Shrapnel vs Splinter - What's the difference?
shrapnel | splinter |
(historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell or landmine.
(slang) Loose change.
debris caused by action of persons or animals.
A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
To come apart into long sharp fragments.
To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
* Prescott
(figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
As nouns the difference between shrapnel and splinter
is that shrapnel is (historical) an anti-personnel artillery shell used in wwi which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually while splinter is a long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.As a verb splinter is
to come apart into long sharp fragments.shrapnel
English
(wikipedia shrapnel)Noun
(-)- The dog did not eat my sandwich. It was in a bag. If he had eaten my sandwich, there'd be shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.
splinter
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (long sharp fragment) shard, spelk. * (group formed by splitting) faction, splinter group.Verb
(en verb)- The tall tree splintered during the storm.
- His third kick splintered the door.
- After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and abandoned the field to the enemy.
- The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
- The unpopular new policies splintered the company.
- (Bishop Wren)