Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - slash
Slash
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. make a sweeping or random cut or cuts with a knife, sword, whip, etc. 2 tr. make such a cut or cuts at. 3 tr. make a long narrow gash or gashes in. 4 tr. reduce (prices etc.) drastically. 5 tr. censure vigorously. 6 tr. make (one's way) by slashing. 7 tr. a lash (a person etc.) with a whip. b crack (a whip). --n. 1 a a slashing cut or stroke. b a wound or slit made by this. 2 an oblique stroke; a solidus. 3 Brit. sl. an act of urinating. 4 US debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees. Phrases and idioms slash-and-burn (of cultivation) in which vegetation is cut down, allowed to dry, and then burned off before seeds are planted. Derivatives slasher n. Etymology: ME perh. f. OF esclachier break in pieces
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I. verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1548 intransitive verb to lash out, cut, or thrash about with or as if with an edged blade, transitive verb to cut with or as if with rough sweeping strokes, cane, lash, to cut slits in (as a garment) so as to reveal a color beneath, to criticize cuttingly, to reduce sharply ; cut, II. noun Date: 1576 the act of ~ing, an ornamental slit in a garment, 3. an open tract in a forest strewn with debris (as from logging), the debris in such a tract, a mark / used typically to denote "or" (as in and/or), "and or" (as in straggler/deserter), or "per" (as in feet/second), III. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1652 a low swampy area often overgrown with brush ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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