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Slit vs Rupture - What's the difference?

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Slit is a related term of rupture.


As nouns the difference between slit and rupture

is that slit is a narrow cut or opening; a slot while rupture is a burst, split, or break.

As verbs the difference between slit and rupture

is that slit is to cut a narrow opening while rupture is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

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.

    rupture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burst, split, or break.
  • * Milton
  • Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
  • A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  • * E. Everett
  • He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
  • (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
  • (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
  • Verb

    (ruptur)
  • (intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
  • See also

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