Crossword clues for slit
slit
- Poncho feature
- Long narrow opening
- Knife cut
- Fashionable cut
- Visor opening
- Use a box cutter on
- Suggestive opening
- Slight cut
- Skirt vent
- Skirt feature, maybe
- Narrow space
- Murderdolls "___ My Wrist"
- Minor incision
- Mask part
- Long, narrow cut
- Long opening
- It's made with a blade
- Hairline cut
- D.R.I. "___ My Wrist"
- Cut in an envelope
- Cut (open), as a letter
- Capri pants feature, often
- Calf exposure?
- Buttonhole, basically
- Zoetrope feature
- X-Acto knife cut
- Vent, perhaps
- Use an X-Acto Knife on
- Use a razor blade on, perhaps
- Use a letter-opener
- TV dinner vent
- Tissue box access
- Tiny tear
- Tight, straight cut
- Tight-skirt feature
- Thin, narrow opening
- Thin cut 5. Run-down housing
- Thigh-baring dress feature
- Straight, thin cut
- Straight, narrow cut
- Straight skirt feature
- Straight cut
- Squinting eye, say
- Squinting eye, e.g
- Spectrometer feature
- Small, narrow cut
- Sexy dress feature
- Revealing dress feature
- Pupil of a lizard, e.g
- Punk rocker Tessa Pollitt, e.g
- Pocket feature
- Persian's pupil, at times
- Peeping Tom's viewing point
- Part of a daring skirt
- Paper airplane feature
- Oriental dress feature
- Open with a paper knife
- Open with a box cutter
- Open letters
- Not much light can get through it
- Narrow vent
- Narrow slash
- Narrow opening in a skirt
- Narrow incision
- Narrow cut, as in an envelope
- Make incisions
- Make an incision
- Make a narrow cut in
- Make a long cut in
- Make a cut in
- Letter opener's cut
- Leg-revealing vent in a skirt
- Kind of trench
- It can make a skirt sexy
- Gown feature, perhaps
- Feature of a sexy skirt
- Feature of a long yet revealing skirt
- Envelope opening?
- Envelope opening
- Eastern skirt style
- Cut, as with a letter opener
- Cut, as a well-taped box
- Cut with an X-Acto knife
- Cut from a blade
- Common Oscar gown feature
- Clothing opening
- Cat's pupil, on a sunny day
- Cat's pupil, at times
- Cat's eye, at times
- Capri pants feature
- Buttonhole, usually
- Buttonhole, say
- Buttonhole, for instance
- Buckcherry "___ My Wrists"
- Armor helmet eyehole
- Airhole for a TV dinner
- A buttonhole is one
- Eye opening for a squint
- Use a letter opener on
- Skirt opening
- Letter opening?
- Skirt feature, perhaps
- Cut in a skirt
- Eye opening, maybe
- Feature of some skirts
- Cut open
- Buttonhole, e.g
- Open, in a way
- Open, as an envelope
- Buttonhole, essentially
- Incision
- Stitch target
- Gill openings
- Squinting eye, e.g.
- Kind of skirt
- Cat's eye, sometimes
- Buttonhole, e.g.
- Narrow cut in a skirt
- Cut like a letter opener
- Opening
- Feature of Capri pants
- Start of a tear
- Narrow opening such as a buttonhole
- Use a knife
- Crack; chink
- Turtle's eye, often
- Knife incision
- Revealing skirt feature
- Microchannel
- Start of many an operation
- Thin opening
- Ball
- Operation creation
- Pupil of a snake's eye, often
- Sexy skirt feature
- Use a scalpel on
- Buttonhole, for example
- Cut with a knife
- A narrow fissure
- A long narrow opening
- Obscene terms for female genitals
- A depression scratched or carved into a surface
- Kind of trench or lamp
- Slash
- Type of skirt
- Placket
- Part of some skirts
- Chink or crack
- Fissure
- Narrow aperture
- Lance
- Sever
- Aperture
- Small opening
- Jacket feature
- Open an envelope
- Oriental skirt feature
- Cut along a line
- Cheongsam feature
- ___ trench
- Groove
- Succeeded with literary opening
- Soloist not even opening
- Small cut
- Tiny opening
- Narrow gap
- Thin cut in an envelope
- Long cut
- Little cut
- Dress cut
- Razor cut
- Small incision
- Piggy bank feature
- Alluring dress feature
- Narrow fissure
- Gill opening
- Alluring skirt feature
- Tiny cut
- Thin aperture
- Open with a letter opener
- Fine cut
- A straight cut
- Thin incision
- Thigh revealer
- Squint-eyed opening
- Skirt feature, sometimes
- Open envelopes
- Louver feature
- Letter opener's creation
- What an X-Acto knife might make
- The Used "___ Your Own Throat"
- Surgical cut
- Surgeon's cut
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slit \Slit\, obs.
3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
--Chaucer.
Slit \Slit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slit or Slitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slitting.] [OE. slitten, fr. sliten, AS. st[=i]tan to tear; akin to D. slijten to wear out, G. schleissen to slit, split, OHG. sl[=i]zan to split, tear, wear out, Icel. st[=i]ta 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.
