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
- The man was hurt by a splinter.
- Where did you find the splinter
- I found some glass splinters here.
- He removed splinter from his thumb.
- The doctor removed splinter as fast as he could.
- The splinter was carefully removed from her body.
- Splinter armor thick covered the upper portion of the citadel.
- A glass splinter cut his thumb when the windshield was smashed.
- A player was killed by a splinter while playing an indoor match in Brazil.
- After centuries of dominance, the Roman Empire irrevocably splintered in 476.
- 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.