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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024slash1 /slæʃ/USA pronunciation v. - to cut with a violent sweeping stroke, as with a knife or sword: [~ + object]She had slashed her wrists.[no object]to slash at the weeds with a sickle.
- to cut or reduce:[~ + object]to slash salaries.
n. [countable] - a sweeping stroke, as with a knife or pen.
- Pathologya cut or mark made with such a stroke.
- virgule.
- a reduction:a slash in prices.
- Clothinga decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024slash1 (slash),USA pronunciation v.t. - to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- to lash;
whip. - to cut, reduce, or alter:The editors slashed the story to half its length.
- to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
- to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.
v.i. - to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes;
make one's way by cutting. - to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.
n. - a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- Pathologya cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
- a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:a drastic slash of prices.
- a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
- Printingvirgule.
- Ecology(in forest land)
- an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
- the debris itself.
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- Middle English slaschen 1350–1400
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged abridge, abbreviate.
slash2 (slash),USA pronunciation n. - EcologyOften, slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.
- origin, originally uncertain 1645–55, American.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: slash /slæʃ/ vb (transitive)- to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
- to lash with a whip
- to make large gashes in: to slash tyres
- to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
- chiefly US to criticize harshly
- to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
- to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
n - a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
- a cut or rent made by such a stroke
- a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
- US Canadian littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
Also called: diagonal, forward slash, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule a short oblique stroke used in text to separate items of information, such as days, months, and years in dates (18/7/80), alternative words (and/or), numerator from denominator in fractions (55/103), etc- Brit slang the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash)
Etymology: 14th Century slaschen, perhaps from Old French esclachier to break |