Slit vs Cleavage - What's the difference?
slit | cleavage |
A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
(vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
To cut a narrow opening.
To split in two parts.
To cut; to sever; to divide.
* Milton:
The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.
(mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.
(biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.
The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.
* 1946 , "Cinema: Cleavage and the Code", Time , 5 Aug 1946:
(chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
(politics) The division of voters into voting blocs.
As nouns the difference between slit and cleavage
is that slit is a narrow cut or opening; a slot while cleavage is the act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.As a verb slit
is to cut a narrow opening.slit
English
(wikipedia slit)Noun
(en noun)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. […].}}
Verb
- He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
- And slits the thin-spun life.
cleavage
English
Noun
(en noun)- Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage " (Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections).