(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.
Snatch
Definition:
(n.) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
(n.) To seize and transport away; to rap.
(v. i.) To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
(n.) A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.
(n.) A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.
(n.) A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.
(n.) The handle of a scythe; a snead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(2) We caught snatches of a conversation with Amy Childs, star of docusoap The Only Way is Essex.
(3) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(4) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(5) But even if Greece is snatched from the brink of bankruptcy and kept in the euro in the coming days, the cause of promoting solidarity between eurozone nations has been long forgotten.
(6) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
(7) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(8) According to the Guardian, the CIA has used almost 20 airports across the UK during the period when its agents have snatched terror suspects and transferred them to countries where they may be tortured.
(9) Last week ITV snatched the rights to the French Open tennis tournament , as the BBC looks to reduce what it spends on sport as part of the "Delivering Quality First" cost-cutting initiative.
(10) He told his story in animated and confused snatches.
(11) He snatches at the ball and shoots it high over the crossbar.
(12) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
(13) They said their leaders are being killed and they no longer want to fight but they are afraid of going back to their communities.” The schoolgirls were snatched by Boko Haram militants in the north-eastern Nigerian village of Chibok in April, sparking international condemnation and the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.
(14) Shalit was captured by Palestinians who tunnelled from Gaza into Israel and killed two other members of his tank crew before snatching him.
(15) Messina Denaro was also part of the gang that in 1993 snatched Giuseppe di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a turncoat.
(16) She has a daughter, who is eight, but Miriama refuses to take her to visit her mother, who still lives in Africa and has never met her granddaughter, in case the child is snatched and taken to be cut, as Miriama's mother did to her.
(17) "I probably should have had a hat-trick, but I snatched at the last one, to be honest," Rooney said.
(18) Three others were snatched in another oil field on 3 February and their whereabouts also remain unknown.
(19) Meyers said: “That’s the face you make when your wife snatches away your newspaper and screams: ‘Whose earrings are these?’” Trump’s presidency is still in its early days: extremely early for a special prosecutor to be involved.
(20) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.