Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
- transitive verb To make a slit or slits in.
- transitive verb To cut lengthwise into strips; split.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut asunder; cleave; split; rend; sever.
- To cut lengthwise or into long pieces or strips: as, the gale has slit the sails into ribbons.
- To cut or make a long fissure in; slash.
- noun A long cut or rent; a narrow opening.
- noun A pocket.
- noun A cleft or crack in the breast of fat cattle.
- noun In coal-mining, a short heading connecting two other headings.
- noun Specifically, in zoöl., anat., and embryology, a visceral cleft; one of the series of paired (right and left) openings in the front and sides of the head and neck of every vertebrate embryo, some of which or all may disappear, or some of which may persist as gill-slits or their equivalents; a branchial, pharyngeal, etc., slit.
- noun A Middle English contracted form of
slideth , third person singular present indicative of slide. - noun In optics, the narrow opening through which a beam of light is admitted into the tube of a spectroscope or other optical instrument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 3d. pers. sing. pres. of
slide . - noun A long cut; a narrow opening.
- noun (Anat.) See Gill opening, under
Gill . - transitive verb To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips
- transitive verb To cut or make a long fissure in or upon.
- transitive verb obsolete To cut; to sever; to divide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
narrow cut oropening ; aslot . - noun vulgar, slang The opening of the
vagina . - noun vulgar, slang A derogatory name for a woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a
prostitute . - verb To
cut a narrow opening. - verb To
split in two parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a narrow fissure
- verb cut a slit into
- noun a long narrow opening
- verb make a clean cut through
- noun a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- noun obscene terms for female genitals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fact, as already explained, _every point of the wave which fills the slit is itself a centre of a new wave system which is transmitted in all directions through the ether behind the slit_.
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856
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Christian thinks the thigh slit is a little high, but Heidi loves it.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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Christian thinks the thigh slit is a little high, but Heidi loves it.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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Christian thinks the thigh slit is a little high, but Heidi loves it.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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Her slit is stretched out and smelly, but she lets us use Vaseline in the rolls of her belly fat.
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Christian thinks the thigh slit is a little high, but Heidi loves it.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Empire State of Meh Una LaMarche 2010
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On the few occasions when they did meet, she wore a niqab, which covers all of the face except for a thin slit for the eyes.
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A 50/50 slit is more than fair for either candidate seeing as the states are the ones who broke the rules.
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The double-slit is a fundamental, irreducible quantum phenomenon.
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The double slit is the same thing as 1-photon state entanglement, so in examining entanglement experiments, you will come back to this same irreducibly strange feature of quantum mechanics.
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