splinter
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tər noun
1.
a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
verb (used with object)
3.
to split or break into splinters.
4.
to break off (something) in splinters.
5.
to split or break (a larger group) into separate factions or independent groups.
6.
Obsolete. to secure or support by a splint or splints, as a broken limb.
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verb (used without object)
7.
to be split or broken into splinters.
8.
to break off in splinters.
Related forms
splin·ter·less, adjective
splin·ter·y, adjective
un·splin·tered, adjective
Synonyms
1. sliver. 8. separate, part, split.
1. sliver. 8. separate, part, split.
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splinter (ˈsplɪntə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a very small sharp piece of wood, glass, metal, etc, characteristically long and thin, broken off from a whole |
| 2. | a metal fragment, from the container of a shell, bomb, etc, thrown out during an explosion |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to reduce or be reduced to sharp fragments; shatter |
| 4. | to break or be broken off in small sharp fragments |
| [C14: from Middle Dutch splinter; see | |
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Word Origin & History
splinter
late 14c., from M.Du. splinter, splenter "a splinter," related to splinte (see splint). The verb is from 1580s; figurative sense from c.1600. The adjective (as in splinter party) is first recorded 1935, from the noun.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
SPLINTER definition
A PL/I interpreter with debugging features.
[Sammet 1969, p.600].
(1995-01-19)
Example sentences
Pain may not be felt and the splinter may or may not be visible.
Non-alphas spin off to form splinter packs, because it is the only way they will get to breed.
Beyond, crooked paths of water splinter out into thickets bathed in shadows.
Every thistle, splinter, butterfly over the drainage ditches.
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