splinter

IPA: spɫˈɪntɝ

noun

  • 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.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
  • (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
  • (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
  • (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
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Examples of "splinter" in Sentences

  • A waggon locked wheels for a moment and ripped a long splinter from the chaise.
  • Now I must go to Google to determine the answer to this early-morning brain splinter ….
  • And he took the splinter from the brontosaurus’ paw and the brontosaurus became his friend.
  • -- what with elections coming up, and a certain splinter group that wants to take back America and such.
  • But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus’s paw and the big lizard became his friend.
  • But Jesus was unafraid, and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus’ paw, and the big lizard became his friend.
  • The complications were that old spear wound, which inflamed, and they found that a splinter from the jagged tip had been left in.
  • Getting back to the Body theme of the month, Sunday morning I spent some time trying to extract a splinter from the Little Bird’s little foot.
  • Onward and upward he led until all at once we reached a narrow platform, railed round and hung about with plaited rope screens which he called splinter-mats, over which I had a view of land and water, of ships and basins, of miles of causeways and piers, none of which had been in existence before the war.

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