Meaning of "cut up" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF CUT UP

cut up

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CUT UP

Cut up is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cut up in English.

WHAT DOES CUT UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cut-up technique

The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.

Definition of cut up in the English dictionary

The first definition of cut up in the dictionary is to cut into pieces. Other definition of cut up is to inflict injuries on. Cut up is also to affect the feelings of deeply.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CUT UP

PRESENT

Present

I cut up

you cut up

he/she/it cuts up

we cut up

you cut up

they cut up

Present continuous

I am cutting up

you are cutting up

he/she/it is cutting up

we are cutting up

you are cutting up

they are cutting up

Present perfect

I have cut up

you have cut up

he/she/it has cut up

we have cut up

you have cut up

they have cut up

Present perfect continuous

I have been cutting up

you have been cutting up

he/she/it has been cutting up

we have been cutting up

you have been cutting up

they have been cutting up

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I cut up

you cut up

he/she/it cut up

we cut up

you cut up

they cut up

Past continuous

I was cutting up

you were cutting up

he/she/it was cutting up

we were cutting up

you were cutting up

they were cutting up

Past perfect

I had cut up

you had cut up

he/she/it had cut up

we had cut up

you had cut up

they had cut up

Past perfect continuous

I had been cutting up

you had been cutting up

he/she/it had been cutting up

we had been cutting up

you had been cutting up

they had been cutting up

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will cut up

you will cut up

he/she/it will cut up

we will cut up

you will cut up

they will cut up

Future continuous

I will be cutting up

you will be cutting up

he/she/it will be cutting up

we will be cutting up

you will be cutting up

they will be cutting up

Future perfect

I will have cut up

you will have cut up

he/she/it will have cut up

we will have cut up

you will have cut up

they will have cut up

Future perfect continuous

I will have been cutting up

you will have been cutting up

he/she/it will have been cutting up

we will have been cutting up

you will have been cutting up

they will have been cutting up

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would cut up

you would cut up

he/she/it would cut up

we would cut up

you would cut up

they would cut up

Conditional continuous

I would be cutting up

you would be cutting up

he/she/it would be cutting up

we would be cutting up

you would be cutting up

they would be cutting up

Conditional perfect

I would have cut up

you would have cut up

he/she/it would have cut up

we would have cut up

you would have cut up

they would have cut up

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been cutting up

you would have been cutting up

he/she/it would have been cutting up

we would have been cutting up

you would have been cutting up

they would have been cutting up

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you cut up
we let´s cut up
you cut up

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to cut up

Past participle

cut up

Present Participle

cutting up

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF CUT UP

Find out the translation of cut up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cut up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cut up» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 切碎
• Translator English - Spanish: cortar en pedazos
• English: cut up
• Translator English - Hindi: को काटा
• Translator English - Arabic: يُقَطِّعُ
• Translator English - Russian: разрезать
• Translator English - Portuguese: cortar em pedaços
• Translator English - Bengali: টুকরা টুকরা করা
• Translator English - French: découper
• Translator English - Malay: memotong
• Translator English - German: zerschneiden
• Translator English - Japanese: 切り分ける
• Translator English - Korean: 잘게 자르다
• Translator English - Javanese: Cut munggah
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cắt ra từng mảnh
• Translator English - Tamil: வெட்டி
• Translator English - Marathi: तुटलेला
• Translator English - Turkish: Kesmek
• Translator English - Italian: tagliare a pezzetti
• Translator English - Polish: pokroić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: розрізати
• Translator English - Romanian: a tăia în bucăți
• Translator English - Greek: κόβω σε κομμάτια
• Translator English - Afrikaans: sny
• Translator English - Swedish: uppröra
• Translator English - Norwegian: skjære opp

10 QUOTES WITH «CUT UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cut up.

1

Richard Dean Anderson

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

2

Anne Burrell

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

3

Rick Danko

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

4

Joe Frazier

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

5

Jim Gaffigan

Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

6

Rudyard Kipling

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

7

James Lafferty

What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine.

8

Mary Lasker

Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.

9

Kelly Osbourne

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

10

Sharon Stone

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUT UP»

Discover the use of cut up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cut up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Easy Cut-Up Cakes for Kids

It's easy as 1-2-3 with Easy Cut-Up Cakes for Kids!

