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precut vs pre cut

Both "precut" and "pre cut" are correct, but their usage depends on the context. "Precut" is commonly used as a single word to describe something that has been cut in advance, while "pre cut" is used when the two words need to be separated for clarity or emphasis.

Last updated: March 26, 2024

precut

This is a correct construction commonly used in English.

The word "precut" is used to describe something that has been cut in advance, such as precut vegetables or precut fabric.

Examples:

  • The precut fruit made it easy to prepare the salad quickly.
  • She bought a precut dress pattern to save time on cutting the fabric.
  • The precut wood pieces were ready for assembly.
  • The store sells precut sandwiches for convenience.
  • I prefer using precut parchment paper for baking.
  • Said he bought a case of it, precut.
  • coli in precut fruit and vegetables (ready-to-eat) and in unpasteurised fruit and vegetable juices (ready-to-eat):
  • Precut fruit and vegetables (ready-to-eat)
  • Raviole du Dauphiné are sold in sheets of 48 precut pieces (6 × 8) when fresh (packed in a controlled environment or unpacked) and in separate pieces when frozen.
  • Bobby? I need you to recut these and add some more...
  • They will not be easy to move, unless I recut them.
  • Recut, they will have a fraction of their worth.
  • I had to recut it when I lost weight.
  • They can't recut my film.
  • I convinced Dad to let me recut the commercial.
  • You know, the other route is to recut it as a two-parter for the TV series.
  • - I think you want to recut the commercial - That's Todd Exner, damage control.
  • We wouldn't have had to bring the prints back from all over the US of that reel and recut it...
  • Well, I'm putting together a last-minute town hall meeting, and I need some footage recut.
  • Unset, recut, with the platinum melted, stones and gems are worth only 25% to me.
  • Listen. All l need right now is somebody to recut this footage into a promotional film for tomorrow.
  • Suited methods have already been described, see D. Precht and J. Molkentin: Quantitative triglyceride analysis using short capillary columns, Chrompack News 4, 16-17 (1993).
  • If you really want to prect the house, a guard dog is the best way to go.
  • So I got her in and had Bummy put the set up again and reshot the scene, recut the picture.
  • And unless I somehow... manage to recut the stone... it does look like I'm slated to go out of here without a dime.

Alternatives:

  • pre-cut
  • pre-sliced
  • pre-chopped
  • pre-packaged
  • pre-assembled

pre cut

This is a correct construction commonly used in English.

When clarity or emphasis is needed, the two words "pre cut" can be used instead of the single word "precut."

Examples:

  • The fabric was pre cut to the exact measurements.
  • She decided to pre cut the vegetables for the stir-fry.
  • The pre cut pieces of paper were neatly arranged on the table.
  • He prefers to buy pre cut fruit for convenience.
  • The pre cut wood panels were ready for installation.
  • To open, tear carefully starting from the pre-cut notch.
  • France, Germany and Japan only include pre-cut-off debts and so ignore a significant portion of debt.
  • "Camel-back" - pre-cut lengths of material which has been extruded to give the required cross section profile and subsequently fitted cold to the prepared casing.
  • This is not compulsory if the cheese is sold in pre-cut and pre-packaged form as described in section 4.5. In that case, 'Edam Holland' must be displayed on the packaging.
  • I'm thinking it has something to do with, like, a pre-cut floor and a timer.
  • The pie filling is divided into billets and placed into the pie base and the pre-cut or sheeted pastry lid is placed over the pie and crimped to seal.
  • The sachet containing IONSYS should be opened starting at the pre-cut notch, then by carefully tearing along the top of the sachet.
  • To open the sachet, start tearing at the pre-cut notch, then continue to tear open carefully along the top of the sachet.
  • The pie filling is divided into billets and placed into the pie base and the pre-cut or sheeted pastry lid is placed over the pie and crimped to seal.
  • no exudate, either in stored muscles or in pre-cut pieces,
  • The beef and pork are first pre-cut and then finely minced in a mincer or chopped up finely in a cutting machine.
  • E. coli in pre-cut fruit and vegetables (ready-to-eat) and in unpasteurised fruit and vegetable juices (ready-to-eat):
  • Experience has also shown that operators often have difficulties in applying the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards labelling in outlets for the sale of non-pre-packaged cut meats to the final consumer.
  • Operators who display non-pre-packaged cut meats together for sale each day shall record, with the date, the approval numbers of the slaughterhouses in which the animals were slaughtered and the cutting plants in which the carcases were cut up.
  • Subject the laboratory test sample to the pre-treatment and then cut the strip transversely into four equal lengths and superimpose them.
  • For pre-packaged poultry cuts, the tolerable negative error for nominal weights in excess of 2400 g should be the same as for nominal weights of between 1100 g and 2400 g.
  • The pre-classifier 50 % cut point particle diameter shall be between 2,5 μm and 10 μm at the volumetric flow rate selected for sampling particle number emissions.
  • Pre-financing, accounts payable and cut-off procedures
  • We agreed on the need to cut down on pre-prepared speeches and pre-cooked and usually over-boiled chairmen's statements, which no one ever reads.
  • My pre-school teacher was, like, have your mom cut out letters so I could hold 'em when I was in the bath.

Alternatives:

  • pre-sliced
  • pre-chopped
  • pre-packaged
  • pre-assembled
  • pre-prepared

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