different between shred vs sliver
shred
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /???d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English shrede, shred, from Old English s?r?ad, s?r?ade, from Proto-Germanic *skraud? (“a cut, shred”). Doublet of escrow.
Noun
shred (plural shreds)
- A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
- In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:modicum.
Related terms
- screed
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English shreden, from Old English s?r?adian, from Proto-West Germanic *skraud?n, related to Proto-West Germanic *skraudan (“to cut up, shred”).
Verb
shred (third-person singular simple present shreds, present participle shredding, simple past shredded, past participle shredded or shred)
- To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- To reduce by a large percentage.
- (obsolete, transitive) To lop; to prune; to trim.
- (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
- (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
- (music, slang) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).
Derived terms
- shredder
Translations
References
Further reading
- shred in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- shred in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- herds, sherd
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sliver
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)
- 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).
- (regional US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
- 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.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
- (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)
- (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
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