She examines machine-cut wings as they pass by, she explains, snipping some to shape and removing pieces that aren't cut right.
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The newly repaired walls, the machine-cut stone and tiles only emphasised how ruined were the authentic surroundings.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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Last year's pavilion, a timber-grid structure made from 700 machine-cut pieces, sold for £300,000 about $560,000.
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The second part was of machine-cut white paper, crumbling with age, a printed text here and there annotated in the same hand as the first section, with a written postscript.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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About how she remembered trying to make-no, not make, engineer-Campbell's Vegetable Soup from scratch-chopping up the carrots and potatoes to resemble machine-cut cubes-getting the exact number of lima beans per can (4).
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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It was attractively engraved, although clearly machine-cut.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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It was attractively engraved, although clearly machine-cut.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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The gear segments, eighteen in number, are made of gun iron, and the teeth are machine-cut, epicycloidal in form.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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It splits in narrow strata, and the cleavage is so sharp that it appears machine-cut – the remnants of a giant factory of roofing slabs.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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