Slit

Definition: Slit

Slit

Adjective

1. Having a long narrow cut; "his poor slit throat".

2. Having a narrow opening; "a slit skirt revealed shapely legs"; "a knife with a slitted blade".

Noun

1. A long narrow opening.

2. Obscene terms for female genitals.

3. A depression scratched or carved into a surface.

4. A narrow fissure.

Verb

1. Make a clean cut through; "slit her throat".

2. Cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slit

Disjunction

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, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.

Furrow

Noun: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole.

Interval

Noun: 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.

Crosswords: Slit

Norwegian (fag, labour), Swedish (drudgery, fag, grind, scramble, slog, toil, wear and tear).

I'm totally going to slit my throat (Ginger Snaps; writing credit: Karen Walton; John Fawcett)

I slit his throat (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

Yeah, see this is why the whole redundancy thing doesn't bother me. If I have to work with him another day, right, I'm just going to, I will I will slit my throat (The Office; writing credit: Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant)

Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

I slit a sheet. A sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet, I sit! (references; author: unknown)

I'm a sheet slitter. I slit sheets. I am the best sheet slitter that ever slit a sheet. (references; author: unknown)

Slit Skirts (1983)

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Books

• Atlas der Spaltlampenphotographie und Einfèuhrung in die Aufnahmetechnik = Atlas of slit lamp photography and introduction to its technical problems (reference)

• Clinical Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy and Photo Slit Lamp Biomicrography (reference)

• Slit med helsa : bilder fra min medisinske samtid (reference)

• The Slit Lamp Primer (Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A slit lamp, with its high magnification, allows the eye care professional to examine the front of the eye. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

The Slit Lamp and Corneal Microscope. : School Of Aviation Medicine. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Canadian troops in Normandy digging trenches outside their tents, next to sign reading "Old soldiers never die--they dig! and fade away into a slit trench". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He lifted the skin of the back, slit it, put his fingers in the hole, and tore the skin off.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

An instrument called a slit lamp, which permits examination of the inside of the eye, can be used to detect silent damage from sarcoidosis. (references)

This overdraining can cause the ventricles to collapse, tearing blood vessels and causing headache, hemorrhage (subdural hematoma), or slit-like ventricles (slit ventricle syndrome). (references)

Human Rights

Algeria

On April 1, armed-group members slit the throats of a family of five in the town of Ain Agba, 72 miles south of Algiers. (references)

Algeria

For example, on the night of January 27, terrorists slit the throats of 25 villagers in the town of El-Guetaibia, 124 miles west of Algiers. (references)

Algeria

A bomb in Lakhdari injured two communal guards on March 26. On April 1, armed group members slit the throats of five family members in the town of Ain Agba, 72 miles south of Algiers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "slit": arrow slit ♦ Gill slit ♦ observation slit ♦ pudendal slit ♦ slit eye ♦ slit open ♦ slit smb.'s throat ♦ slit smb.'s troat ♦ slit trench ♦ vulvar slit. Additional references.

Beginning with "slit": slit-eyed, slit-eyes, slit-like, slit-mouth, slit-mouthed, slit-pupilled, slit-scan, slit-shaped, slit-shell, slit-trench.

Ending with "slit": arrow-slit, two-slit.

Albanian

vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slot, tear, vent, venthole), prerje (cut, cutting, excision, felling, gash, incision, jump, kerf, mintage, scission, shearing, slash, snip, striking, tapping), grisje (laceration, rent, rip, tear, tore), gris (clip, rend, rent, rip, rip up, shred, split, tear, torn), gërric (rip, scatter, scrabble, scratch, shatter, tear), e çarë (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cranny, crevice, cut, rent, rift, shake, slot), çaj (break, char, cleave, cut, dissect, fissure, forge, impale, open, pink, puncture, push through, slash, split, tea, tear, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فتحة (aperture, breach, gap, manhole, niche, opening, orifice, overture, porthole, slash, slot, vent), ‏مقدود, ‏مقدد (bacon, crunchy), ‏مشقوق بالطول, ‏قطع الى شرائح (fillet, slice), ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), ‏تمزيق (laceration, rending, ripping, rupture, shredding, tearing), ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), ‏شق طولي (vent), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), ‏شرط (condition, provision, scarification, score, slash, stipulation, string, term). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разсичам (chop, cleave, dissect, hack, slash), разрязвам (cut in, cut up, disarticulate, dissect, scissor), разрез (cut, elevation, section, slash, slot), цепя (cleave, hew down, knife, skive, slash, sliver, splinter, split), цепка (cleft, fissure, rip, slash, slot, split, vent), цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, cracking, fissure, flaw, leak, rent, rift, shake, slash, slot), тесен отвор (throat), шлиц, визьор (object-finder, vane, viewfinder). (various references)

