Sliver vs X - What's the difference?
sliver | x |
A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
* 2013 , . 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).
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.
Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
(US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
* Sir Walter Scott
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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As a noun sliver
is a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.As a verb sliver
is to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.sliver
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinterVerb
(en verb)- to sliver wood
- (Shakespeare)
- They'll sliver thee like a turnip.