English Dictionary

cut-out

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkʌt.aʊt/

名詞

アメリカ英語

A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting. / A piece cut out of something. / A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.

日本語の意味

切り取られた部分、穴、または切り抜きによって生じた空間 / 何かから切り抜かれた一部分 / 広告や宣伝目的で展示される、実物大の独立型の固体の印刷物（スタンディ）

The carpenter showed me the precise cut-out where the pipe will fit.

大工は配管が収まる正確な切り欠きを見せてくれた。

意味（1）

A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.

a dress with cut-out sides

意味（2）

A piece cut out of something.

意味（3）

A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.

The sentry didn't answer. Taking a closer look at him I realised he wasn't a real sentry but a cut-out sentry, guarding not a real but a cut-out border.

意味（4）

A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.

A cut-out, or intermediary, forms the link between two agents or between an agent and the outside world. He may know very little about the organization and just carry messages, or he may be a liaison officer who is able to answer questions and take decisions; but the important thing is that he should not undertake any other subversive activity. […] A cut-out should be able to contact inconspicuously each of the two agents between whom he is the link.

意味（5）

(computing) Clip art.

意味（6）

(electronics) Any of several devices that halt the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.

The automatic magnetic cut out, opens the circuit between battery and generator when the generator is running slow or engine is stopped, also referred to as the vibrator type of cut out.

意味（7）

(telegraphy) A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.

意味（8）

(US) A railway cutting.

意味（9）

(US, agriculture) The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.

When the stray men have worked the herd, it is drove off a ways and turned loose. The calves in the cut-out groups are then branded and turned loose with their mothers; the strays are thrown into the stray herd or day herd.

cut-outs （ plural ）