Splinter

Definition: Splinter

Splinter

Noun

1. A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders".

Verb

1. Withdraw from an organization or communion.

2. Divide into slivers or splinters.

3. Break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "splinter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Splinter

Brittleness

Break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Filament

Strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.

Greatness

Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely.

Crosswords: Splinter

Dutch (splinter).

You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

He came home one day with a splinter in his finger - just a little bitty old splinter. (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; writing credit: Jerry Adelman; Daniel Gregory Browne)

One of these guys must know where they're holding Splinter, so don't knock them all out! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Oh, sorry Master Splinter. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Marty Eisenberg)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Splinter in the Heart (reference)

• Schredder Gets Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Coloring Book) (reference)

• Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II (reference)

• Splinter of the Mind's Eye: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (reference)

• Splinter Shards/Birth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Splinter Cell (reference)

• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Splinter hemorrhages under fingernails in trichinosis. Credit: CDC.

Photographed circa 3 February 1941, while taking part in fleet landing exercises in the Caribbean. Note degaussing cable running around the ship's upper hull, LCP type landing craft on midships davits, and 3"/50 guns installed without any splinter protection. Credit: NAVY.

Crew of 5"/25 gun # 3 (2nd gun from forward, starboard side) in action during gunnery practice, circa spring 1942. Note anti-flash head-dress and communications gear worn by the man operating the fuze setter; bearing markings on the gun's splinter shield; and old-style battle helmets. Credit: NAVY.

View on board, looking aft on the port side from alongside eight-inch gun turret # 1, while the ship was at the New York Navy Yard on 29 May 1942. Numbers in white circles mark recently installed items, including (# 1) splinter protection on the pilothouse; (# 2) 20mm guns just forward of the pilothouse (largely hidden behind the second 8" gun turret); and (# 3) 1.1" gun mountings on the upper bridge wings. Other notable items include paravanes on the superstructure side just forward of the second 8" gun turret and the rangefinder "tub" atop the pilothouse. Many of these features were still present when the ship's wreck was examined in August 1992. Credit: NAVY.

At Boston, Massachusetts, 18 January 1919. Panoramic photograph, taken by Crosby. Note mattress splinter shielding hung around her bridge. Credit: NAVY.

View looking aft from her foremast crow's nest, while she was escorting a World War I Atlantic convoy, 1918. Note: "dazzle" camouflage, davits, motor whaleboat, motor launch and gig, triple torpedo tubes, mattress splinter protection around her after conning station, and life rafts. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He picked a splinter of wood from the ground and scraped the cake of grease from the bearing and the bearing bolts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

In December Wegahta, which was highly critical of the ruling party and was alleged to be sympathetic to a splinter group of the TPLF, closed. (references)

Sierra Leone

In previous years, an ex-SLA splinter group called the West Side Boys also manned roadblocks; however, in late 2000, the group disbanded, and there were no reported incidents during the year. (references)

Latvia

The Ministry has registered over 1,000 congregations; however, because of this provision, the Government cannot register any splinter groups, including an independent Jewish congregation, the Latvian Free Orthodox Church, and a separate Old Believers group. (references)

Economic History

Japan

After the Liberal Party left the coalition in April 2000, Prime Minister Mori welcomed a Liberal Party splinter group, the New Conservative Party, into the ruling coalition. (references)

Ireland

Splinter groups opposed to the peace process have committed terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland and in mainland Britain on several occasions since the Belfast Agreement was signed. (references)

Bermuda

A third party, the Bermuda Democratic Party (BDP), was formed in the summer of 1967 with a splinter group from the PLP as a nucleus; it disbanded in 1970. It was later replaced by the National Liberal Party (NLP). (references)

Human Rights

Thailand

Some of the Karen fighters were associated with a small splinter group, commonly referred to as God's Army. (references)

Sierra Leone

There were no developments in the following disappearances in 2000: The August kidnaping of 15 persons by the RUF during an attack on the village of Folloh; the July abduction by an ex-SLA splinter group called the West Side Boys of 18 persons during an attack on a bus; the July disappearance, following an attack by the West Side Boys, of 1 foreign worker; the February abduction by the RUF of 11 passengers from a bus near Masiaka. (references)

Political Economy

Cote D'ivoire

The RDR formed as a splinter group of the PDCI's reformist wing. (references)

