Slit
noun
A long, narrow cut or opening.
He made a small slit in the paper with his knife.
Often appears as...
- small slit
- vertical slit
verb
To make a long, narrow cut in something.
He slit open the envelope with a letter opener.
Often appears as...
- slit open
- slit the throat
noun
A long, narrow cut or opening.
He made a small slit in the paper with his knife.
Often appears as...
- small slit
- vertical slit
verb
To make a long, narrow cut in something.
He slit open the envelope with a letter opener.
Often appears as...
- slit open
- slit the throat
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Dimension
Used to describe physical features that are thin and elongated.
There was a thin slit in her dress to show off the shoe.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility Hint
Often implies that something is barely visible or could be looked through.
He peered through the slit in the curtains to see outside.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Straight
Slits can be curved or irregular, not necessarily a straight line.
The vase had a looping slit pattern around its neck.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Dimension
Used to describe physical features that are thin and elongated.
There was a thin slit in her dress to show off the shoe.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility Hint
Often implies that something is barely visible or could be looked through.
He peered through the slit in the curtains to see outside.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Straight
Slits can be curved or irregular, not necessarily a straight line.
The vase had a looping slit pattern around its neck.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Dimension
Used to describe physical features that are thin and elongated.
There was a thin slit in her dress to show off the shoe.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility Hint
Often implies that something is barely visible or could be looked through.
He peered through the slit in the curtains to see outside.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Straight
Slits can be curved or irregular, not necessarily a straight line.
The vase had a looping slit pattern around its neck.
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Depression, the secret...
I would rather slit my wrist than go through it. It was the feeling all the time like that feeling you have if you're walking and you slip or trip and the ground is rushing up at you, but instead of lasting half a second, the way that does, it lasted for six months. It's a sensation of being afraid all the time
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My Life As an Adventure...
figure out a way to kind of deal with the cold and then slit your self down here it's just mud and heat and wet you know and and even if you're wet and high you still it's so what you have to like protect yourself from like bugs and bushes and everything else and you just it was a completely different suffer
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Why the universe seems...
of the very small and the very large? I genuinely don't know the answer. I wonder whether we might help ourselves to understand, say, quantum theory, if we brought up children to play computer games beginning in early childhood, which had a make-believe world of balls going through two slits on a screen,
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Schrödinger's cat: A...
But if you repeat this experiment many times, keeping track of all the individual detections, you'll see them trace out a pattern that's characteristic of wave a set of stripes - regions with many electrons separated by regions where there are none at all. Block one of the slits and the stripes go away.
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Why do cats have...
Meanwhile, nocturnal geckos have pupils that shrink into slits studded with pinholes in higher light conditions. Each pinhole projects a separate, sharp image onto the geckos retina. Scientists think that comparing these different inputs might help the gecko judge distance without having to move.
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Demystifying quantum...
sending electrons one at a time at a barrier with slits cut in it each individual electron is detected at a specific place at a specific time just like a particle but as we add more and more and more electrons all of them together build up a pattern that's characteristic of wave behavior richard
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Particles and waves: The...
shooting single electrons at a barrier with slits cut in it. Each electron is detected at a specific place at a specific time, like a particle. But when you repeat the experiment many times, all the individual electrons trace out a pattern of stripes, characteristic of wave behavior.
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Can we create new senses...
Imagine that you are a bloodhound dog. Your whole world is about smelling. You've got a long snout that has 200 million scent receptors in it, and you have wet nostrils that attract and trap scent molecules, and your nostrils even have slits so you can take big nosefuls of air.
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How do dogs "see" with...
And unlike our clumsy way of breathing in and out through the same passage, dogs exhale through slits at the side of their nose, creating swirls of air that help draw in new odor molecules and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs.