Melissa Barlow, 2007

Easy Christmas Cut-up Cakes for Kids

A follow-up to the popular Easy Cut-Up Cakes for Kids, this book teaches children and parents to make fabulous Christmas creations from regular square, round, and 9 x 13-inch cake pans.

Melissa Barlow, 2009

Cut-Up Couture: Edgy Upcycled Garments to Sew

Cut-Up Couture is a cutting-edge design book that teaches how to use the copious fabric in men's clothing items to make 34 innovative garments and accessories.

Koko Yamase, 2012

Shift Linguals: Cut-up Narratives from William S. Burroughs ...

With explorations of the works of Burroughs, Gysin, Kathy Acker, and John Giorno, it also contains the first critical writing on the works of Claude Pélieu and Carl Weissner in English, as well as the first in-depth discussion of the ...

Edward S. Robinson, 2011

Sequencing Cut-Up Paragraphs, Grades 1 - 2: Find & Use ...

To do the activities in Sequencing Cut-Up Paragraphs, students must read fiction and nonfiction passages plus the illustrations that go along with them. 2. Students use a variety of strategies to build meaning while reading. The main strategy ...

Kelly Gunzenhauser, 2010

Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. ...

In 1959 Burroughs was introduced to what would become the central device in his writing in the 1960s — the cut,up method as discovered by his friend Brion Gysin, poet and painter. Having made accidental cuts through several sheets of ...

Robin Lydenberg, 1987

Cut and Paste: Language Arts

A fun way to do this activity is to cut up sentences written on a piece of paper. Place all of the pieces of each sentence into its own plastic Easter egg. Then tell the students to put the sentences back together again just like Humpty Dumpty.

Jodene Smith, 2003

The Jefferson Bible:

The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as ...

Thomas Jefferson, Wyatt North, 2014

The Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book

Infinitive present tense -ing form past tense past participle cut up cut up & cuts up cutting up cut up cut up 1 . cut ... up p.v. When you use a knife or pair of scissors to cut something so that there are many small pieces, you cut it up. The boy's ...

Carl W. Hart, 1999

Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs

care not for, and should be cut up. Word poetry is for everyman, but soul poetry — alas, is not widely distributed. (63) Corso's pious lament over having his "soul poetry" "destroyed," like his elitist claim to a poetic inspiration beyond the reach of  ...

Timothy S. Murphy, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUT UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cut up is used in the context of the following news items.

Microsoft to Cut Up to 7800 Jobs, Mostly in Its Phone Unit

SEATTLE — Microsoft said on Wednesday that it would eliminate up to 7,800 jobs, more than 6 percent of its work force, in a major overhaul of ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

Hospital staff cut up doll that woman treated as her own child

A woman with severe learning disabilities has been awarded £65,000 in compensation from the NHS, after hospital staff cut up a doll that she ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

Making a fruit salad? Don't be such a cut-up.

When preparing fruit salad, which fruits can be cut up and tossed together in advance, and which should be chopped or added at the last ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Army could cut up to 6000 jobs in San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO - The U.S. Army is expected to announce this week the extent of expected cuts to the armed service. The full extent of those cuts ... «FOX 29, Jul 15»

Macy's Severs Ties with Trump, Supporters Cut Up Credit Cards

In response to Donald Trump's controversial remarks about immigrants from Mexico, Macy's has decided to pull his clothing line off their ... «LowCards.com, Jul 15»

Police: Man Taken into Custody for Allegedly Threatening to Cut Up …

DUBOIS -- DUBOIS – A man was taken into custody for allegedly threatening to cut up his roommates during an incident Saturday, reported the DuBois City ... «KXLH Helena News, Jul 15»

Maid murdered, cut up and boiled boss before fleeing here in 1879

She was a serial thief-turned housemaid from Co Wexford who threw her despised boss down the stairs, strangled and decapitated her, and ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

Feeling ignored: MQM chief cut up over PPP leaders' indifference

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said on Saturday that he is “deeply hurt” by the callousness of the Pakistan ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»

Source: Anglo American to cut up to 20 percent of staff

Tough times call for tough decisions and Anglo American is prepared to do just that. The global mining company is reportedly planning to cut ... «Mining Global, Jul 15»

BBC to cut up to 1000 jobs due to £150m licence fee income shortfall

The BBC is to cut up to 1,000 jobs, including many managerial roles, because of a £150 million shortfall in its licence fee income. Announcing ... «ITV News, Jul 15»