Difference between Slice and Slit

What is the difference between Slice and Slit?

Slice as a verb is to cut into slices. while Slit as a verb is to cut a narrow opening.

Slice

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cut into slices. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That which is thin and broad. A thin, broad piece cut off. A piece of pizza. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. A broad, thin piece of plaster. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. A salver, platter, or tray. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. A removable sliding bottom to galley. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.

Example sentence: I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

Slit

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cut a narrow opening.To split in two parts.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A narrow cut or opening; a slot.The opening of the vagina.A derogatory name for a woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

Example sentence: The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.

We hope you now know whether to use Slice or Slit in your sentence.

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