Chinese 

裂缝 (Cleft, Crack), 豁 (clear, crack, exempt, liberal-minded, open, opening, play Chinese finger game, sacrifice, stake all). (various references)

Czech

skulina (chink, cranny, gap, leak, loophole, peephole), rozparek, rozříznout (cut open, gash), štìrbina (chink, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, leak, slot). (various references)

Danish

spalte (crack, crevice, split). (various references)

Dutch

spleet (crack, crevice). (various references)

Farsi 

چاک دادن (Rift, Scotch, Slash, Strip, Tear, Unseam), چاک (Cut, Hack, Incision, Interstice, Rift, Rip, Scotch, Slot, Split, Suture, Tear), شکافتن (Chink, Cleave, Excision, Fracture, Pierce, Rift, Rip, Rive, Slat, Split), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slither, Split, Suture), دریدن (Lacerate, Rend, Rip, Tear), درز (Crevice, Gap, Interstice, Peephole, Seam, Suture). (various references)

Finnish

rako (chink, cleft, crack, slot). (various references)

French

fente (slot). (various references)

German

Schlitz (fly, jag, placket, rip, slash, slot, vent). (various references)

Greek 

σχισμή (cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, placket, rift, slot, split). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'זר (part, sector, segment), לחתוך לרצועות, לחרוץ (flute, notch, rut), חתך (cut, cutting, incision, intersection, section, slash, wound), חריץ (crack, crevice, ditch, fissure, flute, fluting, groove, jag, notch, rut, score, slot), כו�" (hatchway, loophole, porthole, vent), �'�"ו�"�" (incision), ס�"ק (chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, fissure, flaw, fracture, rift, split). (various references)

Hungarian

vagina (coot, crack, futz, vagina, vaginae), repeszt (to blast, to craze, to fissure, to flaw, to rip, to rupture, to scorch, to slit, to sliver, to split, to tear ass), rés (aperture, chink, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, hole, leak, missing link, mortice, mortise, opening, pool, rift, Rive, scupper, slot, split), pina (ass, futz, tail), hasított (cleft, rent, Riven, split), hasíték (crack, cut, dag, fly, slash, slot, vent). (various references)

Indonesian

menggorok (cut), membuat celah, membelah (cleave, cut a cross, rend, rip apart, rive, split), celah (aperture, chink, cleft, crevice, fissure, gap, rift, slot, space), belah (crack, cun in half, half). (various references)

Italian

fessura (burst, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, leak, Rive, slot, split). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

わが国 (arc, architecture, archive, archiver, argument, argyle, argyle check, be excited, bustling, creepy crawly, get nervous, hiragana for "we", hiragana for "wi", our country, our land, shuffling, squirming, tremble, vagina, vulva), スラ� 街 (bunting on two strikes, bust-waist-hip measurements, petticoat, slalom, sleep, sleeve, slim, slimmer, slip, slippers, slum quarters, slump, slurry, three-piece suit, three-wheeled bicycle, vital statistics), 切り口 (cut end, opening, section). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりくち (cut end, opening, section), われめちゃ�" (vagina, vulva), われめ (vagina, vulva), スリット . (various references)

Korean 

틈새. (various references)

Manx

speiltagh (chippy, renegade, shivered), scoltit (burst, chopped, cleft, cloven, fissured, gutted, hewn, parted, split, sprung), scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, snip, truncate), fosley (answer, answer door, broach as cargo; overture, broach; overture, burst, develop, disclose, disillusion, explode, introduction, lane, lane in ice field, open, open out, open up, opening, orifice, passage, placket hole, strike out, unbosom, unclench, unhook, unhook as clothing). (various references)

Pig Latin

itslay.(various references)

Portuguese

fenda (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fracture, gap, hiatus, leak, pit, rent, rift, rip). (various references)

Romanian

tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, furrow, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, Nick, notch, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slash, snick, style), rupturã (breach, break, breaking, cleavage, discontinuance, disruption, failure, hole, inrush, rag, rend, rent, rift, rip, rupture, tear), fantã (kerf, slot), despica (bifurcate, check, cleave, rend, rift, rip, Rive, splinter, split), deschizãturã (aperture, breach, eyehole, gap, hole, loophole, louver, mouth, opening, orifice, out, vent), crãpãturã (breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, eyehole, fissure, flaw, loophole, Nick, rent, rift, slot, split, yawn), crãpa (break, burst, chap, check, cleave, crack, flaw, half-open, hook it, rift, splinter, split, split a log, spring, wolf), şliţ (jag, lug). (various references)

