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Meaning splinter meaning

What does splinter mean?
Definitions in simple English

splinter Noun

— A splinter is a long, small, sharp piece of something, usually wood.

splinter

— noun (= sliver) a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal he got a splinter in his finger it broke into slivers — verb (= sliver) break up into splinters or slivers The wood splintered — verb (= sliver) divide into slivers or splinters — verb (= break away) withdraw from an organization or communion After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away

Synonyms splinter synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as splinter?

splinter English » English

sliver chip fragment split thorn break shatter crack shard splint shred shiver sherd scrap rend piece part faction cleave wood chip tear spine smash slit slice slash secede rive lath fishbone chop chips break up break away board block bit wood chips wedging valve uproot timber tablet strip straw strand stick stab splitting up splitting

Topics splinter topics

What do people use splinter to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Wood
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece

Conjugation splinter conjugation

How do you conjugate splinter?

splinter · verb

Examples splinter examples

How do I use splinter in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I can't get this splinter out of my finger.
Tom had a splinter in his finger, so he asked Mary to help him get it out.
The back of Tom's right hand was injured by a splinter of glass.
Tom removed the splinter from Mary's finger.
I've got a splinter stuck in my finger.
I ran a splinter into my finger.
I have a splinter in the palm of my hand.
A splinter of wood, barely visible to the naked eye, caused a very painful infection in one of Tom's fingers.
One of the most painful places to get a splinter is under the fingernail.
Tom has a splinter in his finger.

Movie subtitles

I don't want to see a splinter left afloat.
Must be a shell splinter.
A little higher and it would be a bone splinter.
This tiny splinter of bone pressing on the brain.
It must have been a splinter of glass.
You've got a blue glint too, like a splinter of chalcedony, a dimple in your chin, and your hair looks like you got it cut in a juvenile detention center.
I think I stepped on a splinter.
Splinter.
My finger. There's a splinter.
I took the splinter from your hand.
This damn splinter.
Now, a short scene from a play by Harold Splinter.
A tear-drenched pom-pom impaled upon a splinter of glass?
Tell him a splinter passed through his sterno cleidomastoid, and settled in his sphenoid, opposite his fallopian tube.
Just a splinter.
A splinter of glass, just a few drops of blood.
Well, actually, if you would say that a man with an ulcer, a nail in his shoe and a splinter in his finger was then struck by lightning.
Yes, a dirty, great splinter.
He's more like a splinter, which is getting under my skin.
Willy, be sure to splinter the leg in the cot to match this.
That's a bone splinter from off her ribcage.
While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I do not believe he has the knowledge to restore a brain.
There is always the risk of a splinter in one eye.
Perhaps a tear-drenched pom-pom impaled upon a splinter of glass.
And a splinter of doubt was already nagging at her heart - is there God really?
This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter and my fortunes against any lay worth naming this crack in your love shall grow stronger than it was before.
One splinter removed.
I got a splinter in my foot.
Grandma will get it out. This splinter is really deep.
If you don't take a splinter out, it goes further inside and comes out of your ear.
I don't have a splinter.
The explosion that caused Scarlioni to splinter in time also caused the birth of the human race and that's what's about to happen, the birth of life itself.
But I will splinter in time again, and all of my people will be killed.
Well, for example look at this terribly nasty comet of 1857 that some people figured would splinter the Earth.

News and current affairs

Among the splinter groups that arose were the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) and the nationalist LPR.
By the end of the twentieth century, only the FARC endured, together with a smattering of splinter groups in Mexico.
Ten years ago, as the Asian financial crisis savaged Indonesia's economy, many experts predicted that the country would become unstable, if not splinter.
State-reared terror groups and their splinter cells, some now operating autonomously, have morphed into a hydra.

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