| 释义 |
slit
I. \ˈslit, usu -id.+V\ transitive verb
(slit ; slit ; slitting ; slits)
Etymology: Middle English slitten; akin to Middle High German slitzen to slip; akin to Old English slītan to tear apart, Old High German slīzan, Old Norse slīta, Lithuanian skélti to split — more at shell
1.
a. : to make a slit in : cut lengthwise : slash
< slit the huge envelope clumsily with the paper knife — Lawrence Durrell >
< his two motorboats slit the waters of the sound — Scott Fitzgerald >
b. : to cut off or away : sever
< be his tongue slit for his insolence — P.B.Shelley >
2. : to cut (as film or paper) into long narrow strips
Synonyms: see cut
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English slitte, from slitten to slit
: a long narrow cut or opening
< a slit in the jacket >
< the window was no more than a slit in the wall >
as
a. : a narrow opening in a dome or in the roof and sidewalls of an observing room through which a telescope is pointed at the celestial bodies
b. : a narrow usually rectangular opening through which light or other emission is admitted (as to the collimator of a spectroscope) or through which it escapes (as from a black-body cavity)
c. : an aperture in the optical system of photographic sound recorders and reproducers that limits the height of the scanned area to less than a wavelength of the shortest wavelength signal to be recorded or reproduced
III. adjective
1. : shaped like a slit : long and narrow
< fat-padded slit eyes — Weston La Barre >
2. : having a slit
< a slit skirt >
< slit limpet >
3. : produced through a wide shallow opening formed at the free end of the tongue
< a slit fricative such as \th\ >
— compare groove
IV. transitive verb
(slitted ; slitted ; slitting ; slits)
: to form into a slit : narrow
< morning sunlight flooded in upon him, and he slitted his eyes against the glare — J.R.Ullman > |