| cost cutting | the act of cutting costs |
price cutting
price cut | cutting the price of merchandise to one lower than the usual or advertised price |
cut
cutting
cutting off | the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends, the barber gave him a good cut |
| cutting thinning | the act of diluting something, the cutting of whiskey with water, the thinning of paint with turpentine |
| cut cutting | the act of cutting something into parts, his cuts were skillful, his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess |
| cut cutting | the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge, his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels |
abscission
cutting off | the act of cutting something off |
ablation
extirpation
cutting out
excision | surgical removal of a body part or tissue |
| cut cutting | the division of a deck of cards before dealing, he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal, the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual |
| carving cutting | removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape |
film editing
cutting | the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
acetate disk
phonograph recording disk | a disk coated with cellulose acetate |
audio CD
audio compact disc | compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) |
| brake disk | a disk or plate that is fixed to the wheel, pressure is applied to it by the brake pads |
CD-R
compact disc recordable
CD-WO
compact disc write-once | a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-ROM
compact disc read-only memory | a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system), a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user |
chopping board
cutting board | a wooden board where meats or vegetables can be cut |
compact disk
compact disc
CD | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record, played back by a laser |
compact-disk burner
CD burner | recording equipment for making compact disks |
cutter
cutlery cutting tool | a cutting implement, a tool for cutting |
| cutting implement | a tool used for cutting or slicing |
| cutting room | a room where films or tapes are edited (by cutting out unwanted parts) |
disk
disc | a flat circular plate |
| disk access | memory access to the computer disk on which information is stored |
disk brake
disc brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake pads |
| disk cache | a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk |
| disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
| disk controller | (computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk drive |
disk drive
disc drive
hard drive
Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
diskette
floppy
floppy disk | a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit, used to store data or programs for a microcomputer, floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price |
disk harrow
disc harrow | a harrow with a series of disks set on edge at an angle |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
knife edge
cutting edge | the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife |
magnetic disk
magnetic disc
disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
optical disk
optical disc | a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface, is read with a laser that scans the surface |
phonograph record
phonograph recording
record
disk disc platter | sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove, used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove |
| RAM disk | (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors, access to a RAM disk is very fast but the data it contains is lost when the system is turned off |
| Rayleigh disk | an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread, when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity |
| removable disk | a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive, removal prevents unauthorized use |
circularity
disk shape | the roundness of a -dimensional figure |
intervertebral disc
intervertebral disk | a fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) |
blind spot
optic disc
optic disk | the point where the optic nerve enters the retina, not sensitive to light |
vanguard
forefront
cutting edge | the position of greatest importance or advancement, the leading position in any movement or field, the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England, the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy |
| disk file | (computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label |
DOS
disk operating system | an operating system that is on a disk |
MS-DOS
Microsoft disk operating system | an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers |
clipping
newspaper clipping
press clipping
cutting
press cutting | an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine, he searched through piles of letters and clippings |
| disk error | error resulting from malfunction of a magnetic disk |
disk pack
disc pack | (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device |