different between sliver vs platinum

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

English

Etymology

Spanish platina (“little silver”) +? -um, because the metal, platinum, was found as an apparent impurity with silver.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?t'?n?m, IPA^(key): /?plæt.?n.?m/; enPR: pl?t'n?m, IPA^(key): /?plæt.n?m/

Noun

platinum (countable and uncountable, plural platinums)

1. The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
2. A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.

3. (music) A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.

Synonyms

• platina (obsolete)
• white gold (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• platina

Translations

Adjective

platinum (not comparable)

1. Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
2. Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums).

Derived terms

• go platinum
• platinum blond

Translations

Verb

platinum (third-person singular simple present platinums, present participle platinuming, simple past and past participle platinumed)

1. (computer games) to reach platinum level in a game

   I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.

Translations

See also

• cooperite
• sperrylite
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Platinum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “platinum”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Afrikaans

Adjective

platinum (attributive platinum, not comparable)

1. platinum; made from platinum

Noun

platinum (uncountable)

1. platinum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pla?ti?.num/, [p??ä?t?i?n???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pla?ti.num/, [pl??t?i?num]

Noun

plat?num n (genitive plat?n?); second declension

1. platinum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pla??ti?n??m]

Noun

platinum m

1. (uncountable) platinum
2. A part of platinum

Inflection

Malay

Alternative forms

• pelatinam

Etymology

From English platinum, from Spanish platina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [platinom], [platin?m], [pl?tin?m]
• Rhymes: -inom, -nom, -om

Noun

platinum

1. platinum