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  2. Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face - Wikipedia

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    Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive overreaction 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.

  3. Logogriph - Wikipedia

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    The term logogriph is also used for the puzzle type in which a pair of anagrams must be deduced from synonyms [1] (e.g. YELLOW FISH would lead to the answer AMBER BREAM). The following example of a logogriph created by Lord Macaulay refers to the word COD: Cut off my head, how singular I act! Cut off my tail, and plural I appear.

  4. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    This fielder is said to "cut off" the throw or to be the "cut-off man". This tactic increases accuracy over long distances and shortens the time required to get a ball to a specific place. It also gives the cut-off man the choice of putting out a trailing runner trying to advance on the throw if he thinks it impossible to make the play at home.

  5. Glossary of cricket terms - Wikipedia

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    The term flight is a near synonym. [5] Can be combined with top spin or back spin to deceive the batter on the length of the delivery, or with off spin or leg spin to give the ball more time to drift. All out The end of an innings due to the batting side running out of wickets, usually because ten of the eleven batters have been dismissed.

  6. Cutoff - Wikipedia

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    Cut-off (electronics), a state of negligible conduction. Cutoff (metalworking), a piercing operation used to cut a workpiece from the stock. Cutoff (meteorology), a high- or low-pressure system stuck in place due to a lack of steering currents. Cutoff (physics), a threshold value for a quantity.

  7. Decapitation - Wikipedia

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    They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses. The blood-stained spoils they hand over to their attendants and striking up a paean and singing a song of victory; and they nail up these first fruits upon their houses, just as do those who lay low wild animals in certain kinds of hunting.

  8. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    Turn off generator field (or notify the ground employee, depending on company-specific rules and locomotive type, that protection is provided). [1] [2] 10 wheeler (US) The 10-wheeler wheel arrangement A steam locomotive with a 4-6-0 wheel arrangement [3] 241 (US) Procession of a train past a stop signal with verbal permission from the ...

  9. Kareth - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew term kareth ("cutting off" Hebrew: כָּרֵת, ), or extirpation, is a form of punishment for sin, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and later Jewish writings. The typical Biblical phrase used is "that soul shall be cut off from its people" or a slight variation of this. [1]