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Why Dogs Stick Their...
the side slits in their nostrils as the expelled air rotates it helps draw more sand into the news this two-week current helps a dog gather sand
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
I would rather slit my wrist than go through it. It was the feeling all the time like that feeling you have if you're walking and you slip or trip and the ground is rushing up at you, but instead of lasting half a second, the way that does, it lasted for six months. It's a sensation of being afraid all the time
Video examples
My Life As an Adventure...
figure out a way to kind of deal with the cold and then slit your self down here it's just mud and heat and wet you know and and even if you're wet and high you still it's so what you have to like protect yourself from like bugs and bushes and everything else and you just it was a completely different suffer
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
of the very small and the very large? I genuinely don't know the answer. I wonder whether we might help ourselves to understand, say, quantum theory, if we brought up children to play computer games beginning in early childhood, which had a make-believe world of balls going through two slits on a screen,
Video examples
Schrödinger's cat: A...
But if you repeat this experiment many times, keeping track of all the individual detections, you'll see them trace out a pattern that's characteristic of wave a set of stripes - regions with many electrons separated by regions where there are none at all. Block one of the slits and the stripes go away.
Video examples
Why do cats have...
Meanwhile, nocturnal geckos have pupils that shrink into slits studded with pinholes in higher light conditions. Each pinhole projects a separate, sharp image onto the geckos retina. Scientists think that comparing these different inputs might help the gecko judge distance without having to move.
Video examples
Demystifying quantum...
sending electrons one at a time at a barrier with slits cut in it each individual electron is detected at a specific place at a specific time just like a particle but as we add more and more and more electrons all of them together build up a pattern that's characteristic of wave behavior richard
Video examples
Particles and waves: The...
shooting single electrons at a barrier with slits cut in it. Each electron is detected at a specific place at a specific time, like a particle. But when you repeat the experiment many times, all the individual electrons trace out a pattern of stripes, characteristic of wave behavior.
Video examples
Can we create new senses...
Imagine that you are a bloodhound dog. Your whole world is about smelling. You've got a long snout that has 200 million scent receptors in it, and you have wet nostrils that attract and trap scent molecules, and your nostrils even have slits so you can take big nosefuls of air.
Video examples
How do dogs "see" with...
And unlike our clumsy way of breathing in and out through the same passage, dogs exhale through slits at the side of their nose, creating swirls of air that help draw in new odor molecules and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs.
Video examples
Why Dogs Stick Their...
the side slits in their nostrils as the expelled air rotates it helps draw more sand into the news this two-week current helps a dog gather sand
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Dean-Charles Chapman
English Actor
When I first signed on to play Tommen, I started speculating about when he was going to die. I sort of knew he wouldn't be the last one on the throne, but Tommen doesn't really deserve to have his throat slit or his stomach jabbed. In a way, Tommen died the way he was - it was a peaceful death.
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Vivienne Westwood
English Designer
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
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Lizzy Caplan
American Actress
I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?
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Joan Allen
American Actress
It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.
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Douglas Trumbull
American Director
My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
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Andrea Pirlo
Italian Athlete
There were times we were kept in our dressing room until late at night because it wasn't safe to go home. Our bus would get attacked, the tires slit.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Jose Rodriguez
American Public Servant
The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.
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Ronnie Spector
American Musician
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
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Michael Jackson
American Singer
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
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Dean-Charles Chapman
English Actor
When I first signed on to play Tommen, I started speculating about when he was going to die. I sort of knew he wouldn't be the last one on the throne, but Tommen doesn't really deserve to have his throat slit or his stomach jabbed. In a way, Tommen died the way he was - it was a peaceful death.
Quote examples
Vivienne Westwood
English Designer
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
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Lizzy Caplan
American Actress
I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?
Quote examples
Joan Allen
American Actress
It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.
Quote examples
Douglas Trumbull
American Director
My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
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Andrea Pirlo
Italian Athlete
There were times we were kept in our dressing room until late at night because it wasn't safe to go home. Our bus would get attacked, the tires slit.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Jose Rodriguez
American Public Servant
The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.
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Ronnie Spector
American Musician
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
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Michael Jackson
American Singer
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
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