To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
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To cut; to sever; to divide. [Obs.]
And slits the thin-spun life.
--Milton.
Slit \Slit\, n. [AS. slite.] A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
Gill slit. (Anat.) See Gill opening, under Gill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from or related to Old English slitan "to slit, tear, split, rend to pieces; bite, sting; back-bite," from Proto-Germanic *slitan (cognates: Old Saxon slitan, Old Frisian slita, Old Norse slita, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch sliten, Dutch slijten, Old High German slizan, German schleißen "to slit"). A more violent verb in Old English than after, as in slitcwealm "death by rending." Slit skirt is attested from 1913.A slitting-mill (1660s) cut iron plates into thin rods for making nails, etc.
mid-13c., "long cut or rent (in clothes), incision," from slit (v.). Slang sense of "vulva" is attested from 1640s. Old English had slit (n.) with a sense of "a rending, bite; backbiting."
Wiktionary
n. A narrow cut or opening; a slot. vb. 1 To cut a narrow opening. 2 To split in two parts. 3 (context transitive English) To cut; to sever; to divide.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Slit may refer to:
- a straight and narrow opening, particularly used in spectroscopy
- Slit (gene), in genetics, the midline repellent signaling molecule
- The process of slitting, in which large rolls of material are rewound and cut (slit) into narrower rolls of material
- Slit trench, a defensive preparation in warfare
- Slit throat, a knife wound to the neck and/or throat
- Caso Degollados (Case of the Slit Throats), a Chilean politically motivated crime and political scandal
- Slit, a feature of Blackbox and similar X window managers that allows for applications to hide along the edge of a computer display
- SLIT, Sublingual immunotherapy
- Slang for the vagina
Slit refers to a family of related genes which encode a corresponding set of secreted proteins, also collectively referred to as Slit. The ventral midline of the central nervous system is a key place where axons can either decide to cross and laterally project or stay on the same side of the brain. The main function of Slit proteins is to act as midline repellents, preventing the crossing of longitudinal axons through the midline of the central nervous system of most bilaterian animal species, including mice, chickens, humans, insects, nematode worms and planarians. It also prevents the recrossing of commissural axons. Its canonical receptor is Robo but it may have other receptors. The Slit protein is produced and secreted by cells within the floor plate (in vertebrates) or by midline glia (in insects) and diffuses outward. Slit/Robo signaling is important in pioneer axon guidance.
Humans, mice and other vertebrates possess three Slit genes, known as Slit1, Slit2, and Slit3, which cooperate to mediate midline repulsion. Other animals, such as insects and nematode worms, possess a single Slit gene. Human Slits are involved in a few pathological circumstances, such as in cancer and inflammation.
Usage examples of "slit".
Abruptly he saw how their escape from the Center was going to end: with him lying in the weeds with his throat slit, and Alleluia, kicking and screaming all the way, being dragged off somewhere for a night of gangbanging.
The alien had a short tail attached about where a tail should be, and his head approximated a sphere, with two eyes, a slit nostril, and a mouth about where their human counterparts were located.
Rapid rotation can be detected astronomically by spectroscopy, letting light from a distant object pass consecutively through a telescope, a narrow slit and a glass prism or other device which spreads white light out into a rainbow of colors.
Heron pushed his chair brusquely aside and strode across the narrow room deliberately facing the portly figure of de Batz, who with head slightly inclined on one side, his small eyes narrowed till they appeared mere slits in his pockmarked face, was steadily and quite placidly contemplating this inhuman monster who had this very day been given uncontrolled power over hundreds of thousands of human lives.
I will gladly slit their bellies open, pull their entrails out, and burn them.
We cannot, for instance, suppose that in the embryos of the vertebrata the peculiar loop-like course of the arteries near the branchial slits are related to similar conditions,--in the young mammal which is nourished in the womb of its mother, in the egg of the bird which is hatched in a nest, and in the spawn of a frog under water.
We may cease marvelling at the embryo of an air-breathing mammal or bird having branchial slits and arteries running in loops, like those in a fish which has to breathe the air dissolved in water, by the aid of well-developed branchiae.
The capsule does not open by an operculum but by four or six longitudinal slits, which do not reach either the base or apex.
The design, inclosed by a circle, represents a cross such as would be formed by two rectangular tablets or slips, slit longitudinally and interlaced at right-angles to each other.
The riders wore horn-mail over dun uniforms, slit to mid-spine, braided manes flying.
It was more noticeable in Shiriya-Shenin: their slit robes, curved pairs of blades and manes braided with ceramic beads, their habit of going barefoot on tessellated stone floors.
Malipieri and Masin had widened the slit to a convenient passage, but as soon as it had been possible to squeeze through, the architect had gone in.
Flashing the light behind him, Masson caught his breath in a sob of fear as he saw a dozen great rats watching him intently, their slitted eyes glittering in the light.
As I approached the booth he looked up at menot very far upthrough slits in a face made up of bunched ovals with a nose like the corner of a building.
They snorted and shot their pale milts neatly into their nostril slits.