What does "cutaway" mean?

A men's coat with the front cut back away from the waist, as worn on formal occasions.

What is a synonym for "cutaway"?

Common synonyms include: cutaway drawing, cutaway model, morning coat, morning coat.

//ˈkʌtəweɪ// adj, noun

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Noun

1
A men's coat with the front cut back away from the waist, as worn on formal occasions.
"Besides the broad-brimmed hat, he was distinguished by a spotted tie, a pair of seedy check trousers rather baggy in the seat, and a cut-away coat, much too tight for him."
2
a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees wordnet
3
A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior.
"[...] The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, and cutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed."
4
a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts wordnet
5
A brief shot that temporarily takes the viewer away from the principal action, especially to show a reaction, illustration etc.; an instance of moving to such a shot.
"Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]"

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6
An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.
7
A guitar having a cutaway.
8
Short for cutaway bog Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of
"Thousands of hectares of cutaway are now under squares of grass and conifers, but by the 1990s it was obvious that most of the total area was suitable only for "non-productive" uses."

Adjective

1
Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior. not-comparable
"While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object."

"Please stop finding horrifying implications in my cutaway jokes."

Deverbal from cut away.

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