English Dictionary

cut-out

/ˈkʌt.aʊt/

noun

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.

I used a cut-out to make a stencil for my art project.

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.