CUTOVER

Etymology

Adjective

cutover (not comparable)

Having been cleared of valuable timber.

Noun

cutover (countable and uncountable, plural cutovers)

An area of cutover land.

The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.

(by extension) Any process of quickly replacing a machine so as to minimize downtime.

Anagrams

• couvert, overcut

Source: Wiktionary



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20 June 2025

MODEST

(adjective) marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; “a modest apartment”; “too modest to wear his medals”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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