Political Rights

Bahamas

The FNM won general elections in 1992 and 1997. It holds 35 of 40 seats in the House of Assembly, and the PLP holds 4. The Coalition for Democratic Reform (a splinter party from the PLP) holds one seat. (references)

Angola

UNITA governors, vice governors, and local administrators were nominated, but remaining positions were filled by members of a splinter UNITA group, UNITA-Renovada, which is recognized and assisted by the Government. (references)

Worker Rights

Moldova

Dissatisfaction within GFTU has resulted in several splits within the organization; however, the resulting splinter groups have been unsuccessful in forming new independent unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "splinter": get a splinter ♦ glass splinter ♦ shell splinter ♦ splinter bar ♦ splinter currency ♦ splinter group ♦ splinter off ♦ splinter party ♦ wood splinter. Additional references.

Beginning with "splinter": splinter-bar, splinter-bone, splinter-group, splinter-groups, splinter-proof, splinter-thin.

Ending with "splinter": anti-splinter.

Albanian

spicë (radius, shaft, spoke), qejzë, cifël (chip, shiver, splint), ashkël (chip, kindling wood, matchwood, shaving, shavings, sliver, tinder), çahem në ashkla. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسر الى شظايا, ‏منشق عن جماعة, ‏منشق (dissenting, dissident, nonconformist, seceding, separatist), ‏تكسر (break, crack, fragmentation, fritter, shatter), ‏تشقق (chap, cleave, crackle, rend, rift, seam), ‏إنقسم (be divided, be shared, divide, section, split), ‏إنشق (break up, cleave, crack, fissure, gap, rip, rive, split), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, split, spring, tear, twist), ‏شظية (fragment, ricochet, scrap, shiver, sliver, spall, splint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

цепя (cleave, hew down, knife, skive, slash, slit, sliver, split), цепеница (log), шрапнел (shrapnel), отломка (fragment, piece), натрошавам се, натрошавам (break to pieces, mill), подпалка, парче (bar, bit, cake, catch, cob, cut, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint). (various references)

Chinese 

裂片 (sliver, splinters), 碎片 (chip, fragment, tatter). (various references)

Czech

střepina (chip, fragment), tříska (chip, Flinders, shiver, sliver, spill), roztříštit (fritter, shatter, shiver, smash, split), rozštípat (hack up), úlomek (chip, fragment, snatch), štìpina. (various references)

Danish

splint (alburnum, sapwood, scab, shell, sliver, spill), spån (chip, cuttings, millings, planings, sliver, swarf, turnings), skaar (chip, drift, notch, swath, windrow, winrow). (various references)

Dutch

splinter (chips, schiller, schillerization, sliver). (various references)

Esperanto

splito, spliti (split), lignero. (various references)

Faeroese

splitta, kloyvipinnur, flís (layer). (various references)

Farsi 

متلاشی شدن وکردن , تراشه کردن (Sliver, Splint), تراشه (Chip, Excelsior, Ribbon, Slither, Sliver, Splint), خرده شیشه , باریکه چوب . (various references)

Finnish

siru (chip, fragment). (various references)

French

éclat (sparkle, splendour), écharde. (various references)

German

Splitter (chip, Chipping, chippings, flake, fragment, shiver, sliver, slivers, splint), splittern (chip, shatter, sliver, splinters, split). (various references)

Greek 

πελεκούδι (chip, splint), σκλήθρα (alder wood, slither, sliver), σχίζα (sliver, splint), αγκίδα. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפצל לקיסמים, ל� פץ (dash, detonate, explode, pound, shatter, shipwreck, smash), שבב (chip, flake, sliver), שבר (break, breakage, breaking, collapse, crisis, failure, fracture, mishap, rupture), קיסם (chip, mote, sliver), פציץ (fragment, shrapnel), בקעת (chip), רסיס (chip, drop, flake, fragment, sliver). (various references)

Hungarian

szilánk (chip, flaw, flinders, fragment, shard, shatter, sherd, shiver, sliver, spall, splint, splintering), repesz (chip, flaw, flinders, fragment, splintering). (various references)

Indonesian

gempilan (chip, sliver), belahan (cleavage, fission, fissure, split). (various references)

