Dictionaries › English

splinter

Pronunciation: /ˈsplɪn.tə/

The English word “splinter” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
  2. A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
  3. A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
  4. A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
  5. A fragment of a component word in a blend.

verb

  1. To come apart into long sharp fragments.
  2. To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
  3. To break, or cause to break, into factions.
  4. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

Etymology

From Middle English splenter, splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “splinter” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.