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fissure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fissure, Latin fissura.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??.?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f??.?/, /?f??.?/
- Homophone: fisher
Noun
fissure (plural fissures)
- A crack or opening, as in a rock.
- (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fissure (third-person singular simple present fissures, present participle fissuring, simple past and past participle fissured)
- To split, forming fissures.
Translations
References
- “fissure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- fussier, surfies
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin fissura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.sy?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
fissure f (plural fissures)
- fissure
Synonyms
- fente
Related terms
- fendre
See also
- ouverture
Verb
fissure
- first-person singular present indicative of fissurer
- third-person singular present indicative of fissurer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurer
- second-person singular imperative of fissurer
Further reading
- “fissure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
fiss?re
- vocative masculine singular of fiss?rus
Portuguese
Verb
fissure
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fissurar
- first-person singular imperative of fissurar
- third-person singular imperative of fissurar
fissure From the web:
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- what fissures are present in the brain
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slit
English
Etymology
From Old English sl?tan, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyd- (“to tear, rend (cut apart), split apart”). Possibly cognate with Latin laed- (“to strike, hurt, injure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sl?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
slit (plural slits)
- A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
- (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
- (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
Derived terms
- slit drum
Translations
Verb
slit (third-person singular simple present slits, present participle slitting, simple past slit, past participle slit or (obsolete) slitten)
- To cut a narrow opening.
- He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
- To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
- (transitive) To cut; to sever; to divide.
Translations
Adjective
slit (not comparable)
- Having a cut narrow opening
Anagrams
- &lits, List, list, lits, silt, tils
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse *slit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stl??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
slit n (genitive singular slits, no plural)
- wear and tear
Declension
Anagrams
- list
See also
- slitna
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
slit
- imperative of slite
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
slit
- inflection of slita:
- present
- imperative
Swedish
Noun
slit n
- toil, labour
Declension
Verb
slit
- imperative of slita.
Anagrams
- list, lits, stil
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sli?t/, /²?li?t/ (example of pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -ì?t
Verb
slit (preterite släit, supine sliti or slittä)
- (transitive, intransitive) To tear.
Related terms
- slet
slit From the web:
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