What is the difference between gash and slash?
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A deep cut.
* 2006 , New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage]:
(slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009),
(slang, offensive) A woman
(slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
(slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
(slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
(slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
To make a deep, long cut, to slash.
A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.
A swift striking movement.
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The symbol , also called diagonal, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule. Also sometimes known as a forward slash, particularly in computing.
(British, slang) A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate
Slash fiction.
* 2013 , Katherine Arcement, "Diary", London Review of Books , vol. 35, no. 5:
(vulgar, slang) The female genitalia
(ice hockey) A quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs.
(US, dialect) swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes
(forestry) Coarse, fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow, etc.
(fashion) An opening in an item of clothing to show skin or a contrasting fabric underneath.
To cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc.
(ice hockey) to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms
to reduce sharply
To lash with a whip.
To crack or snap (e.g. a whip).
As nouns the difference between gash and slash
is that gash is a deep cut while slash is a swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.As verbs the difference between gash and slash
is that gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash while slash is to cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc.As a conjunction slash is
Used to connect two or more identities in a list.gash
English
Noun
(gashes)- Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
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- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
Verb
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English
Noun
(es)citation, page= , passage=Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out. }}
- Excuse me, I need to take a slash
- Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).
- (Bartlett)
- Slash generated during logging operations may increase fire hazard.
Derived terms
* backslash * foreslash * forward slash * frontslash * front slash * slashable * slashySee also
(punctuation)Verb
(es)- Iran on Thursday called on OPEC to slash output by 2 million barrels per day.
- The department store slashed its prices to attract customers.
- (King)
Derived terms
slash pileConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- I'm a teacher slash student.
- I think I'm having hallucinations slash someone is playing tricks on me