Meaning

6 senses

  1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.

    Splitter, kleiner Teil, kleines Stück

    ще́пкаščépka, оско́локoskólok

  2. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.

    (Canada, Essex, Kent)Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.

  3. 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

  4. Bait made of pieces of small fish.

  5. (New York, US)A narrow high-rise apartment building.

    дом-точкаdom-točka

  6. A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.

More definitions
  • 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

Examples

8 sentences

  1. Our evidence is no more than a tiny sliver of solid knowledge amidst the vast bog of doubts and speculations.

    Наші факти - не більше ніж крихітна скалка міцного знання у розлогому багні сумлівів та спекуляцій. — shanghainese

    shanghainese · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. I'd only like a sliver, please.

    shekitten · Tatoeba · CC0 · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. I'll take a sliver of the cake.

    shekitten · Tatoeba · CC0 · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  4. I ate three slivers of the pie.

    rul · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  5. Tom has yogurt topped with slivered almonds for breakfast.

    deTom isst zum Frühstück Joghurt mit gestifteten Mandeln. — raggione

    patgfisher · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment:
New York: narrow high-rise apartment building:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment:
strand or slender roll of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state:

Origin

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”)).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: slivers
Singularsliver
Pluralslivers

regular

Synonyms

92 synonyms
sliceA2splinterC2spillA2bitA2ounceB2atomA2thoughtA2crumbC1glimpseB1damnB2dashB2glintB1dotB1dropA2
Close in meaning
  • a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something:paringshaving
  • a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal:splinter

Word family

7 related words
RelatedslitherC2chumslivery
Derivedslivercastingsliverlikesliver moonsliverous

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
slitslitherC2slobC1slobber

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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