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Slitted

Definition: Slitted

Slitted

Adjective

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

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

Date "slitted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references)


Synonym: Slitted

Synonym: slit (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Slitted

English words defined with "slitted": fish sliceslit. (references)
Specialty definitions using "slitted": sanding-machine tender, automaticTURNING-SANDER TENDER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Slitted

DomainUsage

Tongue Twisters

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

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

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Use in Literature: Slitted

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

His face was red and his blue eyes long and slitted from having squinted always at sharp light.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Slitted

"Slitted" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 41.67% of the time. "Slitted" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)41.67%5157,705
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%4175,879
Lexical Verb (past participle)25%3202,518
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Slitted

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "slitted": almond-slitted.

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

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Modern Translation: Slitted

Language Translations for "slitted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

schlitzte (slashed), geschlitzt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ittedslay

   

Russian 

  

прорезать разрезной. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Slitted

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: stilted.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-s-t-t"

-1 letter: delist, idlest, listed, silted, tildes, tilted, titled, titles.

-2 letters: deils, deist, delis, delts, diets, dites, edits, idles, isled, islet, istle, sidle, sited, slide, stied, stile, stilt, tides, tilde, tiled, tiles, tilts, title.

-3 letters: deil, deli, dels, delt, diel, dies, diet, dite, dits, edit, elds, ides, idle, isle, leis, lest, lets, lids, lied, lies.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: altitudes, glottides, latitudes, mistitled, stiltedly, stolidest, studliest, subtitled, totalised.

 

+3 letters: disentitle, distillate, multitudes, platitudes, stilettoed, stimulated, stipulated, stridently, stridulate, stultified, tantalised, twiddliest.

 

+4 letters: bullshitted, colatitudes, debilitates, dictyostele, dilettantes, disentitled, disentitles, distasteful, distillates, ductilities, fieldstript, illustrated, multitasked, plentitudes, silhouetted, spotlighted, stiltedness, stolidities, straitlaced, stridulated, stridulates, tetraploids, theodolites, thistledown, wattlebirds, wildcatters.

 

+5 letters: anecdotalist, battlefields, deglutitions, delectations, deontologist, destructible, detrimentals, dictyosteles, dilatometers, dilettantish, dilettantism, disentitling, distractable, distractedly, distractible, disutilities, editorialist, epiglottides, gesticulated, interestedly, interstadial, lockstitched, midlatitudes, multistemmed, multistoried, pentlandites, proglottides, restimulated, restrictedly, scintillated, stringhalted, thistledowns, titleholders, tolbutamides.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Slitted


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 69 74 74 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-..    ..    -    -    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0069 0074 0074 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53787586867170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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