Russian 

скважина (bore, chink, hole, keyhole, peep, pore), щель (areaway, call slot, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, notch, peep, rent, rift, slit trench, slot), трещина (cavity, chap, check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, fissure, flaw, fracture, joint, rent, rift, split, vug), прорезь (mortise, slash, slot), прорезать щель, делать разрез. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzan otvor (slot), rascepiti (cleave, splinter, split), prorezati (slash, slice, slot), prorez (slash, slot), šlic (fly). (various references)

Spanish

abertura (aperture, break, crack, gap, opening, placket, rent, vent). (various references)

Swedish

springa (burst, chink, course, cranny, crevice, hare, interstice, jump, leg it, opening, pop, race, run, scurry, slot, vent), skära (carve, Crescent, Curdle, cut, hook, intersect, nick, reap, reaping hook, sickle, traverse, undercut). (various references)

Turkish

sökmek (cut loose, demount, detach, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dismount, knock down, Ravel, ravel out, read, rip, rip off, spring, take down, tear down, undo, unfix, unpick, unravel, unrig, unstitch), sökülmek (come away, come unstitched, cough up, Ravel, ravel out, rip, unravel), yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), yarılmak (burst, chap, cleave, crack, dehisce, rip, split off, tear, yawn), yarık (breach, chap, chappy, chasm, chink, cleft, cloven, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, hiatus, incision, interstice, rent, rift, scissure, shake, slot, split, tear, vent), yırtmak (claw, cut the gordian knot, lacerate, rend, rip, rip up, Rive, slash, squirm out of, tear, tear to pieces), yırtmaç (slash, vent), yırtılmak (rend, rip, tear), yırtık (rent, rip, rupture, slash, tear), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kesik (broken, cut, disconnected, gash, incision, interrupted, off, scotch, slash, snick), dar aralık. (various references)

Turkmen 

yю (crevice), dilik etmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

рватися (rip, tear), розрізати вздовж, розщеплювати (rend, rift, splinter), щилина, проріз (aperture, notch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khe hở (opening, play, windage), kẻ hở, đường rạch (furrow). (various references)

Welsh

hollti (cleave, split), hollt (cleft, split). (various references)

proscindet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "slit": slither, slithered, slithering, slithers, slithery, slitless, slits, slitted, slitter, slitters, slitting. (additional references)

Words ending with "slit": gaslit, mislit. (additional references)

Words containing "slit": transliterate, transliterated, transliterates, transliterating, transliteration, transliterations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dlitt, elitt, eslat, eslet, eslit, lsi, salit, Salpiti, Scit, Sclat, sclit, seit, Selsit, sfit, shitt, shlat, silat, silif, silj, silq, silth, S'it, Slatt, slaut, sleat, slet, slewt, sli, slig, sliht, Slint, slipt, slite, slith, slito, sliv, sliy, slizt, slota, slpit, slutz, slyt, slyth, soit, solit, srit, swit, switt, syit, ulit, zilt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: list, lits, silt, tils.

-1 letter: its, lis, lit, sit, til, tis.

-2 letters: is, it, li, si, ti.

+1 letter: alist, clits, flits, gilts, hilts, islet, istle, jilts, kilts, lifts, lilts, lints, lists, litas, milts, silts, silty, slipt, slits, spilt, split, stile, still, stilt, styli, tails, tiles, tills, tilts, tirls, toils, wilts.

+2 letters: blites, clifts, delist, distal, distil, elints, elites, enlist, filets, filths, fliest, flints, flirts, flites, gaslit, glints, guilts, holist, idlest, illest, inlets, instal, instil, insult, islets, istles, itself, ixtles, lathis, latish, legist, legits, lichts, lights, likest, limits, listed, listee, listel, listen, lister, liters, lithos, litmus, litres, livest, lutist, lyrist, mislit, pastil, pilots, pistil, pistol, plaits, quilts, relist, saltie, silent, silted, skylit, sliest, slight, smalti, spilth, spital, splint, splits, spoilt, stelai, stelic, stifle, stiles, stills, stilly, stilts, stipel, stolid, sunlit, tahsil, tallis, thills, thiols, thirls, ticals, tilaks, tildes, tilers, tilths, tinsel, titles, toiles, tonsil, trails, trials, trills, triols, tulips, twills, twirls, vilest, vitals, whilst.