different between ingredient vs sliver

English

Etymology

From Middle French ingredient, from Latin ingrediens, present participle of ingredior (“I go or enter into or onto”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???i?di.?nt/
• Hyphenation: in?gre?di?ent

Noun

ingredient (plural ingredients)

1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

   • By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.

   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

Holonyms

• mixture

Related terms

• ingress

Translations

Further reading

• ingredient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ingredient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ingredient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ingredi?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /i?.???.di?ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /i?.???.di?en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i?.??e.di?ent/

Noun

ingredient m (plural ingredients)

1. ingredient

Further reading

• “ingredient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ingredient” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ingredient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ingredient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Noun

ingredient m (plural ingrediens)

1. ingredient

Romanian

Etymology

From French ingrédient

Noun

ingredient n (plural ingrediente)

1. ingredient

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English sl?fan (as in t?sl?fan (“to split, split up”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sl?v.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sl?.v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Noun

sliver (plural slivers)

1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.

     A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).

   1. (regional US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
2. 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.
3. (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
4. (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

Synonyms

• (long piece cut or rent off): shard, slice, splinter

Translations

See also

• slither

Verb

sliver (third-person singular simple present slivers, present participle slivering, simple past and past participle slivered)

1. (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

Anagrams

• Elvirs, Silver, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, silver, svirel