Cut
Cut noun - An individual part of a process, series, or ranking.
Usage example: one of the new recruits is a cut above the rest in intelligence
Notch is a synonym for cut in incision topic. In some cases you can use "Notch" instead the word "Cut" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like scratch, sever, slit.
Notch
Notch noun - An individual part of a process, series, or ranking.
Usage example: sales for the album increased, and it moved up another notch on the music charts
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Synonyms for Notch
Cut is a synonym for notch in action topic. You can use "Cut" instead the word "Notch" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as level, indentation, chop, nick.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| full | full cut | full notch |
| nice | nice cut | nice notch |
| top | top cut | top notch |
| single | single cut | single notch |
| Other adjectives: huge, little, potential, new, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Cut-and-Paste Environments: In the first game, many floors that show up in one difficulty level get turned up a notch on a higher difficulty level.
Source: Video Game / Super Monkey Ball -
After Waterloo, the British cut him down a notch and sent him to Saint Helena in the middle of the Atlantic to live in a damp, crumbling manorhouse.
Source: Luxury Prison Suite -
When Qui-Gon attacked Xanatos's father he cut the man's hand and put a notch into a ring he wore.
Source: Good Scars, Evil Scars
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Notch and Cut. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/notch
Cut & Notch. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/notch>.
Notch or Cut. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/notch.
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