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Slash vs Divide - What's the difference?

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Slash is a related term of divide.


In lang=en terms the difference between slash and divide

is that slash is to reduce sharply while divide is to separate into two or more parts.

As nouns the difference between slash and divide

is that slash is a swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc while divide is a thing that divides.

As verbs the difference between slash and divide

is that slash is to cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc while divide is to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

As a conjunction slash

is .

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

    See also

    *

    divide

    English

    Verb

    (divid)
  • To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
  • a wall divides''' two houses; a stream '''divides the towns
  • * Bible, 1 Kings iii. 25
  • Divide the living child in two.
  • To share (something) by dividing it.
  • * Spenser
  • true justice unto people to divide
  • (arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
  • (arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
  • To separate into two or more parts.
  • (biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.}}
  • To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  • * Bible, Mark iii. 24
  • If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
  • * Prescott
  • Every family became now divided within itself.
  • (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
  • * 1605 , , I. ii. 107:
  • love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide .
  • (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
  • * 1608 , , I. vi. 87:
  • Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
  • To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
  • * Gibbon
  • The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
  • To mark divisions on; to graduate.
  • to divide a sextant
  • (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
  • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (split into two or more parts) cut up, disunite, partition, split, split up * (share by dividing) divvy up, divide up, share, share out * (separate into two or more parts) separate, shear, split, split up

    Antonyms

    * (split into two or more parts) combine, merge, unify, unite * (calculate times of multiplication) multiply

    See also

    * quotient * separate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that divides.
  • Stay on your side of the divide , please.
  • An act of dividing.
  • The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
  • A distancing between two people or things.
  • There is a great divide between us.
  • (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
  • If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
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