cutter
part of speech
noun (a cutter, cutters)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cutter is a tool or machine used for cutting, like a pastry cutter, wire cutters or a paper cutter. tree →
2) A cutter is also a person whose job is to cut things, like cloth or stone. tree →
3) A cutter is a small fast boat or a ship used by the coast guard. tree →
sense in the lessons
Everyday: cookie or pastry cutters press shapes out of dough; pizza cutters roll to slice. In art and design lessons, craft knives and box cutters are very sharp and only used with an adult; always cut away from your body on a cutting mat. In maths, shape cutters help make shapes for symmetry and fractions. Phrases: «cookie cutter» (also means all the same, not original), «wire cutters», «box cutter», «pizza cutter».
examples
- We used a star-shaped cutter for the biscuits. tree →
- Dad cut the wire with wire cutters. tree →
- Only use the craft cutter with a teacher. tree →
- Roll the pizza cutter across the pizza. tree →
- The coast guard cutter sped across the bay. tree →
- The cutter at the stone yard shaped the stone. tree →
- The houses all looked cookie-cutter, exactly the same. tree →
- Cut away from your fingers when using a cutter. tree →
- Long, long ago, there lived an old bamboo wood-cutter. tree →
note
Countable: «a cutter, cutters»; «wire cutters» is used in the plural like «scissors». Double t: «cutter» (cut + t + er). Box cutters and craft knives are dangerous; they are not toys.
In the corpora
- When one person cuts and the other chooses, the cutter has a reason to cut fairly.
- Razors, craft knives and box cutters are for grown-ups only, because their blades are very sharp and slip easily.
- A grown-up opens parcels with a craft knife or box cutter, because the blades slip easily.
- "One cuts, the other chooses" is fair because the cutter has every reason to make the two pieces equal.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cutter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.