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• make the cut — (golf) To qualify for the final round(s) of a tournament • • • Main Entry: ↑cut * * * Golf equal or better a required score, thus avoiding elimination from the last two rounds of a four round tournament …   Useful english dictionary

• make the cut —    If you make the cut, you reach a required standard or succeed in passing from one round of a competition to another.     After intensive training, Sarah made the cut and joined the team …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• make the cut — idi inf a) to attain a particular goal; make the grade b) to survive an elimination process, as of a sports team: Only two of the proposals made the cut[/ex] …   From formal English to slang

• make the cut — verb To succeed; to be chosen out of a field of candidates or possibilities. Out of a pool of twenty applicants, only 3 made the cut …   Wiktionary

• cut — or short cut [kut] vt. cut, cutting [ME cutten, kytten < Late OE * cyttan < Scand base seen in Swed dial., Ice kuta, to cut with a knife: the word replaced OE ceorfan (see CARVE), snithan, scieran (see SHEAR) as used in its basic senses] I… …   English World dictionary

• cut — 1 /kVt/ verb past tense and past participle cut present participle cutting 1 DIVIDE WITH KNIFE ETC (T) to divide something into two or more pieces using a sharp tool such as a knife: Do you want me to cut the cake? | The thieves had cut the phone …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• cut — [c]/kʌt / (say kut) verb (cut, cutting) –verb (t) 1. to penetrate, with or as with a sharp edged instrument: he cut his finger. 2. to strike sharply, as with a whip. 3. to wound severely the feelings of. 4. to divide, with or as with a sharp… …  

• cut — v. & n. v. (cutting; past and past part. cut) 1 tr. (also absol.) penetrate or wound with a sharp edged instrument (cut his finger; the knife won t cut). 2 tr. & intr. (often foll. by into) divide or be divided with a knife etc. (cut the bread;… …   Useful english dictionary

• cut — [[t]kʌt[/t]] v. cut, cut•ting, adj. n. 1) to penetrate with or as if with a sharp edged instrument or object 2) to divide with or as if with a sharp edged instrument; sever; carve: to cut a rope[/ex] 3) to detach or remove with or as if with a… …   From formal English to slang

• make the grade — verb To prove satisfactory; to be successful or worthy of merit. In 1916 the famed Van Sweringen brothers bought their first railroad the Nickel Plate. . . . This year, as usual, the tarnished Nickel Plate cannot make the grade. In first seven… …   Wiktionary

• make the team — qualify to join a team (especially a sports team); make the cut, get accepted to a group or club …   English contemporary dictionary