sliver

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
2. (Canada, Essex, Kent) A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
3. 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.
4. Bait made of pieces of small fish.
5. (New-York, US) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
6. A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.

Verb

To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

Concepts

éclat

écharde

tranche

édifice

esquille

bâtiment

gratte-ciel

immeuble

languette

maison

🏠

tesson

tour

fragment

débris

domicile

Synonymes

splinter

fragment

chip

shard

slice

shatter

slit

smash

scrap

shred

paring

shaving

dwelling

edifice

fabric

fillet

fin

fist

✊

flinders

fritter

home

🏠

house

🏠

hut

🛖

hutch

lath

louver

louvre

pale

parcel out

picket

place

rend

rive

screed

shack

shanty

sherd

shiver

skive

slash

slat

slip

slot

splint

splintery

split

split off

squat

stave

strip

Traductions

Splitter

scheggia

lasca

splinter

scheggiare

astilla

farpa

kıymık

rancajo

frammento

estellar

estella

scherf

abspalten

asclar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈslɪv.ə(ɹ)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sliver

In summary

From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).