Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

Cutting hair tends to take off more hair than trimming hair does.

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 off vines is not sufficient for an immediate kill.

: Cutting his hands off, down in Hell.

During his time off, he starred in his own talk show segment on Raw entitled The Cutting Edge, dubbing himself the " Rated-R Superstar ".

Cutting off the end of the barrel removes the choke, which generally only extends about two inches ( about 5 cm ) inward from the muzzle.

* Cutting off of larger pieces of tissue with a snare device ( e. g. polyps, endoscopic mucosal resection )

Cutting off Brahma's fifth head made him guilty of the crime of killing a Brahmin, and as a result, he was forced to carry around the head for years and roam as Bhikshatana, a mendicant, until he had been absolved of the sin.

* Cutting others off in a lane, or deliberately preventing someone from merging.

Cutting down his pace and the length of his run up, Lillee now concentrated on moving the ball off the seam with an occasional faster or slower ball for variation.

* Cutting small pieces off something

Cutting himself off from Charles, he flees to Cyprus where he awaits a ship that will take him to Lebanon.

Cutting off subventions would make it even harder for ESF to maintain its status as a good quality international school foundation.

Cutting this off at a late stage of development (" purple eye stage ") and discarding it reduces the mite load on the colony.

The Cutting Halo does have drawbacks, however ; a Baltan alien was able to deflect a Halo with his barrier, Gubira was lucky enough to catch a second Halo on his nose rather than be sliced by it, and Keelar was just as lucky to catch a third Halo with his tail.

* Cutting tools, such as the knife, scythe or sickle, are wedge-shaped implements that produce a shearing force along a narrow face.

* Cutting tools: Cutting tools include various milling cutters such as face mills, shell mills, endmills, and form cutters ; various drills, reamers, taps, countersinks, counterbores, and core drills ; various turning tools, form tools, and threading tools ; various grinding wheels distinguished by their geometry, bond, grit size, and compound.

Image: cutting_devine_hill. jpg |< center > Cutting made by convict workers who would hammer a crowbar-like ' jumperbar ' into the rock, fill the hole with gunpowder, plug the hole and ignite it ; visible are metre-long ' half holes ' that remained after the rock face was blown away

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

Cutting cards is usually a prelude to a game, but it can be a game unto itself.

Cutting tax rates can increase revenue if the tax rate is beyond the revenue-maximizing tax rate ( if the tax rate is to the right of the peak ), and decrease revenue if the tax rate is to the left of the peak.

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 a Möbius strip along the center line with a pair of scissors yields one long strip with two full twists in it, rather than two separate strips ; the result is not a Möbius strip.

" However, the phrase is on the cover of the 1967 self-published edition, after the title, in " Presentation of ... SCUM ( Society for Cutting Up Men ) ....", where it is not an expansion of a title word.

Cutting green trees for fuelwood has contributed to the decline of this species, and illegal harvesting of green trees from public lands is a continuing problem.

**: Argument: Cutting people is a crime.

**: Problem: Cutting people is not a crime in certain situations.

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

* Cutting is by teeth on the edge of a thin blade

Phipps Cutting Picnic Area on the Bylong Valley Way is an entry point for hiking

New York State Route 426 is a major north-south route through the town and intersects New York State Route 474, an east-west highway at Cutting.

Weatherford is known as the Cutting Horse Capital of the World.

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

Cutting of the skin for cosmetic purposes is not to be confused with self-harm, which is also referred to by the euphemism " cutting.

; Skin removal / skinning: Cutting in single lines produces relatively thin scars, and skin removal is a way to get a larger area of scar tissue.

He also co-presented the highly successful Radio 1 comedy talk show Loose Talk with Kevin Day, and is also a founder member of the London Comedy Store's hard hitting Cutting Edge show.

Cutting the hair is also restricted during the 30-day mourning period after the death of a close relative, known in Hebrew as the Shloshim ( thirty ).

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

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 ( 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.

* Cutting agents, often used to adulterate ( or " cut ") illicit drugs-for example, shoe polish in hashish or amphetamines in ecstasy

* 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 ).