Slash

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slash \Slash\, n.
     1. A long cut; a cut made at random.
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     2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show
        the lining through the openings.


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     3. [Cf. {Slashy}.] pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with
        bushes. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
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     4. A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other
        destructive agency.
  
              We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around
              the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the
              mountain fairly before us.            --Henry Van
                                                    Dyke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slash \Slash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Slashing}.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF.
     esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E.
     slate, slice, slit, v. t.]
     1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long
        slits.
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     2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King.
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     3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slash \Slash\, v. i.
     To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged
     instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to
     cut hastily and carelessly.
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           Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slash
       n 1: a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
            [syn: {cut}, {gash}, {slice}]
       2: an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris
          from logging (or fire or wind)
       3: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
          information [syn: {solidus}, {virgule}, {diagonal}, {stroke},
           {separatrix}]
       4: a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument [syn: {gash}]
       v 1: cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete [syn: {cut
            down}]
       2: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
          the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn:
           {flog}, {welt}, {whip}, {lather}, {lash}, {strap}, {trounce}]
       3: cut open; "she slashed her wrists" [syn: {gash}]
       4: cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
       5: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed
          around in his bed" [syn: {convulse}, {thresh}, {thresh
          about}, {thrash}, {thrash about}, {toss}, {jactitate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  260 Moby Thesaurus words for "slash":
     Vandyke, abbreviate, abrade, abrasion, abridge, amputate, assail,
     attack, ax, band, bar, bark, beat, beat down, bend, bias, bisect,
     blaze, blemish, blister, bloody, breach, break, breakage, burn,
     burr, burst, butcher, carve, castigate, catercorner, chafe,
     cheapen, cheapening, check, chip, chiseling, chop, claw, cleave,
     cleft, clip, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crenellate,
     crenulate, crimp, cross-hatching, curtail, cut, cut across,
     cut away, cut back, cut crosswise, cut down, cut in two, cut off,
     cut prices, dash, decline, decrease, deflate, deflation,
     delineation, demitint, depreciate, depreciation, devaluate,
     devaluation, diagonal, diagonalize, dichotomize, dissever, dive,
     dotted line, drop, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, excise,
     excoriate, fall, fall in price, fissure, flagellate, flail,
     flash burn, flay, flog, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fustigate,
     gall, gap, gash, gem-engraving, give way, glass-cutting, glyptic,
     gouge, graving, hachure, hack, hackle, haggle, hairline, half tint,
     halve, hatching, hew, horsewhip, hurt, incise, incision, indent,
     injure, injury, inscript, inscription, jag, jew down, jigsaw,
     knife, knurl, lacerate, laceration, lambaste, lance, lash, lesion,
     line, lineation, lining, lower, lowering, machicolate, maim,
     make mincemeat of, mark down, markdown, marking, maul, mill,
     mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, nick, nose dive, nose-dive,
     notch, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, pare,
     picot, pierce, pink, plummet, plummeting, plunge, price cut,
     price fall, price reduction, prune, puncture, reduce, reduction,
     rend, rent, retrench, rhomboid, rift, rip, rive, roast, run,
     rupture, sag, savage, saw, scald, scale, scallop, scar, scarify,
     scathe, scissor, scorch, score, scoring, scotch, scourge, scrape,
     scratch, scratch comma, scratching, scuff, second-degree burn,
     separatrix, serrate, sever, shave, skin, skin alive, slant,
     slant across, slash across, slashing, slice, slit, slump, snip,
     solidus, sore, splinter, split, sprain, stab, stab wound, stick,
     stipple, stippling, strain, streak, streaking, striation, strip,
     stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sunder, tear,
     third-degree burn, thrash, tint, tooling, tooth, transverse,
     trauma, traumatize, trim, trounce, type-cutting, underline,
     underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, whip, whittle,
     wound, wounds immedicable, wrench
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  slash n. Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character. See
     {ASCII} for other synonyms.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  slash
       
          {oblique stroke}