sliver

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈslɪvə/    美 /ˈslɪvə/|/ˈslɪvɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.; Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin. Canada,Essex,Kent
  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. New-York,US
  6. A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
动词 v.
  1. To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit. transitive
    — to sliver wood

词形变化

slivers plural slivers present,singular,third-person slivering participle,present slivered participle,past slivered past

词汇关系

衍生词
slivercasting sliverlike sliver moon sliverous slivery
相关词
chum slither

词源

词源 1
From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
词源 2
From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
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