Cutting plotters are often relied upon for precision cutting of graphics produced by wide-format inkjet printers, however-for example to produce window or car graphics, or shaped stickers.

Cutting the wedding cake is often turned into a ritual, complete with sharing a symbolic bite of the cake in a rite that harks back to the pagan confarreatio weddings in ancient Rome.

Cutting was often used in traditional Japanese origami, but modern innovations in technique have made the use of cuts unnecessary.

Cutting off one's hair is often associated with religious faith: Catholic nuns often cut their hair very short, and men who joined Catholic monastic orders in the eighth century adopted what was known as the tonsure, which involved shaving the tops of their heads and leaving a ring of hair around the bald crown.

Cutting trees with the highest value and leaving those with lower value, often diseased or malformed trees, is referred to as high grading.

Cutting fluid is often pumped to the cutting site to cool and lubricate the cut and to wash away the resulting swarf.

# Cutting circular holes, often in fan-like designs

* Cutting open the bitten area, an action often taken prior to suction, is not recommended since it causes further damage and increases the risk of infection.

Cutting, mowing, digging and some herbicide treatments, especially in early to mid growing season, fail to curb knotweed growth and in fact often stimulate the production of shoots from latent buds dispersed on the root crown or rhizomes.

Cutting out a slot, often with the use of a router, and situating the box into it with an epoxy or resin at the end of the shaping process.

These " illusory " objects can be used to create tactile " virtual objects " ( see the MIT Technology Review article The Cutting Edge of Haptics ).

*: When Alien Baltan II's barrier deflected Ultraman's Cutting Halo, Ultraman used this eye beam to neutralize the barrier.

* Cutting mill, a device commonly used in laboratories for the preliminary size reduction of materials

" Cutting off the nose to spite the face " is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem: " Don't cut off your nose to spite your face " is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.

* Cutting ( plant ), means of plant propagation used by gardeners

Cutting fluid may also take the form of a paste or gel when used for some applications, in particular hand operations such as drilling and tapping.

The method was used by the Qieyun ( 切韻, " Cutting Rhymes "), a Chinese rhyme dictionary published in 601 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

* Cutting direction: While almost all western knives are used to push and cut, almost all Japanese knives are used pull and cut instead.

Cutting shield used for the New Elbe Tunnel.

Cutting fluid is commonly used to cool the drill bit, increase tool life, increase speeds and feeds, increase the surface finish, and aid in ejecting chips.

Cutting fluid is sometimes used to ease this problem and to prolong the tool's life by cooling and lubricating the tip and chip flow.

Cutting fluids are not used or needed.

Cutting tools made of high speed steel allowed steel rather than wrought iron to be used for parts.

Cutting portraits, generally in profile, from black card became popular in the mid-18th century, though the term “ silhouette ” was seldom used until the early decades of the 19th century, and the tradition has continued under this name into the 21st century.

Cutting the channel proved to be a far greater problem as the tools available to Li Bing at the time, prior to the invention of gunpowder, were unable to penetrate the hard rock of the mountain so he used a combination of fire and water to heat and cool the rocks until they cracked and could be removed.

Cutting speed may be defined as the rate ( or speed ) that the material moves past the cutting edge of the tool, irrespective of the machining operation used – the surface speed.

* Brush hook: Cutting tool used to clear brush, longer than a machete, usually with a heavy, solid, curved blade bolted to the end of an arm's-length handle.

* Oxyacetylene Cutting Torch: A commonly used torch that burns oxygen and acetylene to produce a very hot flam.

Cutting from underneath a suspended log, called " underbucking ", might also have been used if binding became a big problem.

Cutting dies made of steel are used in the shoe production to cut uppers from leather, textile or synthetics.

Cutting shield used for the Elbe Tunnel

The following tales were used in HBO's Tales From The Crypt television series: " The Man Who Was Death " ( issue # 17 ), " Mute Witness to Murder " (# 18 ), " Fatal Caper " (# 20 ), " The Thing From The Grave " (# 22 ), " Last Respects " (# 23 ), " Judy, You're Not Yourself Today " (# 25 ), " Loved to Death " (# 25 ), " Well Cooked Hams " (# 27 ), " The Ventriloquist's Dummy " (# 28 ), " Korman's Kalamity " ( re-titling of " Kamen's Calamity ", issue # 31 ), " Cutting Cards " (# 32 ), " Lower Berth " (# 33 ), " None But The Lonely Heart " (# 33 ), " Oil's Well That Ends Well " (# 34 ), " Curiosity Killed " (# 36 ), " Only Skin Deep " (# 38 ), " Mournin ' Mess " (# 38 ), " Undertaking Palor " (# 39 ), " Food For Thought " (# 40 ), " Operation Friendship " (# 41 ), " Cold War " (# 43 ), " Forever Ambergris " (# 44 ), " The Switch " (# 45 ) and " Blind Alleys " (# 46 ).

Cutting plotter knives cut into a piece of material ( paper, mylar or vinyl ) that is lying on the flat surface area of the plotter.

This is followed by a Cutting Halo that divides in two to cut the suspended object into thirds.

Cutting one strand allows the part of the molecule on one side of the cut to rotate around the uncut strand, thereby reducing stress from too much or too little twist in the helix.

Cutting the dough releases the gas in the bubbles that are cut, but the gas in the rest of the dough cannot escape.

Cutting exploits the ability of plants to grow adventitious roots ( i. e. root material that can generate from a location other than the existing or primary root system, as in from a leaf or cut stem ) under certain conditions.

Cutting is a compressive and shearing phenomenon, and occurs only when the total stress generated by the cutting implement exceeds the ultimate strength of the material of the object being cut.

Cutting a branch beyond where growth will occur will prevent the plant from forming a callus over the cut surface, which in turn will invite insects and infection.

Cutting the honeysuckle to within 5 – 10 cm of the ground and then applying glyphosate has proven to be more effective, provided that the mixture is rather concentrated ( 20 – 25 %) and is applied immediately after making the cut.

Sheehans Rd was originally the end of White Hill Rd and when a detour was made, it was known as Wiseman's Cutting as it cut through James Wiseman's land.

On “ Cutting ”, the experience of self damage takes the form of the music itself reflecting both pain and its overcoming, encapsulating the theme as though it is itself made of music, her tempos driving in sharp contrasting time like a cut.

Cutting torches can cut very large sections of steel with little effort.

Cutting uses sharp blades to cut the rough solid pieces into smaller ones.

Cutting fibre cement cladding sheeting usually requires a mechanised saw or metal hand shears and sheets can be cut to size in three ways:

Cutting tools are tools designed to cut material or objects.