What does sliver mean?
Definitions for sliver
ˈslɪv ərsliv·er
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sliver.
Princeton's WordNet
splinter, slivernoun
a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
"he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"
paring, sliver, shavingverb
a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
sliver, splinterverb
divide into slivers or splinters
splinter, sliververb
break up into splinters or slivers
"The wood splintered"
sliververb
form into slivers
"sliver wood"
GCIDE
Slivernoun
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment, as of glass; a splinter.
Wiktionary
slivernoun
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
slivernoun
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.
slivernoun
Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
slivernoun
A narrow high-rise apartment building.
sliververb
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
Etymology: sliver from sliven, from slifan (as in toslifan).
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Slivernoun
A branch torn off. Sliver, in Scotland, still denotes a slice cut off: as, he took a large sliver of the beef.
Etymology: from the verb.
There on the pendant boughs, her coronet weed
Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy coronet and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.To SLIVE, To SLIVERverb
To split; to divide longwise; to tear off longwise.
Etymology: slifan , Saxon.
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew,
Sliver’d in the moons eclipse. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
Wikipedia
Sliver
Sliver is a song by the American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. The song was released as a non-album single by the band's then record label, Sub Pop, in September 1990. The same recording was re-released on the compilation album Incesticide by DGC in December 1992, and a new music video was released to promote the album.
ChatGPT
sliver
A sliver is a small, thin, narrow piece or fragment that has been cut, torn, or broken off from something larger. It often has a sharp or pointed end. This term is frequently used to refer to a piece of wood, metal, glass, or other hard materials. Additionally, in the field of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), a sliver is a narrow polygon between two others, often caused by digitizing errors.
Webster Dictionary
Sliververb
to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood
Slivernoun
a long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter
Slivernoun
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 preceeds spinning
Slivernoun
bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings
Etymology: [See Slive, v. t.]
Wikidata
Sliver
Sliver is a novel by U.S. author Ira Levin about the mysterious people in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building, especially after a new tenant — an attractive young working woman in publishing — has moved in. Phillip Noyce directed a film, Sliver, based on the book, which was released in 1993.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sliver
sliv′ėr, or slī′vėr, v.t. to split, to tear off lengthwise, to slice.—n. a piece cut or rent off, a slice: a continuous strand of loose untwisted wool or other fibre.—v.i. Slive, to slide, skulk. [A.S. slífan, to cleave.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
sliver
An old term for a sluice. Also, any thin piece of split wood used as a filling. Also, a short slop wrapper, formerly called a sliving.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SLIVER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sliver is ranked #144141 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Sliver surname appeared 115 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sliver.
82.6% or 95 total occurrences were White.
6% or 7 total occurrences were Black.
4.3% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
4.3% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Anagrams for sliver »
livers
silver
Silver
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sliver in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sliver in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of sliver in a Sentence
That's a tiny sliver of their potential.
We lost more than Belle yesterday. One thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement is that Belle was surrounded yesterday by her church family that she loved fiercely and vice versa, as senseless as this tragedy was, our Belle would not have been able to deal with losing so much family yesterday.
We gave Evan the last rites and then we turned off her life support, she was declared brain dead…The hospital kept giving me a sliver of hope. I knew it was wrong, but I wanted it to be true. So I hung on for a week. It’s rough. I feel like I’ve been very, very beaten. I hurt from head to toe with the pain of losing my daughter.
Any sliver of optimism on the trade war front will be viewed in a very positive light, surely both parties can't be happy to move forward with their scorched earth policy.
When we talk about MS-13 and the cartels, what do we mean? We mean international criminal organizations that turn cities and suburbs into warzones, that rape and kill innocent civilians, and who profit by smuggling poison and other human beings across our borders, … It is here on this very sliver of land—on this border—that we take our stand. It is a direct threat to our legal system, peace and prosperity.
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- flisDanish
- Splitter, kleiner Teil, kleines Stück, Faserband, BandGerman
- edificio, astilla, rascacielos, cebo lengüetaSpanish
- tappura, säle, lastu, aivina, rohdinFinnish
- gratte-ciel, éclat, écharde, languette, tourFrench
- sliverIrish
- flís, flaskiIcelandic
- grattacielo, scaglia, frammento, scheggiaItalian
- 찢어진 조각Korean
- skaidaLatvian
- drzazgaPolish
- lascaPortuguese
- surcea, așchieRomanian
- ще́пкаRussian
- trskaSlovene
- flisa, livagn, speta, stickaSwedish
- şerit, kıymık, kordon, ince dilimTurkish
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