different between sliver vs siver
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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siver
English
Verb
siver (third-person singular simple present sivers, present participle sivering, simple past and past participle sivered)
- (obsolete) To simmer.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Revis, Rives, rives, sevir, viers, vires
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