cut and paste

See also: cut-and-paste

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

cut and paste (third-person singular simple present cuts and pastes, present participle cutting and pasting, simple past and past participle cut and pasted)

1. To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.
2. (computing) To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.

Usage notes

• In the computing sense, often loosely used instead of copy and paste even when the original data is not deleted.

Derived terms

• cut-and-paste

Translations

to cut and paste

Esperanto: transpoŝigi German: ausschneiden und einfügen Spanish: cortar y pegar, cortapegar Turkish: kes yapıştır

See also

• copy and paste
• clipboard
• copyright
• plagiarism