Lit vs Slit - What's the difference?
lit | slit |
(obsolete) Little.
(obsolete) Little.
(light)
(US, dialectal) To run, or light
* {{quote-news, 1988, April 8, Grant Pick, Johnny Washington's Life, Chicago Reader
, passage=With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know! }}
illuminated
* He walked down the lit corridor.
(slang) intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned
(slang) Sexually aroused (usually a female), especially visibly sexually aroused (e.g., labial swelling is present)
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
To colour; dye.
Abbreviated form of literature.
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:
Slit is a related term of lit.
In transitive terms the difference between lit and slit
is that lit is to colour; dye while slit is to cut; to sever; to divide.As nouns the difference between lit and slit
is that lit is little while slit is a narrow cut or opening; a slot.As verbs the difference between lit and slit
is that lit is past tense of light while slit is to cut a narrow opening.As an adjective lit
is little.lit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lit, lut, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lihte, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(head)citation
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* half litEtymology 3
From (etyl) lit, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 4
From (etyl) litten, liten, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(litt)Etymology 5
Short for literature.Noun
(-)Derived terms
* chick lit * lit crit * litfanAnagrams
* ----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.