sliver
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
sliver (plural slivers)
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
- A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
- (regional US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- French: écharde, éclat
- German: Splitter, kleiner Teil, kleines Stück, Spreißel
- Italian: scheggia, frammento, scaglia, spezzone
- Portuguese: lasca
- Russian: ще́пка
- Spanish: astilla
- German: Band, Faserband
- French: languette
- Spanish: cebo lengüeta
- French: tour, gratte-ciel
- Italian: grattacielo
- Russian: дом-точка
- Spanish: edificio, rascacielos
sliver (slivers, present participle slivering; past and past participle slivered)
- (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
- to sliver wood
- 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598 ↗:
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