1Cut (wood or stone) across its main grain or axis.
横切，横向切割（木头或石头）
they cross-cut the timber before its removal
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Her left knee buckled like a tree being cross-cut at its base.
Then all you need to do is cross-cut the lengths.
The resulting mixture is cut into strips, then crosscut into cubes.
I then crosscut the shelf to the width of the shadowbox and attached the bat to the shelf using galvanized wire.
Use a jigsaw to crosscut the board adjacent to a joist.
2Alternate (one sequence) with another when editing a film.
（电影编辑时）交叉（或平行）剪接
the opening sequence cross-cuts the reluctant confessions of a young wife with the hippy's arrival
no objectthey were cross-cutting from one story to another
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Some sequences are crosscut with a variety of short scenes, while others bring the camera in for close-up views.
The director crosscuts between them.
The new film crosscuts between locations repeatedly.
Here, the visual focus crosscuts between two sites.
He then cross-cuts to aerial shots of the vehicles.
It's stunning, as the material is crosscut - one story feeding into and around the other - and hearing 180 degree opposite accounts of what happened that day.
At precisely this moment the film crosscuts back to the sickroom.
The filmmaker cross-cuts his desperate, but primal, art making with their desperate, but primal, lovemaking.
He constantly cross-cuts from pursuers to pursued to keep the pace up.
This scene, set in the Hong Kong girl's hotel room, is crosscut with two other scenes in what, for this film, is a burst of quickly edited action.
The opening sequence features a blade being sharpened on stone, quickly cross-cutting to a chaotic chase in which a gang of desperadoes attempt to capture a rogue chicken.
The work cross-cuts between artificially smooth tracking and frozen-frame shots.
He crosscuts their obsessive stories with hilarious footage from circuses and old sci-fi films.
Slow motion, rapidly crosscut with regular speed footage, gives a sense of the breakneck pace of battle.
He cross-cuts their story with the tale of ‘boarded-out’ orphans sent to the Western Isles.
All the show does is cross-cut frantically.
All of these conflicts come to a head in a colorful finale that crosscuts between a final football match and his traditional wedding.
The novel is a love story and he begins to crosscut scenes of the developing relationship between Alex and Emma with those of Adam and Emma.
She chose to cross-cut the president's remarks with news commentary and parliamentary footage.
nounˈkrɒskʌt
1A diagonal cut, especially one across the main grain or axis of wood or stone.
（尤指对木头或石头的）横切
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A professional-quality miter box or, preferably, a 10-inch power miter saw are required for the precision miters and crosscuts.
For crosscuts up to 22 1/2 in., flip the square around and place its long blade against the saw shoe.
2An instance of alternating between two or more sequences when editing a film.
（电影编辑中的）交叉（或平行）剪接
movies today are all cross-cuts and violent effects
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This line is followed by a quick cross-cut to Bruno's hands.
Incessant and intrusive editing, numerous jump- and cross-cuts and confounding time shifts, work to disorient the viewer.
His words work like cross-cuts in a movie.
A series of crosscuts to simultaneous scenes bodes ill.
Intercut with images of a world of ice-covered trees along with numerous other rapid cross-cuts, the result is bizarre and disorienting in the extreme.
The frantic zooms, the crazed crosscuts, the up-the-nostrils close-ups, the rollercoaster spin shots; it never stops, for two agonising hours.
adjectiveˈkrɒskʌt
(of a file) having two sets of grooves crossing each other diagonally.