From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slash
n 1: a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
[syn: cut, gash, slash, 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, slash, virgule, diagonal,
stroke, separatrix]
4: a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument [syn:
slash, gash]
v 1: cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete [syn:
slash, 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, slash, strap,
trounce]
3: cut open; "she slashed her wrists" [syn: slash, 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, slash, toss,
jactitate]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
oblique stroke
slash
<character> "/". Common names include: (forward) slash;
stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal;
solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat.
Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and
to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence
also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in
several programs.
(1996-09-24)
From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
slash
n.
Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII
for other synonyms.