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sliver

sliv·er
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [sliv-er]
    • /ˈslɪv ər/
    • /ˈslɪv.ər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [sliv-er]
    • /ˈslɪv ər/

Definitions of sliver word

  • noun sliver a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter. 1
  • noun sliver any small, narrow piece or portion: A sliver of sky was visible. 1
  • noun sliver a strand of loose, untwisted fibers produced in carding. 1
  • verb with object sliver to split or cut off (a sliver) or to split or cut into slivers: to sliver a log into kindling. 1
  • verb with object sliver to form (textile fibers) into slivers. 1
  • verb without object sliver to split. 1
See all 14 definitions of sliver

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Origin of sliver

First appearance:

before 1325
One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; Middle English slivere (noun), derivative of sliven to split, Old English -slīfan (in tōslīfan to split up

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Parts of speech for Sliver

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Sliver

sliver popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for sliver

noun sliver

  • bit — A bit of something is a small part or section of it.
  • castoff — thrown away; discarded; abandoned
  • crumb — Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it.
  • flake — fake2 (defs 2, 3).
  • fragment — fragmentation

verb sliver

  • blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
  • chine — the backbone
  • chining — the backbone or spine, especially of an animal.
  • chip — Chips are long, thin pieces of potato fried in oil or fat and eaten hot, usually with a meal.
  • crack off — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
All 41 Synonyms of sliver

Top questions with sliver

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Related words

  • breaker card

    the first card in the carding process, used to open the raw stock and to convert it into sliver form.

  • card

    A card is a piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard on which something is written or printed.

  • carding

    the process of preparing the fibres of cotton, wool, etc, for spinning

  • doffer

    a person or thing that doffs.

  • drawing frame

    a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.

  • flaw

    Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
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