slash
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
conj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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natural-sciences
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skating
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typography
Etymology: Late Middle English, originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Perhaps of imitative origin, or possibly from Old French esclachier (“to break in pieces”), a variant of esclater, which is likely a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *slaitan (“to slit, tear”).
Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.
Inflected forms:
form: slashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slashing action or motion:
pos: noun
examples: A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
gloss: A slashing action or motion:
pos: noun
examples: He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.
gloss: A slashing action or motion:
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
gloss: A mark made by slashing:
pos: noun
examples: He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
gloss: A mark made by slashing:
pos: noun
gloss: Something resembling such a mark:
pos: noun
gloss: Something resembling such a mark:
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: 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.
gloss: Something resembling such a mark:
pos: noun
examples: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
gloss: Something resembling such a mark:
pos: noun
tags: often
proscribed
gloss: Something resembling such a mark:
pos: noun
tags: broadly
idiomatic
gloss: Something resembling such a mark:
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.
gloss: A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).
gloss: To cut or attempt to cut
pos: verb
examples: They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.
She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.
gloss: To cut or attempt to cut
pos: verb
gloss: To cut or attempt to cut
pos: verb
gloss: To cut or attempt to cut
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: All prices slashed!
Competition forced them to slash prices.
Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.
gloss: To cut or attempt to cut
pos: verb
gloss: To cut or attempt to cut
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
gloss: To strike violently and randomly, particularly
pos: verb
gloss: To strike violently and randomly
pos: verb
gloss: To move quickly and violently.
pos: verb
gloss: To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
pos: verb
gloss: To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
examples: The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.
gloss: To write slash fiction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Having read slash for other fandoms (mainly X-Files and Sentinel), I can say the whole gay issue gets dealt with more often in that slash than it does in Trek slash. That's not to say that all the slashers who slash in a "modern-era" show deal with AIDS, homophobia and other gay issues, but some of them do.
gloss: Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
pos: conj
tags: Canada
US
examples: Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter.
What this, the Slashie, means is that you consider me the best actor slash model and not the other way around.
“It’s been a joke-slash-tragedy,” the restaurant host, 29, said of the president’s tumultuous far-right administration as she cast her vote against him in her country’s most important election in decades.
“Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
gloss: Used to list alternatives.
pos: conj
tags: Canada
US
examples: Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.
Read: Alternatives can be marked by the slash-slash-stroke-slash-solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.
Synonyms: slash mark
solidus
stroke
forward slash
forward stroke
foreslash
frontslash
front slash
virgule
shilling mark
slants
slant lines
separatrix
scratch comma
oblique
oblique mark
oblique stroke
oblique dash
diagonal
diagonal mark
virgula
virgil
whack
bar
lash
scourge
thrash
crack
Antonyms: backslash
Related words: apostrophe
curly brackets
brace
square bracket
bracket
colon
comma
dash
ellipsis
exclamation mark
fraction slash
guillemet
hyphen
interpunct
interrobang
parentheses (US
Canada)
full stop
period
question mark
quotation marks
semicolon
slash or stroke
space
Derived words: backslash
backward slash
bandslash
boyslash
buddyslash
dot dot slash
enemyslash
femmeslash
femslash
foreslash
frontslash
hack-and-slash
non-slash
popslash
powerslash
pre-slash
Scullyslash
slashable
slash-and-burn
slash area
slash bunt
slash chord
slashdom
slash dupe
slashfic
slash fiction
slash fire
slash hook
slashie
slash line
slash-mark
slash mark
slash movie
slash pine
slash pocket
slash print
slashtag
slashy
slashzine
femslasher
slash down
slasher
slash off
slash out
slash pile
slash up
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خَطّ مَائِل
roman: ḵaṭṭ māʔil
lang: Bashkir
word: кәсер
roman: kəser
lang: Belarusian
word: каса́я ры́ска
roman: kasája rýska
lang: Belarusian
word: слэш
roman: sleš
lang: Bulgarian
word: наклоне́на черта́
roman: naklonéna čertá
lang: Catalan
word: barra
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 斜線號 /斜线号
roman: xiéxiànhào
lang: Czech
word: lomítko
lang: Danish
word: skråstreg
lang: Dutch
word: schuine streep
lang: Esperanto
word: oblikvo
lang: Finnish
word: vinoviiva
lang: Finnish
word: kauttaviiva
lang: Finnish
word: kautta
lang: French
word: barre oblique
lang: French
word: barre
lang: Galician
word: barra
lang: German
word: Bruchstrich
lang: German
word: Schrägstrich
lang: Greek
word: δεξιότροπη κάθετος
roman: dexiótropi káthetos
lang: Greek
word: κάθετος
roman: káthetos
lang: Hebrew
word: לוֹכְסָן
roman: lokhsán
lang: Hungarian
word: perjel
lang: Hungarian
word: ferde vonal
lang: Hungarian
word: törtvonal
lang: Icelandic
word: skástrik
lang: Irish
word: fleasc
lang: Italian
word: barra
lang: Italian
word: sbarretta obliqua
lang: Italian
word: sbarretta
lang: Japanese
word: スラッシュ
roman: surasshu
lang: Japanese
word: 斜線
roman: shasen
lang: Japanese
word: スラント
roman: suranto
lang: Korean
word: 빗금
roman: bitgeum
lang: Korean
word: 슬래시
roman: seullaesi
lang: Macedonian
word: ко́са цр́та
roman: kósa cŕta
lang: Māori
word: rītaha
lang: Māori
word: tohu rītaha
lang: Māori
word: hahae
lang: Norman
word: slache
lang: Norman
word: slache en avant
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skråstrek
lang: Polish
word: ukośnik
lang: Portuguese
word: barra
lang: Portuguese
word: barra oblíqua
lang: Romanian
word: bară
lang: Romanian
word: slash
lang: Romanian
word: bară oblică
lang: Russian
word: слеш
roman: slɛš
lang: Russian
word: слэш
roman: slɛš
lang: Russian
word: коса́я черта́
roman: kosája čertá
lang: Russian
word: коса́я
roman: kosája
lang: Russian
word: дробь
roman: drobʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: коса црта
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kosa crta
lang: Slovak
word: lomka
lang: Slovene
word: poševnica
lang: Spanish
word: barra oblicua
lang: Spanish
word: barra
lang: Spanish
word: slash
lang: Spanish
word: diagonal
lang: Swahili
word: alama ya mkwaju
lang: Swahili
word: mkwaju
lang: Swedish
word: snedstreck
lang: Swedish
word: streck
lang: Thai
word: ทับ
roman: táp
lang: Turkish
word: bölü
lang: Turkish
word: taksim
lang: Ukrainian
word: коса́ ри́ска
roman: kosá rýska
lang: Ukrainian
word: слеш
roman: sleš
lang: Vietnamese
word: dấu gạch chéo
lang: Vietnamese
word: dấu xuyệt chéo
lang: Vietnamese
word: dấu xẹt chéo