Cutting is the division or separation of a physical object with an edged instrument.
Cutting or cuttings may also refer to:
Entertainment
- Film editing
- Cut (music), a musical and deejaying technique
- The act of competing in or winning a cutting contest, a type of musical battle
Human behaviour
- Cutting in line, the act of entering a queue at any position other than the end
- Slashing (crime), a method of assault
- A form of suicide and self-harm
Sport and leisure
- Cutting (sport), an equestrian event
- Cutting (cards), a common practice in card games to prevent cheating
- Weight cutting, the practice of rapid weight loss prior to a sporting competition
- Cutting in, the act of taking a dance partner from another
- A bodybuilding strategy
Transport
- Cutting (automobile)
- Cutting (transportation), an excavation to make way for a transport route
- A form of naval boarding, popular during the age of sail
Other uses
- Cutting (surname), a surname
- Cutting, Moselle, France
- Cutting (plant), a technique for plant propagation
- Cutting horse, horse trained to cut cattle
- The act of using a cutting agent to dilute drugs
See also
- Cut (disambiguation)
- Cutter (disambiguation)
- Tribology