different between sliver vs slicer

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

From slice +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?s?(r)

Noun

slicer (plural slicers)

1. Someone or something that slices.
2. A broad, flat knife.
3. A slicing cucumber.
   • 2008, Jeff Cox, The Organic Food Shopper's Guide (page 67)

     These are American slicers. But there are many types of cucumbers out there other than American slicers.

4. A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
5. (computing) A kind of data filter used in data visualization.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• relics

French

Etymology

From English slice

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slaj.se/

Verb

slicer

1. (sports) To slice the ball

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.