cuttings
- 1Plural of cutting.
The gardener rooted dozens of cuttings in trays of damp sand.
The railway threads through deep cuttings carved into the hillside.
Note
A plural that can point in several unrelated directions, because every countable use of cutting takes the -s. It can mean slips rooted from a plant, clippings saved from a newspaper, abridged passages prepared for performance, or, in British usage, the trench dug for a railway, canal or road. Even the action sense can be counted, so cuttings may name separate acts of cutting as well as what they produce. Surrounding words usually settle which is meant.
cuttings is a form of cutting
cutting, noun: The action or process of using a blade to divide or sever something. Full entry
- Forms
- cuttingcuttings plural
- Spelling
- cutting → cuttings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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