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Definition: Sliver |
SliverNoun1. A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders". 2. A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something. Verb1. Divide into slivers or splinters. 2. Break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered". 3. Form into slivers, as of wool. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sliver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Industry | An assemblage of fibres in rope form without twist. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | A relatively thin film or tongue of metal imperfectly attached to the surface of the steel. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SliverSynonyms: flinders (n), paring (n), shaving (n), splinter (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
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| "Sliver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.41% of the time. "Sliver" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.41% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.72% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 116 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sliver": sliver lap machine ♦ sliver lapper. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sliver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, mill, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, snip, snippet, splint, tatter), cefël (shard, Spall), bëj copash (shred, smash), ashkël (chip, kindling wood, matchwood, shaving, shavings, splinter, tinder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قطعة من الجبن, قطعة صغيرة (nub, nubble), شق إلى شظايا, شريحة (fillet, schnitzel, section, slab, slat, slice, string), شظية (fragment, ricochet, scrap, shiver, spall, splint, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цепя (cleave, hew down, knife, skive, slash, slit, splinter, split), тънко резенче, тресчица (shiver), треска (ague, chip, cod, codfish, coding, fever, fire, pyrexia, shiver, splint, the shakes), къделя, вълмо (puff, roll, saltwort), отцепвам (chip off, cut off, release, split up), отломък, образувам вълмо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 裂片 (splinter, splinters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tenký plátek, tříska (chip, Flinders, shiver, spill, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | splint (alburnum, sapwood, scab, shell, spill, splinter), spindebånd (rope band, spinning band, tape), spån (chip, cuttings, millings, planings, splinter, swarf, turnings), sliver (staple sliver), revne i rør, overvalsning (seam, spill), kaemmet fiberbaand, flig (lap, overlap, spill), fiberbunt uden snoning, fargarn og stapelfibre (staple sliver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stapelvezellont (staple sliver), splinter (splinter), schilfer (scale), scheur (burst, crack, tear), lont (fuse, wick), kamlont, kamband (tops). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فتیله نخ , چاک خوردن , قاش کردن (Slice), قاش (Plug, Slice), ته جاروب , تکه باریک (Label), تراشه کردن (Splint, Splinter), تراشه (Chip, Excelsior, Ribbon, Slither, Splint, Splinter), اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sälö (splinter), putkilastu, metallikuori (scab, shell, spill), kuori (bark, case, chancel, choir, crust, fruit skin, hull, husk, jacket, peel, shell), katkokuituhahtuva (staple sliver), katkokuituesilanka (staple sliver), hahtuva (flock, tuft, wisp of cloud), esilanka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mèche (slubbing, staple sliver), éclat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Splitter (chip, Chipping, chippings, flake, fragment, shiver, slivers, splint, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σχίζα (splint, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שבב (chip, flake, splinter), קיסם (chip, mote, splinter), פרוס" (morsel, piece, slice), רסיס (chip, drop, flake, fragment, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szilánk (chip, flaw, flinders, fragment, shard, shatter, sherd, shiver, spall, splint, splinter, splintering), szelet (band, Cantle, chip, cut, fillet, schnitzel, scrap, segment, slab, slice, snip, steak), nyújtott szalag, forgács (bur, burr, chippings, flinders, paring, raspings, shavings, shiver, shivers, spall, trimmings), fátyolszalag, csalétkül használt haldarabka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gempilan (chip, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frammento (chip, fractionary, fragment, fritter, rag, scrap, shred, snippet, splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 一縷 (a ray or sliver, a thread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いちる (a ray or sliver, a thread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 짜개진 조각. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), scolb (scallop, shiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iverslay madeixa de fibra de vidro (staple sliver), lascar (break, chip, cleave, scale, slash, spall, splinter, split), lasca de madeira, fita de preparação (tops), fita de fiação, fita (band, bind, clamp, cordon, fillet, lace, ribbon, snood, string, strip, tie-up), fibra solta, fibra de vidro solta (staple sliver), estilha (chips, splinter), escama (squama). (various references) surcea (splint), aşchie (chip, Spall, splint, splinter), ţeapã (bristle, goad, pale, quill, spine, splinter, thorn), ţandãrã (shiver, splint, splinter). (various references) щепка (chip, splinter, woodchip). (various references) otkinuti grančicu, ocepak. (various references) astilla (chip, shiver, spline, splinter). (various references) spjälka (to digest), flisa (chip, crock, flake, shiver, splinter). (various references) yün eğirme, uzun ince parça, kıymak (chop up, hack, mince, sacrifice, solemnize), kıymık yapmak, kıymık (cutting, shiver, Spall, splinter), incecik ayrılmak, ince kesmek. (various references) різана рана, тріска (chip, cod, codfish, haddock, splinter). (various references) miếng (cantle, crumb, morsel, piece), gai (spicule, textile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | toslifan. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sliver": slivered, sliverer, sliverers, slivering, slivers. (additional references) | |
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"Sliver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blipvert, cliver, fliver, salaver, Scivyer, Seliger, selive, silber, silfr, silfver, sivar, sivre, slaveer, sliere, sliev, slife, sliker, sliv, sliva, Slive, slivier, slivre, smive, sniver, zilver. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sliver" (pronounced sli"ver) |
| 4 | -l i" v er | deliver, liver. |
| 3 | -i" v er | downriver, giver, quiver, river, shiver, upriver. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ervils, livers, livres, silver. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: ervil, evils, liers, liver, lives, livre, riels, riles, rives, siver, slier, veils, viers, viler, vires, virls. | |
-2 letters: evil, ires, isle, leis, lier, lies, lire, live, reis, revs, riel, rile, rise, rive, sire, veil, vier, vies, vile, virl, vise. | |
-3 letters: els, ers, ire, lei, lev, lie, lis, rei, res, rev, sei, sel, ser, sir. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: clivers, drivels, leviers, liviers, livyers, relives, reviles, revisal, servile, shrivel, silvern, silvers, silvery, slivers, surveil, veilers. | |
+2 letters: cavilers, chervils, claviers, delivers, desilver, flivvers, lavisher, liveners, liveries, liverish, overlies, overslip, prelives, prevails, ravelins, reavails, relieves, relievos, resilver, revilers, revisals, revivals, rilievos, rivulets, rivulose, shelvier, shrieval, shrivels, silvered, silverer, silverly, slipover, slivered, sliverer, sniveler, surveils, valorise, varioles, veligers, verbiles, vermeils, versicle, virelais, virelays, virgules, visceral, voleries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 69 76 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. .. ...- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l i v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0069 0076 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537875887184 |
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