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Slit Cut English German V Slita Middle Dutch

单词 slit
音标 [slit]
解释 v. 撕裂;n. 裂缝
红宝书 【英】 v.撕裂 ( sever);n. 裂缝(a long narrow cut or opening)
【同】 参考:split(分裂); slice(切开)
【例】 slit the envelope open
字源 slit (v.)
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.
slit (n.)
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."
不择手段背单词 v. 切开 = sever = split; n (长而直且狭窄的)切口
【记】源于: split(v /n 劈开); slice(v /n 切开; 切片)
趣味全助记 【记】音:撕裂它;split 分裂

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