Slit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
  • v. To make a slit or slits in.
  • v. To cut lengthwise into strips; split.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
  • n. The opening of the vagina.
  • n. A derogatory name for a woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
  • v. To cut a narrow opening.
  • v. To split in two parts.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 3d. pers. sing. pres. of slide.
  • v. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips
  • v. To cut or make a long fissure in or upon.
  • v. To cut; to sever; to divide.
  • n. A long cut; a narrow opening.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. A long cut or rent; a narrow opening.
  • n. A pocket.
  • n. A cleft or crack in the breast of fat cattle.
  • n. In coal-mining, a short heading connecting two other headings.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A Middle English contracted form of slideth, third person singular present indicative of slide.
  • n. In optics, the narrow opening through which a beam of light is admitted into the tube of a spectroscope or other optical instrument.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a narrow fissure
  • v. cut a slit into
  • n. a long narrow opening
  • v. make a clean cut through
  • n. a depression scratched or carved into a surface
  • n. obscene terms for female genitals
  • Verb Form
    slits    slitted    slitting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    scissure    crack    crevice    fissure    cleft    incise    cut    Fanny    female genitalia    female genital organ   
    Variant
    slitting    slide   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cut    sever    divide    slashed    jagged    pinked   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brit    Grit    Kit    Pitt    Pritt    Schlitt    Schmidt    Split    Whit    Witt   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    slash    gash    opening    hole    crack    fissure    stripe    rectangle    seam    gap