Slit Definition

slĭt
slits, slitting
noun
slits
A cut or tear, esp. one that is long and straight.
Webster's New World
A long, narrow opening or crack.
Webster's New World

(vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

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verb
slits, slitting
To cut or split open, esp. by a straight incision.
Webster's New World
To make a slit or slits in.
American Heritage
To cut into strips.
Webster's New World
To cut (off); sever.
Webster's New World

To split in two parts.

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Other Word Forms of Slit

Noun

Singular:
slit
Plural:
slits

Origin of Slit

  • Middle English slitte from slitten to split from Old English slītan to cut up

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Slit Sentence Examples

  • A man stood next to it, peeking through a slit in the vertical slats.

  • The female lays her eggs in a slit made by means of her "saw-like" ovipositor in the leaf or fruit of a tree.

  • Thus the Virgin river, a northern branch of the Colorado, has cut a vertical slit, 1000 ft.

  • Unfortunately considerations of luminosity compel the observer often to widen the slit much beyond the range within which the theoretical value of resolving power holds in practice.

  • When the slit is narrow light is lost through diffraction unless the angular aperture of this condensing lens, as viewed from the slit, is considerably greater than that of the collimator lens.

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Words Starting With

SSLSLI

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