slit

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

slit, 3d. pers. sing. pres. 

 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

slit, v. t. [OE. slitten, fr. sliten, AS. stītan to tear; akin to D. slijten to wear out, G. schleissen to slit, split, OHG. slīzan to split, tear, wear out, Icel. stīta to break, tear, wear out, Sw. slita, Dan. slide. Cf. Eclat, Slate, n., Slice.].

•  To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cut; to sever; to divide.  [1913 Webster]

  "And slits the thin-spun life."  [1913 Webster]

slit, n. [AS. slite.].

 A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.  [1913 Webster]

Gill slit. (Anat.) See Gill opening, under Gill.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

slit, n. & v.
--n.
1 a long straight narrow incision.
2 a long narrow opening comparable to a cut.
--v.tr. (slitting; past and past part. slit)
1 make a slit in; cut or tear lengthwise.
2 cut into strips.

Idiom

slit-eyed having long narrow eyes. slit-pocket a pocket with a vertical opening giving access to the pocket or to a garment beneath. slit trench a narrow trench for a soldier or a weapon.

Derivative

slitter n.

Etymology

ME slitte, rel. to OE slitan, f. Gmc

THESAURUS

slit

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

ROGET THESAURUS

slit

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, 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, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Interval

N 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, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.

Furrow

N furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit, chamfer, fluting, corduroy road, cradle hole, channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke, moat, fosse, trough, kennel, ravine, tajo, thank-ye-ma'am, furrowed, ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated, bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated, canaliferous, trisulcate, corduroy, unisulcate, costate, rimiform.