Definition: 1. A wound made by cutting. 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. 4. Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete. 5. Beat severely with a whip or rod. 6. Cut open. 7. Cut drastically.
Use 'slash' in a sentence:
1. The shop plans to slash fur prices after Spring Festival.
2. Slashing is the first process in which liquid treatment is involved.
3. He paints with harsh, slashing brushstrokes.
4. Car makers could be forced to slash prices.
5. Low-level slash and burn farming doesn't harm rainforest.
6. Villages formed on the land cleared by the slash and burn agriculture practiced by small social groups.
7. Car makers could be forced to slash prices after being accused of overcharging yesterday.
8. He's just nipped out to have a slash.
9. He braced his shoulders as the snow slashed across his face.
10. We had to slash our way through the undergrowth with sticks.
11. The very nature of the initial slash-and-burn agriculture encouraged a further dependence on agriculture and the aggregation of people into denser settlements.
12. Intruders slashed and mutilated several paintings.
13. These mini-jets will slash operating costs.
14. The G-20 calls for members to slash their budget deficits.
15. Time is the key factor in the plan to slash costs.
16. Unemployment in January jumped to a 16-year high of 7. 6 percent, as 598 000 jobs were slashed from US payrolls in the worst single-month decline since December, 1974.
17. And firms have been unusually quick to slash payrolls.
18. Relative paths do not include the slash in front.
19. The nearside front tyre had been slashed.
20. Slash-and-burn farming can be good for soils provided it doesn't completely burn all the vegetation, and leaves behind charred wood.
21. He slashed at her, aiming carefully.
22. A wild cur flung itself at him with bared fangs and slashed a rent in his overcoat.
23. A mum slashed a neighbour's car tyre and challenged her to a fight after their daughters fell out.
24. The President has chosen to kick-start the economy by slashing interest rates.
25. Firms cannot slash stocks for ever.
26. He wants to trim regulation, cut taxes and slash the deficit.
27. In this case, the browser can safely add the slash.
28. This is especially so in desperately poor countries, where residents in the countryside slash and burn forests each growing season to clear space for farming.
29. The trailing slash is not an error.
30. Inmates suffered injuries ranging from stab wounds and slashes to head trauma.
31. A descendant selector is represented by a double-slash: //.
32. She joined a nearby food cooperative to slash her bill.
33. With information no longer controlled by travel agents or hidden in business networks, the travel industry was revolutionized, as greater transparency helped slash prices.
34. The result was a slash-and-build clutter that got uglier by the year.
35. He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife.
36. Yet this year the governor will probably slash funding for them.
37. The band then signed to Slash Records.
38. Note that you have to escape the slash (\) characters.
39. Someone had slashed the tyres on my car.
40. They've also slashed state subsidies to utilities and transportation.
41. Everyone agrees that subsidies have to be slashed.
42. The mayor will have to slash the city's already bare-bones budget.
43. He came within two minutes of bleeding to death after slashing his wrists.
44. Sasuke charges forward and Danzo dodges a sword slash.
45. It will slash staffing at its fleet of 770 stores, a move affecting some 3,000 employees.
46. To escape the quote, we use a backward slash to precede it.
47. You can rectify this fault if you insert a slash.
48. Her mouth was a slash of red lipstick.
49. The workforce has been slashed by half.
50. In those remote mountains people used to farm by the slash and burn method.
51. Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.
52. Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.
