cutting in WordNet English dictionary

1. unpleasantly cold and damp
   "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
   bleak  cutting  raw 
   
2. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
   "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
   cutting  keen  knifelike  piercing  stabbing  lancinate  lancinating 
   
3. (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
   "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
   cutting  edged  stinging 
   

1. removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
   carving  cutting 
   
2. an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
   "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"
   clipping  newspaper clipping  press clipping  cutting  press cutting 
   
3. the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
   "the barber gave him a good cut"
   cut  cutting  cutting off 
   
4. the act of cutting something into parts
   "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"
   cut  cutting 
   
5. the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
   "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels"
   cut  cutting 
   
6. 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"
   cut  cutting 
   
7. the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
   film editing  cutting 
   
8. the act of diluting something
   "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine"
   cutting  thinning 
   
9. a piece cut off from the main part of something
   cutting 
   
10. a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
    cutting  slip