sliver
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
Inflected forms:
form: slivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slivers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slivering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slivered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slivered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
pos: noun
examples: This is the tasting ritual, the lay Eucharist of cheese. The buyer squeezes the sliver of cheese between his fingers to test its consistency, sniffs it, and then tastes it as delicately as if it were the most subtle caviar.
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).
gloss: A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Essex
Kent
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Bait made of pieces of small fish.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrow high-rise apartment building.
pos: noun
tags: New-York
US
gloss: A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sliver wood
slips of yew,
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse
They'll sliver thee like a turnip.
Related words: chum
slither
Derived words: slivercasting
sliverlike
sliver moon
sliverous
slivery
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: треска
roman: treska
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 裂片
roman: lièpiàn
lang: Czech
word: odštěpek
lang: Czech
word: tříska
lang: Czech
word: odřezek
lang: Finnish
word: säle
lang: Finnish
word: tikku
lang: French
word: écharde
lang: French
word: éclat
lang: Galician
word: estela
lang: Galician
word: acha
lang: German
word: Splitter
lang: German
word: kleiner Teil
lang: German
word: kleines Stück
lang: German
word: Spreißel
lang: Icelandic
word: flís
lang: Icelandic
word: flaski
lang: Italian
word: scheggia
lang: Italian
word: frammento
lang: Italian
word: scaglia
lang: Italian
word: spezzone
lang: Korean
word: 조각
roman: jogak
lang: Latgalian
word: skaida
lang: Latgalian
word: ževers
lang: Latvian
word: skaida
lang: Māori
word: hōripi
lang: Māori
word: kōripi
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Spekja
lang: Portuguese
word: lasca
lang: Romanian
word: surcea
lang: Romanian
word: așchie
lang: Russian
word: ще́пка
roman: ščépka
lang: Russian
word: оско́лок
roman: oskólok
lang: Slovak
word: trieska
lang: Slovak
word: štiepka
lang: Slovene
word: trska
lang: Spanish
word: astilla
lang: Spanish
word: tira
lang: Spanish
word: esquirla
lang: Spanish
word: rebanadita
lang: Swedish
word: flisa
lang: Swedish
word: speta
lang: Swedish
word: sticka
lang: Tocharian B
word: ṣat
lang: Turkish
word: kıymık
lang: Turkish
word: ince dilim
lang: Zazaki
word: qırm