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Slitting vs Spitting - What's the difference?

slitting | spitting |

As verbs the difference between slitting and spitting

is that slitting is while spitting is .

As nouns the difference between slitting and spitting

is that slitting is the act by which something is slit while spitting is (chiefly|archaic|medicine) expectoration.

slitting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is slit.
  • * 2011 , Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature (page 94)
    • the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings .

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    spitting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, archaic, medicine) expectoration
  • * 1837 , James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31 (page 44)
    • Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting ; all of them were stone-workers.