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
