Slash vs Thrust - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between slash and thrust

is that slash is to reduce sharply while thrust is to push or drive with force; to shove.

As nouns the difference between slash and thrust

is that slash is a swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc while thrust is an attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

As verbs the difference between slash and thrust

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

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.

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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

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
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "slash") English coordinating conjunctions
thrust
English

Noun
(en noun)
(fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.

A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)

The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"

The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.

(figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.

Ostensibly, the class was about public health in general, but the main thrust was really sex education.

Synonyms
* (push, stab, or lunge forward ): break, dart, grab * (force generated by propulsion ): lift, push * (primary effort or goal ): focus, gist, point
Verb

(lb) To make advance with .

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(lb) To something upon someone.

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(lb) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.

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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

(lb) To push or drive with force; to shove.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Into a dungeon thrust , to work with slaves.

(lb) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:And thrust between my father and the god.

To stab; to pierce; usually with through .

Synonyms
* (advance with force) attack, charge, rush * (force upon someone) compel, charge, force * (push out or extend rapidly and powerfully) dart, reach, stab
Anagrams
* * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English irregular verbs