Dictionary Entry
sliver
sliver is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
- 2noun
A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
- 5noun
a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- 6noun
a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
"he got a splinter in his finger"
"it broke into slivers"
Synonyms
- 7verb
form into slivers
"sliver wood"
- 8verb
break up into splinters or slivers
"The wood splintered"
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- 9verb
divide into slivers or splinters
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