What is another word for slits?

Pronunciation: [slˈɪts] (IPA)

Slits are narrow openings in a surface or material. They can also be referred to as apertures, perforations, or crevices. These synonyms are often used interchangeably to describe a small gap or hole, but each word carries its own nuanced meaning. For example, apertures can refer to a camera lens or other optical equipment, while perforations are generally associated with paper or cardboard materials. Crevices often imply a natural formation in rock or soil. Other synonyms for slits include fissures, cracks, and seams. Depending on the context, various words can be used to convey the same concept of a small, narrow opening.

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Usage examples for Slits

When their eyes flickered from melancholy to sudden laughter, as they did rather often, and usually on quite unexpected and incongruous occasions, they had a trick of narrowing to blue slits.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
A primitive pulley was arranged by passing the line through slits in the walrus' nose and holes in the ice.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Presently he passed the jail, a stone structure, with narrow slits for windows.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey

Famous quotes with Slits

  • We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
    Ronnie Spector
  • All the indistinguishable photons illuminate the array of N slits, or grating, simultaneously. If only one photon propagates, at any given time, then that individual photon illuminates the whole array of N slits simultaneously.
    F. J. Duarte
  • I said it again as a German might. "Rabinovitz. Ich bin Lew Rabinowitz, LR, von Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Du Kennst?" And then I spoke Yiddish. "Und ich bin ein Yid. Farshtest?" And then in English. "I am a Jew. Understand?" And then in my fractured German. "Ich bin Jude. Verstehst?" Now they didn't know where to look, but they did not want to look at me. I've got blue eyes that can turn into slits of ice, Claire still tells me, and a pale, European skin that can turn red fast when I laugh hard or get mad, and I wasn't sure they believed me.
    Joseph Heller
  • Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
    John Milton

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