Slash Meaning and Definition


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What is the definition Slash? What is its meaning in the dictionary? How to pronounce? Example sentences, Words starting with Slash, Derivations, Related sentences, Synonyms, Antonyms, Words ending with Slash and more...

Slash meaning

Word: Slash

How to pronounce: slæʃ

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Cut (something) with a violent sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword.

Example sentences: "A tire was slashed on my car"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A cut made with a wide, sweeping stroke.

Example sentences: "The man took a mighty slash at his head with a large sword"

2. An oblique stroke (/) in print or writing, used between alternatives (e.g. and/or), in fractions (e.g. 3/4), in ratios (e.g. miles/day), or between separate elements of a text.

Example sentences: "Sentence breaks are highlighted by slashes"

3. Debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees.

Example sentences: "The mountainsides were strewn with slash"

Conjunction

Definitions:

1. Used to link alternatives or words describing or denoting a dual (or multiple) function or nature.

Noun

Definitions:

1. A tract of swampy ground, especially in a coastal region.

Example sentences: "Slash Pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat."


Synonyms:

forward slash

virgule

solidus

lash

whip

slit

incision

gash

shear

stroke

slice

laceration

chop

cut

diagonal

rip

thrash

flog

tear


Antonyms:

backslash


Derivations:

slashing

slashed


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Slash in Other Languages...

Spanish: Recortar

German: Schrägstrich

French: Oblique

Italian:

Turkish: Eğik


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