Slit

What do we mean by slit?

A long, straight, narrow cut or opening. noun

To make a slit or slits in. transitive verb

To cut lengthwise into strips; split. transitive verb

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.

A long cut or rent; a narrow opening. noun

A pocket. noun

A cleft or crack in the breast of fat cattle. noun

In coal-mining, a short heading connecting two other headings. noun

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. noun

A Middle English contracted form of slideth, third person singular present indicative of slide. noun

In optics, the narrow opening through which a beam of light is admitted into the tube of a spectroscope or other optical instrument. noun

3d. pers. sing. pres. of slide.

A long cut; a narrow opening. noun

See Gill opening, under Gill. noun

To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips transitive verb

To cut or make a long fissure in or upon. transitive verb

To cut; to sever; to divide. transitive verb

A narrow cut or opening; a slot. noun

A narrow cut or opening; a slot.

The opening of the vagina.

A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

Words that are spelled similarly to slit:
slit.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word slit:
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Words that rhyme with slit:
it, fit, shit, hit, bit, split, pit, wit, remit, grit, commit, knit, quit, spit, sit, kit, submit, admit, hypocrite, tit, permit, writ, lit, retrofit, counterfeit, acquit, legit, omit, outfit, emit, whit, nit, transmit, chit, bullshit, skit, flit, refit, obit, misfit, tidbit, mitt, cockpit, befit, resubmit, armpit, brit, witt, outwit, pitt, unfit, smit, schmidt, make it, sunlit, identikit, moonlit, recommit, fitt, dewitt, blue tit, fytte, britt, messerschmitt, mother wit, schmitt, ccitt, ritt, lafitte, litt, drill bit, readmit, a bit, hitt, tool kit, tritt, dlitt, do it, tar pit, get it, smitt, banana split, whitt, rootkit, see to it, holy writ, kitt, parity bit, take a hit, blitt, reverse stock split, gillett, have a go at it, devitt, on the face of it, bit by bit, lose it, buy it, ask for it, gin and it.

Adjectives that are often used to describe slit:
narrow, small, vertical, long, single, longitudinal, horizontal, double, wide, second, mere, thin, tiny, dorsal, shaped, open, deep, adjustable, fine, short, rectangular, illuminated, central, inch, straight, median, curved, genital, gill, oblique, dark, elongated, fixed, stenopaic, anal, variable, circular, radial, wider, wet, front, broad, lateral, narrower, elongate, perpendicular, stenopeic, oval, diagonal, linear, crescentic, annular, triangular, posterior, oblong, tight, olfactory, nasal, stationary, choroid, bottom, anterior, optical, shallow, bright, two, inclined, sagittal, stenopaeic, movable.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective slit:
lamp, experiment, pattern, trenches, drum, eyes, trench, gongs, diffraction, drums, interference, windows, gong, width, beam, experiments, method, apparatus, arrangement, spectroscopy, images, widths, spectra, patterns, window, film, image, tapestry, skin, interferometer, scanning, skirt, lamps, spectrograph, mouth, opening, aperture, pores, grating, robo, geometry, diaphragm, weazand, log, nose, band, collimator, pupil, fringes, assembly, observations, technique, eye, syndrome, throats, device, mask, jaw, smears, domain, spectrum, planting, throat, grafting, jet, screen, lens, tube, ultramicroscope, spectrometer, sampler, configuration, spectroscope, dress, skirts, lip, exp, pupils, openings, microscopes, bar, setup, pockets, sprinklers, spectrographs, tip.

Consonant match to slit:
slate, slot, slight, sleet, slut, sleight, slat, sloat, sluit, slatt, slott, slaght, sloate.

Words that sound like slit:
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