ALL meanings of cut and paste
cut and paste
C c - abbreviation Technical meaning of CUT AND PASTE copy and paste 3
- noun cut and paste a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document 3
- adjective cut and paste made or composed by piecing together parts that already exist, often in a way that suggests haste or lack of inspiration 3
- noun Definition of cut and paste in Technology (text) (Or "cut and paste", after the paper, scissors and glue method of document production) The system supported by most document editing applications (e.g. text editors) and most operating systems that allows you to select a part of the document and then save it in a temporary buffer (known variously as the "clipboard", "cut buffer", "kill ring"). A "copy" leaves the document unchanged whereas a "cut" deletes the selected part. A "paste" inserts the data from the clipboard at the current position in the document (usually replacing any currently selected data). This may be done more than once, in more than one position and in different documents. More sophisticated operating systems support copy and paste of different data types between different applications, possibly with automatic format conversion, e.g from rich text to plain ASCII. 1
- verbal expression cut and paste text: move 1
- adjective cut and paste assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings. 1
- verb cut and paste To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents. 0
- verb cut and paste (computing) to delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or different one. 0