splinter
see also: Splinter
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Splinter
Etymology
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see also: Splinter
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.
Nounsplinter (plural splinters)
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
- (long sharp fragment) shard, spelk, spill.
- (group formed by splitting) faction, splinter group.
- French: éclat, esquille, écharde
- German: Splitter, Splinter, Schiefer, Spreißel
- Italian: scheggia
- Portuguese: farpa
- Russian: ще́пка
- Spanish: wood astilla, bone or metal esquirla
- French: faction
- German: Splittergruppe
- Italian: fazione
- Portuguese: facção
- Russian: отщепенец
From the noun splinter.
Verbsplinter (splinters, present participle splintering; simple past and past participle splintered)
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
- The tall tree splintered during the storm.
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- His third kick splintered the door.
- 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy.
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
- The unpopular new policies splintered the company.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- 1659, Matthew Wren, Monarchy Asserted Or The State of Monarchicall & Popular Government:
- it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.
- German: zersplittern
- Italian: scheggiarsi
- Portuguese: esfarpar
- Russian: расщепляться
- Spanish: astillar
- German: zersplittern
- Italian: scheggiare
- Portuguese: esfarpar
- Russian: расщеплять
- Spanish: astillar
- Italian: fare a pezzi, dividere
Splinter
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch - and North German Splinter.
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