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sliver
UK /ˈslɪv.ə(ɹ)/ US /ˈslɪv.ɚ/
noun 5verb 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
insignificant, solid, tiny
VERB + SLIVER
find, like, squeezes, take
SLIVER + NOUN
cheese, information, knowledge, thee, wood
PREP.
between, from, in, on, than
ADV.
only
Definitions
noun
1
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
This is the tasting ritual, the lay Eucharist of cheese. The buyer squeezes the sliver of cheese between his fingers to test its consistency, sniffs it, and then tastes it as delicately as if it were the most subtle caviar.
A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
2
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
A narrow high-rise apartment building.
verb
1
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
to sliver wood
slips of yew, Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse
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This is the tasting ritual, the lay Eucharist of cheese. The buyer squeezes the sliver of cheese between his fingers to test its consistency, sniffs it, and then tastes it as delicately as if it were
Wiktionary02
A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
Wiktionary03
to sliver wood
Wiktionary04
slips of yew, Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse
Wiktionary05
They'll sliver thee like a turnip.
Wiktionary06
Our evidence is no more than a tiny sliver of solid knowledge amidst the vast bog of doubts and speculations.
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