slit

adj 1: having a long narrow cut; "his poor slit throat"

2: having a narrow opening; "a slit skirt revealed shapely

legs"; "a knife with a slitted blade" [syn: {slitted}]

n 1: a long narrow opening

2: obscene terms for female genitals [syn: {cunt}, {puss}, {pussy},

{nooky}]

3: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn: {incision},

{scratch}, {notch}, {prick}, {dent}]

4: a narrow fissure

v 1: make a clean cut through; "slit her throat" [syn: {slice}]

2: cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim"

blit

/blit/ 1. To copy a large array of bits from one part of a

computer's memory to another part, particularly when the

memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display

screen. "The storage allocator picks through the table and

copies the good parts up into high memory, and then blits it

all back down again." See {bitblt}, {BLT}, {dd}, {cat},

{blast}, {snarf}. More generally, to perform some operation

(such as toggling) on a large array of bits while moving them.

2. Sometimes all-capitalised as "BLIT": an early experimental

{bit-mapped} {terminal} designed by Rob Pike at {Bell Labs},

later commercialised as the {AT&T 5620}. (The folk etymology

from "Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal" is incorrect. Its

creators liked to claim that "Blit" stood for the Bacon,

Lettuce, and Interactive Tomato).

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-11-16)