The cut is a basic form of continuity editing and can be used in a variety of different ways across all types of media as a way of moving from one scene to another.

Compare SceneTransition.
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!!Tropes:
* AgeCut: A cut to a character several ages older.
* AmbulanceCut: A sudden cut to a character in the hospital or on an ambulance to such.
* AnswerCut: A character asks a question, and the next scene shows the answer.
* AntiClimaxCut: The next scene is building up to be really exciting and interesting...but then it instantly cuts to the buildup having no payoff.
* BladeOfGrassCut: The camera focuses on a small, unimportant object during a scene, usually to emphasize or symbolize something.
* BodyWipe: Part of someone's body fills the screen and dissolves/cuts to the next scene.
* ChargeIntoCombatCut: A fight scene is about to start, only for it to cut to something else entirely to break the tension.
* ConversationCut: Cutting to another scene in the middle of a conversation, as if no time had passed inbetween one scene and the other.
* CutApart: A cutaway reveals a SwitchingPOV wasn't about the same situation.
* CutawayGag: A character mentions an unseen past event or a hypothetical situation. After that, a brief scene is shown depicting what the character was talking about.
* CuttingBackToReality: A hallucination or fantasy is witnessed—only for a cut to reveal what's actually happening.
* DescriptionCut: A character mentions someone will do something, and the next scene shows them doing the complete opposite.
* DistantReactionShot: Cutting to somewhere further away as something is happening, possibly to emphasize how big and grand it is.
* ExpositionCut: Cutting to the aftermath of an InfoDump to save time.
* FlashbackCut: Instead of an actual flashback, a brief cut shows what happened, then instantly cuts right back to the present scene.
* FuneralCut: A character is in a life-threatening situation, only to cut to their tombstone (or the other characters attending their funeral).
* GilliganCut: A character refuses to do something and the next scene shows them doing exactly what they said they wouldn't do.
* HardCut: The most basic cut out there: one scene immediately cuts to the other, with no transition inbetween.
* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: A character gets an idea, then it cuts to them carrying the idea out.
* IronicEchoCut: Someone addresses a subject, and the scene cuts to someone else addressing the same subject in another manner.
* JumpCut: Instantly cutting from one shot to another, very similar one.
* MatchCut: The scene cuts/dissolves to a similarly displayed lifeform or object.
* MultiTakeCut: The exact same action filmed from various angles then edited together with Jump Cuts.
* NextThingTheyKnew: A couple goes from flirting with each other to having sex over the course of two shots.
* ReactionShot: Character says or does something and the camera cuts away to another character to show them react.
* RelaxOVision: A form of censorship where disturbing scenes are replaced with footage of something more pleasant.
* RepeatCut: The same action, line, or brief exchange is shown more than once in immediate repetition.
* SmashCut: An abrupt cut from one scene to the next.
** SmashToBlack: Instantly cutting to black at the end of a scene.
* SneezeCut: Someone is talking/thinking about someone else; cut to said person sneezing. A common anime trope.
* StopTrick: Shooting a scene, changing something in it, then shooting another one; this gives the illusion that a dramatic change has happened in the blink of an eye.
* SwitchingPOV: A scene cuts from one character's perspective to another's.
* TwistedEchoCut: The conversation cuts to another just like it, though related to something else.
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Cut between two or more characters talking about the same thing.
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