cutaway
English
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edit- (noun only): cut-away
Etymology
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edit- IPA(key): /ˈkʌtəweɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
editcutaway (not comparable)
- (computer graphics) Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.
- 2004 January, CADalyst:
- While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.
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Noun
editcutaway (plural cutaways)
- (television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
- 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club[1]:
- the director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montage cutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor.
- (television) A cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.
- 2004 October 18, The New Yorker:
- Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]
- A coat with a tapered frontline.
- A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior
- 1959 March, “New Reading on Railways: The Railwayman's Diesel Manual. By William F. Bolton. G. H. Lake. 7s. 6d.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:
- [...] The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, and cutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed.
- (music) An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.
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editthe interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else
a cut to a shot of person listening to a speaker
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diagram or model
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indentation in a guitar's body, adjacent to the neck
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