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Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms
cut

to remove material from the document you are editing and place it into a holding area.

See also paste , clipboard , copy
Dictionary of Business Terms
cut

  1. (v.) stop (as in ending the filming of a movie scene).
  2. (n.) point of pass/fail, as in making the cut, or being cut from further consideration.
  3. (v.) in electronic media, to intentionally remove from a document. In most applications, cut material is placed on the clipboard and can be pasted multiple times; the Cut command thus differs from Delete, which removes the material entirely.

Dictionary of Marketing Terms
cut

  1. band on a long-playing record.
  2. particular kind of photoengraving used as a printing plate , derived from the term woodcut .
  3. command given by a film or television director to stop action or production.
  4. delete portions of filmed or videotaped material, or editorial and advertising copy, so that the material can fit into a particular time period or space.
  5. immediate change from one scene to another, as distinguished from a fade (see fade in ; fade out ) or dissolve .

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paste

to transfer material from a holding area into the document you are editing. In Windows and Macintosh environments, the keyboard shortcut for paste is Ctrl-V.

clipboard

on the Macintosh and in Windows and OS/2, a holding area to which information can be copied in order to transfer it from one application program to another. For instance, the Clipboard can be used to transfer text from a word processor into a drawing program.

The contents of the Clipboard vanish when the computer is turned off. Also, in most software, only one item at a time can be on the Clipboard; the next cut or copy command will replace the old item with a new one.

copy

  1. to duplicate information in another place, leaving the original unchanged. In many spreadsheets, editors, and drawing programs, copy means either of two things:
    1. to copy material from one place to another;
    2. to copy material from the document being edited into a holding area, from which you can then "paste" it elsewhere. See cut; paste; Clipboard.
  2. a command, under DOS, OS/2, andWindows, that makes a copy of a disk file. For example, the command
    COPY PGM.SRC PGMC2.SRC
    takes the old file (PGM.SRC) and makes a copy of it under the name PGMC2.SRC. Two other examples are as follows:
    COPY A:*.BAS C:
    copies all files on drive A whose names end in .BAS onto drive C;
    COPY A:*.* C:
    copies all files from drive A onto drive C. The asterisk acts as a wild card, matching any filename (see wild card).

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