splint
A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger pieceA narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
» The fracture needs to be splinted.
Der Knochenbruch muss geschient werden.
Meaning
8 sensesA narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
щепа́ščepá, ще́пкаščépka, дра́нкаdránka
A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
(West Midlands)A splinter caught in the skin.
A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
Protrusionsschiene
A device to immobilize a body part.
Schiene, Gipsschiene
ши́наšína, лубо́кlubók
ши́наšýna
an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg)
(historical)A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
Synonym of splent coal.
A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Examples
5 sentencesThe fracture needs to be splinted.
deDer Knochenbruch muss geschient werden.
The doctor put a splint on her arm.
ruВрач наложил ей на руку шину.
He broke his arm and they had to put splints on it.
deEr brach sich den Arm, so dass er geschient werden musste.
Sami's parents splint.
If the torque is too high, the shaft might break. That's why we are using a shear splint as a torque limiter.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or MiFrom Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
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