单词	splintery
释义	splintersplin‧ter1 /ˈsplɪntə $ -ər/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINsplinter1 Origin: 1300-1400 Middle Dutch Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES She sucked so hard that she drew the splinter of wood out of her finger. The doctor removed the small steel splinters that had lodged themselves in my leg in the explosion. The window smashed and splinters of glass flew everywhere. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Edward pulls out the splinter and hugs her to his chest to quench the flame. He'd given up woodwork, having driven a splinter through his thumbnail. They concluded that she would be exposed to great danger from a splinter of flax. With the death of Stravinsky, it was a mass of splinters. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatora small piece of something bigger► fragment a small piece of something bigger, such as cloth, dishes, or building materials. that has been broken or torn: · The bullet had pierced the bone, leaving behind fragments which the surgeon was unable to remove.fragment of: · He was piecing together torn fragments of a letter.· The excavation of a Roman town house revealed fragments of a mosaic floor. ► scrap a very small piece of something such as paper, cloth, or food that is no longer useful or needed: · The birds would eat any leftover food scraps.scrap of: · He scribbled a note on an old scrap of paper.· This quilt was lovingly made from scraps of material. ► splinter an extremely small, thin, and sharp piece of something such as wood, glass, or metal that was formed when the wood, glass, or metal was broken: · The doctor removed the small steel splinters that had lodged themselves in my leg in the explosion.splinter of: · The window smashed and splinters of glass flew everywhere.· She sucked so hard that she drew the splinter of wood out of her finger. ► chip a small, irregularly-shaped piece of something such as wood or stone that remains after someone has been cutting or working with the wood or stone: · Wood chips covered the floor in the carpenter's workshop.chip of: · After the decorators had left there were chips of plaster all over the lobby. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a shard/splinter of glass (=a sharp piece of broken glass)· People were injured by shards of glass following the explosion. ► a splinter group (=that has separated from another political or religious group)· A Social Democratic Party ( SDP), formed as a splinter group of the Socialist Party of Serbia. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► group · He was a leader of the 1892 splinter group in the Berlin Society.· A week before the election a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front had taken several nuns captive.· He added that splinter groups should not be pulling the carpet out from under the coalition.· Every splinter group of liberalism was to centre round a café table.· He'd quarrelled with them, and formed a splinter group of one.· In Berlin a splinter group formed within the Society, but it did not secede until 1898.· According to evidence given in the trial, the Commandos of Sacrifice were a Nahda splinter group. a small sharp piece of wood, glass, or metal, that has broken off a larger piece:  I’ve got a splinter in my finger.splinter of splinters of glass—splintery adjective
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