slit

Object

• throat: Soon, they all lay dead at her feet, their throats all neatly slit into macabre grins across their necks.
• mill: By 1629 Richard Foley had set up the first slitting mill in the Midlands at The Hyde.

Converse of object

cut: Use a sharp Stanley knife to cut slits in the liner across the internal width of the drain sump.

Adjective modifier

• narrow: However, narrow slits produce a much broader array of bright fringes than do wide slits.
• vertical: The purists will notice the vertical slit in the lock wall on the right hand side.
• horizontal: Near the top of the north facing wall, horizontal slits opened.
• thin: The face has long, thin eye slits surmounted by three horizontal arches of blue beads indicating eyebrows.
• tiny: They take the cataract out through a tiny slit at the edge of the sac that contains the clouded lens.

Modifies a noun

• trench: The common thread, from the office of Tony Blair to the slit trenches of local politics, is fear.
• lamp: Not all slit lamps will allow all methods to be performed.
• spectroscopy: The integral field capabilities will be used on the same nights as slit spectroscopy and imaging.
• width: The effect of these slit widths can be quite easily calculated.
• sampler: Air samples were taken continuously every two minutes with a Casella slit sampler placed within 1 meter of the dental chair.
• aperture: Above these a small slit aperture in the gable.

Noun used with modifier

• gill: Most fish have gill slits on the sides where the head joins the body.
• arcsec: The specification for the former can be estimated using the 0.25 arcsec slit width.
• throat: Dead bodies with their throats slit lay in the streets.
• arrow: Then there are the arrow slits, several on each tower.
• exit: The exit slit is movable ( ± 10 cm ).
• ventilation: I now have a little PCB edge sticking out one of the ventilation slits on the side of the machine.