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incision
English
Etymology
From Middle English incision, from Old French incision, from Late Latin incisi? from the verb incid? (“I cut into”) + action noun suffix -i?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
incision (countable and uncountable, plural incisions)
- A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;
- Let’s purge this choler without letting blood:
- This we prescribe, though no physician;
- Deep malice makes too deep incision;
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 33,[2]
- Gunch was so humorous that Mrs. Babbitt said he must “stop making her laugh because honestly it was hurting her incision.”
- 1999, Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, Chapter 28, p. 470,[3]
- In the midst of the men a black upright stove sends out its heat. On the glowing holes at the top Ya‘qub Artin has carefully placed some chestnuts, each with a neat incision in its side.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- The act of cutting into a substance.
- 1539, Thomas Elyot (compiler), The Castel of Helthe, London, Book 3, Chapter 6,[4]
- The parte of Euacuation by lettyng of blud, is incision or cuttyng of the vayne, wherby the bloud, whiche is cause of syckenes or grefe to the hole body, or any particular part therof, doth most aptly passe.
- 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, London, pp. 94-95,[5]
- Never considering […] that these miseries of the people are still his own handy work, having smitt’n them like a forked Arrow so sore into the Kingdoms side, as not to be drawn out and cur’d without the incision of more flesh.
- 1800, William Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture, London: T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies, Epistle 4, p. 89,[6]
- Mnesarchus, early as a sculptor known,
- From nice incision of the costly stone,
- 1964, William Trevor, The Old Boys, Penguin, 2014, Chapter 21,[7]
- Slowly, as meticulously as if engaged upon a surgical incision, Mr Nox opened his mail.
- 1539, Thomas Elyot (compiler), The Castel of Helthe, London, Book 3, Chapter 6,[4]
- (obsolete) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
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Translations
Anagrams
- inosinic
French
Etymology
First known attestation 1314 in the French translation of Chirurgie by Henri de Mondeville. Learned borrowing from Latin incisi?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.si.zj??/
Noun
incision f (plural incisions)
- (medicine, general use) incision
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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
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