Italian

frammento (chip, fractionary, fragment, fritter, rag, scrap, shred, sliver, snippet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �片 (broken piece, fragment), 木片 (block, chip), 木端 (chip), � 片 (broken pieces, fragment), � けら (broken pieces, fragment), � け (fragment), 棘 (biting words, briars, spine, the bush, thicket, thorn), 削片 (chip), 刺 (biting words, calling card, spine, thorn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さくへ�" (chip), かけら (broken pieces, fragment), かけ (a gamble, betting, credit, fragment, gambling), いら (biting words, spine, thorn), �"っぱ (chip, wood chip, worthless thing or person), もくへ�" (block, chip), はへ�" (broken piece, fragment), と�' (biting words, spine, thorn). (various references)

Manx

skirrag, skeiltey (rend, splintering, split, splitting). (various references)

Pig Latin

intersplay

Portuguese

lasca (chip, spall, splint), lascar (break, chip, cleave, scale, slash, spall, split), fragmento (cantle, catch, crumb, end, fraction, fragmemt, fritter, lump, part, patch, piece, scrap, shatter, shiver, snatch, snippet, tear). (various references)

Romanian

despica (bifurcate, check, cleave, rend, rift, rip, Rive, slit, split). (various references)

Russian 

расщепить (split), щепка (chip, sliver, woodchip), осколок (fragment, splint), обломок (chip, debris, detritus, fragment, mammock, shatter, stub, stump), заноза. (various references)

Scottish

spealg (a splinter, fall into splinters, fragment), sgolb (a splinter, prickle, wooden pin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razbijati se u parčad, rascepiti (cleave, slit, split), parče granate, iverica (plywood), cepanica (log). (various references)

Spanish

astilla (chip, shiver, sliver, spline). (various references)

Swedish

splittra (cleave, disunite, divide, fragment, fritter, Rive, shatter, shiver), sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prickle, prod, scoot, scram, spill, split, stab, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh), spillra (carcase, carcass), skärva (bit, chip, fragment, mote, shard, sharp, sherd, sliver), flisa (chip, crock, flake, shiver, sliver). (various references)

Turkish

yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, split, tear, wedge off), parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crash, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, Spall, split, split off), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), kıymık (cutting, shiver, sliver, Spall), dağılmak (adjourn, be scattered, clear, clear away, come apart, crack up, decay, decompose, diffuse, disband, disintegrate, disperse, disrupt, dissolve, fall, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, scatter, separate, spread, straggle). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyязak (shard), gyldyrgan. (various references)

Ukrainian

скабка, розщеплюватися (rift), розщеплювати (rend, rift, slit), тріска (chip, cod, codfish, haddock, sliver), осколок (chip, odd-come-short, shiver, spill), порбиватися, планка (batten, cleat, lath, ledge, splint, stave, strip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đá (bond, rift). (various references)

Welsh

ysgwr (shiver, stave), fflaw (mote), dellten (lath, lattice). (various references)

assula. (various references)

faluppa. (various references)

esclat, esclis. (various references)

splinter, splenter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "splinter": splintered, splintering, splinters, splintery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Splinter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Selinker, Selinute, spinkter, spinter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: linters, pilsner, pintles, plenist, pterins, resplit, triples.

-2 letters: elints, enlist, esprit, estrin, inerts, inlets, insert, instep, inters, liners, linter, lisper, listen, lister, liters, litres, niters, nitres, pensil, perils, pintle, pliers, priest, prints, pterin, relist, repins, ripens, ripest, silent, sinter, sniper, spinel, spinet, splent, spline, splint, sprent, sprint, sprite, stipel, stripe, tilers, tinsel.

+1 letter: interlaps, printless, splinters, splintery, terpinols, traplines, triplanes.

+2 letters: blueprints, implanters, interlopes, interplays, paltriness, plastering, portliness, princelets, pristinely, reimplants, repletions, reptilians, spinsterly, splintered, terpineols.

+3 letters: antileprosy, interlopers, interplants, interpleads, neutrophils, parliaments, paternalism, paternalist, percentiles, personalist, personality, plaistering, planarities, planimeters, plasterings, pleinairist, portionless, pratincoles, prelections, presciently, princeliest, proselyting, resculpting, resplitting, sempiternal, shinplaster, silverpoint, splattering, splintering, spluttering, terrepleins, trampolines, transalpine.