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Slit vs Carve - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between slit and carve

is that slit is a narrow cut or opening; a slot while carve is a carucate.

As verbs the difference between slit and carve

is that slit is to cut a narrow opening while carve is to cut.

slit

English

(wikipedia slit)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
  • (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
  • Verb

  • To cut a narrow opening.
  • He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
  • To split in two parts.
  • To cut; to sever; to divide.
  • * Milton:
  • And slits the thin-spun life.

    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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