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Slit vs Indentation - What's the difference?

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Slit is a related term of indentation.


As nouns the difference between slit and indentation

is that slit is a narrow cut or opening; a slot while indentation is the act of indenting or state of being indented.

As a verb slit

is to cut a narrow opening.

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.

    indentation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of indenting or state of being indented.
  • A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
  • A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
  • The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
  • A measure of the distance from the flush line; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.