Crossword clues for cut-off
cut-off
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cut-off \Cut"-off`\ (k[u^]t"[o^]f`; 115), n.
That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.
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(Mach.)
The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion.
Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.
Wiktionary
a. Having had shirt sleeves or pantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end. n. (alternative spelling of cutoff English)
Wikipedia
Cut-offs are usually made from leather or denim jackets with their sleeves removed, or cut very short, and often adorned with patches, badges and painted artwork that display motorcycle club affiliations known as colors, or alternatively band names, political affiliations, beliefs or sexual acts performed.
In the 1970s and 1980s, cut-offs were almost always blue denim. Thrash metal fans favored heavily washed denim, while members of one British motorcycle club bleached theirs until they were almost white. From the mid to late 1990s, some punks and metalheads have worn multi-pocketed hunting or fishing vests, both in plain colours and camouflage patterns, and leather cut-offs—always popular with punks, and with bikers in recent decades.
The word Kutte (plural: Kutten) is a German loanword which literally references the religious habit of a Christian monk (from the Latin cotta, cf. Engl. coat) but that is also, in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, used for Cut-offs.
In electronics, cut-off is a state of negligible conduction that is a property of several types of electronic components when a control parameter (that usually is a well-defined voltage or electric current, but could also be an incident light intensity or a magnetic field), is lowered or increased past a value (the conduction threshold). The transition from normal conduction to cut-off can be more or less sharp, depending on the type of device considered, and also the speed of this transition varies considerably.
Usage examples of "cut-off".
When that is the case, there is a cut-off, the individual is thrown back on himself, and he is in prime shape for that psychotic break-away that will turn him into either an essential schizophrenic in a padded cell, or a paranoid screaming slogans at large, in a bughouse without walls.
Their cut-off screams but blended with the hellish a cappella and, above it all, crowing exultantly, skirled the war pipes of the Horseclans.
With an effort of will she got to her feet, hating the fact that he was seeing her barefoot, in a grubby sweat-soaked T-shirt and cut-off jeans.
She took a shower, washed her hair and blew it dry, put on makeup, and pulled on a pair of cut-off jeans, a lime-green T-shirt, and Keds before returning to check on Sara again.
Smooth muscles played along her slender limbs as she moved, obscured only by a pair of cut-off breeches and an improvised halter top.
I expected, and her manner did subtly alter, not to one of unfriendliness, but to a cut-off of intimacy.
You go frontways a way, covering the rear half, then you are cut off from further progress frontwise by a cross wall which separates the front of that floor from the rear well, a flight of 7 descending steps, commencing off this barrier a short distance, carries you down, by half a dozen feet or so, to where a short landing of a few feet brings you to the base of equal ascending stairs, 7 in number, and which bring you right back up again to the front side of that cut-off wall.
She heard the torch fall, heard his high, cut-off scream as the globs enveloped him.
It took weeks of constantly pummeling these cut-off units before they would surrender, and in every case there was little sign of heavy casualties from the air strikes, demonstrating once again that committed and disciplined troops can withstand even sustained air campaigns if they are properly dug in.
In the cut-off world of big bikes, long runs and classy rumbles, this new, state-sanctioned stratification made the Hell's Angels very big.
Their cut-off screams but blended with the hellish a cappella and, above it all, crowing exultantly, skirled the war pipes of the Horseclans.
Some experiments were made by immersing cut-off leaves in solutions of different strengths.
Then, one night, while at an interstate travel plaza, she noticed a young girl dressed in a tank top and cut-off jeans going from rig to rig, soliciting the truckers for sex.
When that is the case, there is a cut-off, the individual is thrown back on himself, and he is in prime shape for that psychotic break-away that will turn him into either an essential schizophrenic in a padded cell, or a paranoid screaming slogans at large, in a bughouse without walls.
As the Dodge cut-off left the Chisholm Trail some ten miles above the Indian trading-post, the next morning we waved good-bye to the old cattle trace and turned on a northwest angle.