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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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rent
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?nt, IPA(key): /??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of redd?.
Noun
rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- I am asking £100 a week rent.
- A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- (obsolete) Income; revenue.
- [Bacchus] a wastor was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Finnish: ränttü
Translations
Verb
rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
- (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
Translations
See also
- hire
Etymology 2
From Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.
Noun
rent (plural rents)
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- A division or schism.
- 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
- […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
- 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
Translations
Verb
rent
- simple past tense and past participle of rend
Adjective
rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)
- That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
Anagrams
- tern, tren
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??nt/, [??æ?nd?]
Adjective
rent
- neuter singular of ren
Adverb
rent
- purely (morally)
- purely (excluding other possibility)
- quite, completely
Derived terms
- gøre rent (“to clean”)
- rent ud (“point-blank”)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nt
- IPA(key): /r?nt/
Verb
rent
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
- (archaic) plural imperative of rennen
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
rent
- neuter singular of ren
Adverb
rent
- purely
Verb
rent
- past participle of renne
References
- “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
rent
- past participle of renna
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re?nt/
Adjective
rent
- absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.
Adverb
rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)
- cleanly
- purely
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