sliver
A long piece cut or rent offA long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
» I'd only like a sliver, please.
Значение
значений: 6A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
Splitter, kleiner Teil, kleines Stück
ще́пкаščépka, оско́локoskólok
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
(Канада, Essex, Kent)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.
Band, Faserband
Bait made of pieces of small fish.
(New York, США)A narrow high-rise apartment building.
дом-точкаdom-točka
A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
Примеры
предложений: 8I'd only like a sliver, please.
I'll take a sliver of the cake.
I ate three slivers of the pie.
Tom has yogurt topped with slivered almonds for breakfast.
deTom isst zum Frühstück Joghurt mit gestifteten Mandeln.
There's a sliver of hope in this week's news, at least.
Переводы
языков: 7По значениям 2
По значениям 2
Происхождение
From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”),From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
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