1. slit(n = noun.artifact) - a long narrow opening;
is a kind of opening
has particulars: jag, slot, vent
Derived form verb slit2
2. slit(n = noun.body) cunt, puss, pussy, snatch, twat - obscene terms for female genitals;
is a kind of fanny, female genital organ, female genitalia, female genitals
3. slit(n = noun.shape) dent, incision, prick, scratch - a depression scratched or carved into a surface;
is a kind of depression, impression, imprint
has particulars: score, scotch
Derived forms verb slit2, verb slit1
4. slit(n = noun.object) - a narrow fissure;
is a kind of cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure
Derived form verb slit2
1. slit(v = verb.contact) slice - make a clean cut through; "slit her throat"
is one way to cut
Derived form noun slit3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
2. slit(v = verb.contact) - cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim"
is one way to incise
Derived forms noun slit1, noun slit4, noun slit3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
1. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps. [1913 Webster]
2. To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose. [1913 Webster]
3. To cut; to sever; to divide. [1913 Webster]
"And slits the thin-spun life." [1913 Webster]
A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear. [1913 Webster]
slit, n. & v.
--n.
1 a long straight narrow incision.
2 a long narrow opening comparable to a cut.
--v.tr. (slitting; past and past part. slit)
1 make a slit in; cut or tear lengthwise.
2 cut into strips.
Idiom:
slit-eyed having long narrow eyes. slit-pocket a pocket with a vertical opening giving access to the pocket or to a garment beneath. slit trench a narrow trench for a soldier or a weapon.
Derivative:
slitter n.
Etymology:
ME slitte, rel. to OE slitan, f. Gmc
N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.
VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.
N furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit, chamfer, fluting, corduroy road, cradle hole, channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke, moat, fosse, trough, kennel, ravine, tajo, thank-ye-ma'am, furrowed, ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated, bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated, canaliferous, trisulcate, corduroy, unisulcate, costate, rimiform.