What's the difference between gash and slit?

Gash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
  • (n.) A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Mott came out Ajao cut him across the face, leaving a three inch gash on his cheek.
  • (2) When he made Armando Iannucci laugh (Oliver worked on his 2003 topical review show Gash ), he told himself, "if that's all I get to do, if it doesn't work out then that's fine, that's more than enough.
  • (3) The lawyer friend with whom he exchanged the emails also referred to women as "gash".
  • (4) His torso was cut open, gashed deep to the navel, and the index finger of his right hand torn off.
  • (5) The crowd are warming to these game Koreans ... 27 min: Jong is down receiving treatment to an ugly gash on his thigh.
  • (6) He told the Associated Press that the photo he posted on his Twitter account, showing Saqer's body covered with bruises and gashes, was genuine.
  • (7) With the approach of Monday's meeting of a Premier League committee that will consider the matter, it has also emerged that the lawyer who is said to have referred to women as "gash" in the email exchange is under investigation by the City law firm that employs him.
  • (8) Gash says green army projects have also been brought into the area which give people work for about six months.
  • (9) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
  • (10) The toilet is shared, and one night we bumped into a drunk man with a gash on his head, which was frightening for Evelina.
  • (11) The former Manchester United and Barcelona goalkeeper was having a fine game but, when recovering from a bad gash caused by a Navas challenge, Valdés could do nothing about City’s superb opener.
  • (12) Put their bodies in the way of the goal, gash their heads and get a Terry Butcher headscarf.
  • (13) With her four companions, who had linked arms around Birmingham in 1998 as part of the Jubilee Debt campaign, and travelled to Edinburgh in 2005 for Make Poverty History, Gash said it was important to keep banging the drum.
  • (14) At last Butcher, the white man's burden, was taken off but when Wright suffered a badly gashed head he needed six stitches but says he will be fit for the semi-final in a collision with Milla in the 85th minute, England had to reorganise.
  • (15) When I saw the gash in the skull, and the twisted spine, the hair stood up on the back of my neck."
  • (16) Others showed another man with a deep gash in his cheek and blood on the ground.
  • (17) • Catherine Needham, 21st Century Public Servant: Literature on leadership • Mental Health Cop: Evidence Based Policing • Tom Gash, Institute for Government: Decentralisation power plays • Zarathustra, Not So Big Society: Physical healthcare for people with mental health problems: Why do we so often get it wrong?
  • (18) There is another scar below one knee and a deep gash above one eye that has healed into a livid scar.
  • (19) Joanna Gash was Liberal MP for the area from 1996 until she retired at the 2013 election after being elected mayor of the Shoalhaven.
  • (20) In 1961, he broke a bone in his left ankle in a collision on the polo field and in 1963, again playing polo, he suffered a gash to his left arm.

Slit


Definition:

  • () 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Slit
  • (n.) To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
  • (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
  • (n.) To cut; to sever; to divide.
  • (n.) A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
  • (2) In normal kidneys fixed by perfusion with tannic acid and glutaraldehyde, glomerular slit diaphragms have been reported to consist of highly ordered and isoporous substructures with a zipper-like configuration.
  • (3) Neutral dextran clearances for radii greater than 30 A were elevated during the PEAK period, and, concurrently, there was extensive intraglomerular microthrombosis, obliteration of foot processes, and disruption of filtration slit diaphragms.
  • (4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
  • (5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
  • (6) This flap is formed by a triangle-shaped excision combined with cranial and caudal slitting of the periosteum.
  • (7) Negative slit smears for AFB from the nodules repeatedly and the histology of one on the skin nodules clinched the diagnosis of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis.
  • (8) Incisional slit grafting utilizes larger numbers of smaller grafts than does traditional punch grafting.
  • (9) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
  • (10) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
  • (11) Light scatter from epithelial cells in a slit-scan flow system is modeled using the Fraunhofer condition of scalar diffraction theory.
  • (12) Depending on the slit width of the illumination source, a typical endothelial photomicrograph contains three or four distinct zones.
  • (13) By using a slit plate, scanographic arterial studies can be performed with a tomographic attachment of an X-ray unit that is normally used for routine radiographic examinations.
  • (14) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
  • (15) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
  • (16) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
  • (17) For the purpose of covering the demerits of the conventional sliding tube, a new slit sliding tube which is made up of three parts was devised by us.
  • (18) The optimal slit width in the ordinary roentgenokymographic device was found to equal 0.5+0.03 mm, and in the protected roentgenokymographic device the investigation of adults and children indicated 0.15+0.02 and 0.22+0.02 mm, respectively.
  • (19) Sequential photomicrographs of RBCs passing through interendothelial slits (IES) in walls of venous sinuses in rat spleen were obtained by video recording in vivo microscopic views.
  • (20) At both stages and with both dextran fractions the following results were obtained: (a) dextran was retained for up to 3 h (the longest interval studied) in the plasma at high concentration; (b) there was a sharp drop in the concentration of tracer between the inner, looser portions of the basement membrane (lamina rara interna) and its outer denser portions (lamina densa), (c) accumulation of dextran was seen in the mesangial areas with time; and (d) no accumulation of dextran was seen in the slits at any time.