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# cutter

«cutter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tool or machine used for cutting, like a pastry cutter…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#m1)

2) A cutter is also a person whose job is to cut things, like cloth or stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#m2)

3) A cutter is a small fast boat or a ship used by the coast guard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x1)
- Dad cut the wire with wire cutters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x2)
- Only use the craft cutter with a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x3)
- Roll the pizza cutter across the pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x4)
- The coast guard cutter sped across the bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x5)
- The cutter at the stone yard shaped the stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x6)
- The houses all looked cookie-cutter, exactly the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x7)
- Cut away from your fingers when using a cutter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x8)
- Long, long ago, there lived an old bamboo wood-cutter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/14/)
- [Razors, craft knives and box cutters are for grown-ups only, because their blades are very sharp and slip easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/7/)
- [A grown-up opens parcels with a craft knife or box cutter, because the blades slip easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/9/)
- ["One cuts, the other chooses" is fair because the cutter has every reason to make the two pieces equal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cutter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cutter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.