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splinter

[ splin-ter ]

noun

  1. a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.

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verb (used with object)

  1. to split or break into splinters.
  2. to break off (something) in splinters.
  3. to split or break (a larger group) into separate factions or independent groups.
  4. Obsolete. to secure or support by a splint or splints, as a broken limb.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be split or broken into splinters.
  2. to break off in splinters.

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splinter

/ ˈ²õ±è±ôɪ²Ô³ÙÉ™ /

noun

  1. a very small sharp piece of wood, glass, metal, etc, characteristically long and thin, broken off from a whole
  2. a metal fragment, from the container of a shell, bomb, etc, thrown out during an explosion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to reduce or be reduced to sharp fragments; shatter
  2. to break or be broken off in small sharp fragments
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of splinter1

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; splint
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of splinter1

C14: from Middle Dutch splinter; see splint
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"Fortunately, it was a small injury from plastic splinters from the right window."

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A splinter group, the Northeast cartel, was among those designated as a terrorist organization last month by the Trump administration.

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One of the major funders of the move is the Immaculate Heart Community, the independent group formed when the nuns in Kent’s order splintered from the Catholic Church.

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Not better than “Anora,†but the vote for unorthodox indie movies figures to be splintered.

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As the film moves from Guatemala to Mexico and then to the United States, Nava slowly splinters the magical realism Rosa and Enrique had grown up with.

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