Definition of slit
:a long narrow cut or opening
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Examples of slit in a Sentence
You could see through the slit in the fence.
The skirt has a slit on one side.
a dress with a slit skirt
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The prostitutes also requested that a small locker be built within the bed frame with a slit to insert cash.
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This is a town that, for the most part, forgave running back Isaiah Crowell for posting a depiction of a police officer getting his throat slit after the initial backlash from fans and police.
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But some days at recess, my classmates pulled the corners of their eyes back so that their prismatic green or blue pupils disappeared behind taut slits of skin.
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This must mean, somehow, that the particle splits into two, passes through both slits, and interferes with itself!
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For someone who's has worn bejeweled skin-tight jumpsuits, thigh-high slits, and one of the most epic plunging necklines of all time, wearing a revealing ensemble hardly comes as a surprise, especially on her birthday.
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Knitwear can seem repetitive, but Victor Glemaud’s take on the staple is refreshing, with the cutout sections, slits, and perforations that are becoming his signature.
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Use a knife to cut a small slit in the top of each pie.
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And the larva also has pharyngeal slits, a feature found throughout the chordates and vertebrates.
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Origin and Etymology of slit
Middle English, from slitten
Definition of slit
slit;
slitting
transitive verb
2
:to cut into long narrow strips
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slitter
nounExamples of slit in a Sentence
I slit the bag open at the top.
The bag of seeds had been slit open.
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His sister Zainabu and a friend had been found dead, stabbed and their throats slit, in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.
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As a U.S. attorney, Sessions took over a case in which the Ku Klux Klan slit the throat of a young black man and hanged him from a tree.
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Officer Liss was worried that Mr. Musson was trying to slit her throat with the piece of broken glass.
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According to legend, an undergraduate woman slit her wrists in Pratt Hall one fateful night while wearing a red robe.
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A Nestor resident opened the front door Friday morning to a bleeding stranger seeking help, saying his throat had been slit in an attack at Berry Park.
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An autopsy determined she had been beaten and strangled and that her throat had been slit.
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She was beaten, stabbed, and had slit her throat, court documents show.
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Last year, another driver struck Berlin in December, following a grueling summer in Germany with five separate attacks in July alone, while, that same month, a jihadist slit the throat of a French priest in a Normandy church.
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Origin and Etymology of slit
Middle English slitten; akin to Middle High German slitzen to slit, Old High German slīzan to tear apart, Old English sciell shell — more at shell
slit Synonyms
SLIT Defined for English Language Learners
slit
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noun
Definition of slit for English Language Learners
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: a long, narrow cut or opening in something
slit
verb
Definition of slit for English Language Learners
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: to make a long, narrow cut or opening in (something) with a sharp object
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