| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incision |
Synonyms: |
carving, chip, chop, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, furrow, gash, graze, groove, intersection, kerf, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, passage, penetration, pierce, prick, rabbet, rent, rip, scarification, sculpture, section, shave, slash, slit, slot, snip, stab, stroke, trench, trim, wound |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
Synonyms: |
amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | furrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
Synonyms: |
channel, corrugation, crease, crinkle, crow's-foot, dike, fluting, fold, groove, gutter, hollow, line, plica, rabbet, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rut, seam, trench, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | groove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | channel, indentation |
Synonyms: |
canal, corrugation, crease, crimp, cut, cutting, depression, ditch, flute, fluting, furrow, gouge, gutter, hollow, incision, notch, pucker, rabbet, rut, scallop, score, scratch, slit, trench, valley |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | empty out; make concave |
Synonyms: |
channel, chase, corrugate, dent, dig, dish, ditch, excavate, furrow, gorge, groove, indent, notch, pit, rabbet, remove, rut, scoop, shovel, trench |
Antonyms: |
fill, make convex, raise |
| Main Entry: | indent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a space; push in slightly |
Synonyms: |
bash, cave in, cut, dent, depress, dint, hollow, jag, mark, nick, notch, pink, pit, rabbet, rut, scallop, score, serrate |
Antonyms: |
flush |
| Main Entry: | notch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indentation |
Synonyms: |
cleft, cut, gap, gash, groove, incision, indent, indenture, mark, mill, nick, nock, rabbet, rut, score, scratch |
| Main Entry: | rut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | groove, indentation |
Synonyms: |
furrow, gouge, hollow, pothole, rabbet, score, track, trench, trough |
Antonyms: |
closing |
| Main Entry: | groove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
bisulcate, bisulcous, canaliculated, cannelured, corduroy, corrugated, dadoed, fluted, foiled, furrowed, glyphic, gouged, lirate, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rugulose, striate, striated, sulcated, trisulcate, vandyked
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| Concept: | Notch. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple., embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke; depression; jag.
-verbs
notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scollop, scallop, crenulate, vandyke.
-adjectives
notched; crenate, crenated, pinked; denate, denated; denticulate, denticulated; toothed, palmated, serrated.
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