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Slit vs Sunder - What's the difference?

slit | sunder | Related terms |

Slit is a related term of sunder.


As a noun slit

is a narrow cut or opening; a slot.

As a verb slit

is to cut a narrow opening.

As a preposition sunder is

without.

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.

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    sunder

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
    • Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at sundry.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
  • To , separate.
    • {{quote-book
    , year=2003 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dean Barton , title=Searching for the Evergreen Man , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Llumina Press , isbn=9781932047233 , page=69 , passage=… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders' into things; he saw Knowledge before it '''sunders''' into knowing; he saw Integrity before it '''sunders''' in integrals; he saw Unity before it ' sunders into units. }}
  • (UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
    • (Halliwell)
    Quotations
    * 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.
    Derived terms
    * asunder * sunderance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a separation into parts; a division or severance
  • * 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
    • He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
    I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
    And went with half my life about my ways.

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