splinter
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.
Noun
splinter (plural splinters)
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
- A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
fragment of material
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group
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Etymology 2
From the noun splinter.
Verb
splinter (third-person singular simple present splinters, present participle splintering, simple past and past participle splintered)
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
- The tall tree splintered during the storm.
- 2012, Marcus Samuelsson, “One: My African Mother”, in Yes, Chef, Random House, →ISBN, page 6:
- It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- His third kick splintered the door.
- 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
- After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy.
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
- The unpopular new policies splintered the company.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- 1659, Matthew Wren, Monarchy Asserted Or The State of Monarchicall & Popular Government:
- it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.
Related terms
Translations
to come apart into splinters
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to cause to break apart into splinters
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to break or cause to break into factions
to fasten or confine with splints
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Etymology
From Middle Dutch splinter.
Pronunciation
Noun
splinter m (plural splinters, diminutive splintertje n)
- splinter (long, sharp fragment of material)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Negerhollands: splinter
- → Papiamentu: spleenter (dated)
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