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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clear-cut
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ However, the situation is not quite as clear-cut as it might seem.
▪ It is not, however, as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent.
▪ The situation wasn't as clear-cut as he'd have liked.
▪ But now nothing on the political-economic front is as clear-cut as it used to be.
less
▪ But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time.
▪ Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys.
▪ Furthermore, if firms pursue objectives other than profit maximisation then the picture becomes even less clear-cut.
▪ At other times, the options are less clear-cut.
▪ On the output side the similarity is less clear-cut.
▪ However, in our experience the matter is less clear-cut and what is right for some is not the solution for others.
▪ Internationally, the situation is less clear-cut.
▪ But progress in marriage and parenting for people with learning difficulties is much less clear-cut and visible.
more
▪ The lesson to chess players is more clear-cut: chess turns out to be a much richer world than they thought.
▪ The appearance of a quid pro quo in the Hammer pardon is much more clear-cut than it is in the Rich case.
▪ The new regent was given the opportunity to determine a much more clear-cut policy than that of the 1540s.
▪ Or at least much more clear-cut and defined.
▪ For Sir Vernon Harcourt the issue was even more clear-cut.
▪ Transcription has the unfortunate tendency to make things seem simpler and more clear-cut than they really are.
so
▪ In practice the distinction is not so clear-cut.
▪ Pound's case is by no means so clear-cut.
▪ Unfortunately, the situation is not so clear-cut.
▪ But by 1273, when both the original parties to the 1259 agreement were dead, the issues were by no means so clear-cut.
▪ Honey Anna Scott-#so clear-cut, so far in the lead.
■ NOUN
distinction
▪ There is, however, no clear-cut distinction, rather a continuum exists between the specific procedures and general information gathering.
▪ There is no clear-cut distinction between the plausible and the fantastic.
▪ Structural linguists question the existence of a clear-cut distinction between what is grammatical and what is ungrammatical.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a clear-cut case of sexual harassment
▪ the clear-cut outline of the mountains
▪ There's no clear-cut distinction between severe depression and mental illness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chief among them was the lack of a clear-cut purpose.
▪ His was a dark, autocratic face, with clear-cut features that held an austere masculine beauty.
▪ It is not, however, as clear-cut in this country as it is on the continent.
▪ It is only in the elite price category, $ 35 and above, that Champagne holds a clear-cut advantage.
▪ My own approach is not biographical, and assumes neither a clear-cut persona nor a narrative sequence.
▪ The individual that produces the most clear-cut signal is most likely to have the most offspring.
▪ There no longer is a clear-cut definition of liberal and conservative.
▪ There were few outright failures, and many clear-cut successes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clear-cut

Clear-cut \Clear"-cut`\, v. t. To cut (a region of forest) clear of all trees. It is a method used for efficiently logging a portion of forest, but often has undesirable effects on the environment.

Clear-cut

Clear-cut \Clear"-cut`\, a.

  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.

    She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face.
    --Tennyson.

  2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.

  3. Distinct and unambiguous; unquestionable; as, a clear-cut advantage.

Wiktionary
clear-cut

a. (alternative spelling of clear cut English)

WordNet
clear-cut

  1. adj. clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong" [syn: distinct, trenchant]

  2. having had all the trees removed at one time; "clear-cut hillsides subject to erosion"

  3. clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible; "as clear as a whistle"; "clear footprints in the snow"; "the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather"; "a spire clean-cut against the sky"; "a clear-cut pattern" [syn: clear, clean-cut]

Usage examples of "clear-cut".

And the shadows in that other home, the palazzo on the Canal Grande, in these days of waiting, were colder, hasher,--born of selfishness rather than love, of disappointed ambition perhaps,--but they were very real shadows nevertheless, obscuring the clear-cut traditions of centuries, out of which one should struggle through increase of pride, the other through the broadening of a more generous love.

Faced with the kind of literature on the subject of Catharism that is found in many Languedocian tourist shops, one might be forgiven for thinking that it was a sort of dewy-eyed New Age religion with a clear-cut, simplistic theology.

The high mountain peaks had risen well above the horizon, and from being a simple blotch upon the clear-cut sealine, the land had developed a decided personality of its own.

His clear-cut features, something too sharply defined for absolute regularity, with the unassertive effect of his straight auburn hair, his deliberate, contemplative glance, his reserved, high-bred look, the quiet decorum of his manner, were not suggestive of the tumult of his inner consciousness, and the unresponsiveness of his aspect baffled Briscoe.

And now, with his bright white hair, his close-brushed white whiskers on a face burnt brown, his clear-cut features, and a winning droop of his eyelids, there was powder in him still, if not shot.

My first task, then, clear-cut in the fourth panel, had been to hie me from Samos to Mount Atlas, where sat the crony trio on their thrones, facing outward back to back and shoulder shoulder in a mean triangle.

The clear-cut, no-messing New England accent and the sound of rapid fire got me stressing big time.

Now, of course, she knew much more: what had happened around Lascaille's Shroud, and how Carine Lefevre's death was not the clear-cut thing he had made it seem upon his return to Yellowstone.

The immediate criteria on which the decision is based are relatively simple and clear-cut, and because all the circumstances are familiar, he scarcely has to think about it.

The neat and clear-cut discreteness of classification is liable to evaporate if we try to include all animals that have ever lived, rather than just modern animals.

He sighed as he finished, though, for he and Bradwarden had just concluded a similar conversation in which the centaur had called for an attack, but Elbryan had reasoned that the clear-cutting might be no more than a trap set for their band.

And maybe she wasn't making a lot of friends in the towns roundabout, fighting for closure of the mines and to stop the clear-cutting and all, but she was still happier than Edna had ever been on that land.

Considering what his kind was doing to Nettie's beloved hills, clear-cutting the old timber stands, parceling up the family farms, and selling the lots off for housing developments, I'd have guessed Lilah married him just to spite her mother, but Chloë says there's a real affection between them.

Blinding sheets of lightning crackled up the slope, clear-cutting whole swaths of goblins and turning the ground into a slick black mess of gore.

It was no longer necessary to send out dirty yokels in coonskin caps to chart the wilderness, kill the abos, and clear-cut the groves.