sliver

Plural: slivers

Noun

• a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
  • "it broke into slivers"
• a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
• A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
• A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
• Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
• 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.
• Bait made of pieces of small fish.
• A narrow high-rise apartment building.
• A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.

Verb

Verb Forms: slivered, slivering, slivers

• To cut or break into small, thin pieces; a small, thin piece.
• divide into slivers or splinters
• break up into splinters or slivers
• form into slivers
  • "sliver wood"
• To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

Examples

• He tried to sliver a two-letter word into a crowded space, hoping to score a few points.
• to sliver wood

Synonyms

paring, shaving, splinter, ace, atom, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, dab, damn, dash, diddly, dot, drop, dusting, fleck, flip, flyspeck, glimpse, glint, grain, halfpennyworth, hint, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, scantling, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, semblance, shard, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, slice, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, speckle, spelk, spill, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, whiff, whit

Related Words

chum, slither

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