Dictionary Definition
slit
Noun
1 a long narrow opening
4 a narrow fissure
Verb
1 make a clean cut through; "slit her throat"
[syn: slice]
2 cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the
victim" [also: slitting]
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
Translations
narrow cut or opening; a slot
- Dutch: spleet, gleuf
- Italian: fessura
- Spanish: ranura, abertura, rendija
vulgar, slang: opening of the vagina
- Dutch: spleet
- Spanish: raja
Verb
Translations
cut a narrow opening
- Dutch: opensnijden
split into two parts
Icelandic
Noun
slitExtensive Definition
A slit is a vertical or horizontal space that can
open and close. It also refers to:
- in computing, a feature of Blackbox (and similar X window managers) that allows for applications to hide along the edge of the computer display.
- in clothing, slit is a vertical cut from hem of the skirt which makes skirt easier to walk in.
SLIT may refer to:
slit in Japanese: スリット
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abrade,
abysm, abyss, aggravated, amputate, aperture, arroyo, ax, bark, bezel, bisect, blemish, bloody, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broach, broken, burn, burned, burst, busted, butcher, canal, canaliculate, canaliculated, canalize, canyon, carve, cavity, chafe, chamfer, chamfered, channel, channeled, chap, chase, chasm, check, checked, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, chipped, chisel, chop, claw, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cloven, col, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, corrugation, costate, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, cranny, craze, crazed, crevasse, crevice, crimp, crimped, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in
two, cut off, cut open, cwm,
dado, dadoed, damaged, defile, dehiscent, dell, deteriorated, dichotomize, dike, dispart, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, embittered, engrave, engraved, engraving, exacerbated, excavation, excise, fault, fissure, fissured, fissury, flaw, flume, flute, fluted, fluting, fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, furrow, furrowed, gall, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gashed, goffer, goffered, gorge, gouge, gouged, groove, grooved, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halve, harmed, hew, hole, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces,
in shards, in shreds, incise, incised, incision, injure, injured, irritated, jigsaw, joint, kloof, knife, lacerate, lacerated, lance, lay open, leak, maim, make mincemeat of, mangled, maul, microgroove, moat, mutilate, mutilated, notch, nullah, ope, open, open up, opening, pare, part, pass, passage, pierce, pleat, pleated, plow, prune, puncture, quartered, rabbet, rabbeted, ragged, ravine, rend, rent, ribbed, rifle, rifled, rifling, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, rive, riven, ruck, run, rupture, ruptured, rut, rutted, rutty, savage, saw, scald, scalded, scale, scissor, scissure, scorch, scorched, score, scored, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratched, scuff, seam, separate, sever, severed, shattered, shredded, skin, slash, slashed, slice, slot, smashed, snip, splinter, splintered, split, sprain, spread, spread out, spring open,
sprung, stab, stick, strain, streak, stria, striate, striated, striation, sulcate, sulcated, sulcation, sulcus, sunder, swing open, tap, tattered, tear, tear open, the worse for,
throw open, torn, traumatize, trench, trough, troughed, valley, void, wadi, weakened, well-worn groove,
whittle, worse, worse off, worsened, wound, wrench, wrinkle, wrinkled