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sliver

Pronunciation: /ˈslɪvə/

The English word “sliver” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
  2. 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.
  4. Bait made of pieces of small fish.
  5. A narrow high-rise apartment building.
  6. A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.

verb

  1. To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

Etymology

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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