Slash vs Carve - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between slash and carve

is that slash is a swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc while carve is a carucate.

As verbs the difference between slash and carve

is that slash is to cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc while carve is to cut.

As a conjunction slash

is Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

slash
English

Noun
(es)
A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.

A swift striking movement.

* {{quote-news
, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC 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. }}
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

Excuse me, I need to take a slash

Slash fiction.

* 2013 , Katherine Arcement, "Diary", London Review of Books , vol. 35, no. 5:

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).

(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

(Bartlett)

(forestry) Coarse, fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow, etc.

Slash generated during logging operations may increase fire hazard.

(fashion) An opening in an item of clothing to show skin or a contrasting fabric underneath.

Derived terms
* backslash * foreslash * forward slash * frontslash * front slash * slashable * slashy
See also
(punctuation)
Verb
(es)
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

Iran on Thursday called on OPEC to slash output by 2 million barrels per day.

The department store slashed its prices to attract customers.

To lash with a whip.

(King)

To crack or snap (e.g. a whip).

Derived terms
slash pile
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)

I'm a teacher slash student.

I think I'm having hallucinations slash someone is playing tricks on me

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Quotations
* (English Citations of "slash") English coordinating conjunctions
carve
English
(Carving)
Verb

(archaic) To cut.

* Tennyson

My good blade carved the casques of men.

To cut meat in order to serve it.

You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables.

To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.

to carve a name into a tree

* {{quote-book, year=1920, year_published=2008 , edition=HTML, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
, title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
(snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.

(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

* South

who could easily have carved themselves their own food.

* {{quote-news, year=2010
, date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards. }}
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

* Shakespeare

Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

Derived terms
* carver * carvery * carve out * carved in stone * carve up * carve-up
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) A carucate.

half a carve of arable land

(Burrill)

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