英语词汇“sliver”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	sliver
释义	sliv·er I. \ˈslivə(r), in sense 2 usually ˈslīv-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English slivere, from sliven to slive + -ere -er 1. a. : a long slender piece cut or torn off : splinter < a piece of apple pie with a sliver of cheese on top — F.C.Othman > < was building up the fire with split logs and pine slivers — William Faulkner > b. : something that is small and narrow : fragment < the initial quarrel over the slivers of land was intense — Foreign Policy Bulletin > < a sliver of an apartment in an old-fashioned small hotel — Mollie Panter-Downes > c. : a piece of bait sliced from a small fish 2. a. (1) : a loose soft untwisted strand or rope of textile fiber produced by a carding or combing machine and ready for drawing or roving (2) : a similar strand of wool fiber delivered by a carding machine and ready to be spun into yarn b. : an untwisted strand of glass fibers produced from molten glass II. \ˈslivə(r), ˈslīv-\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* 1. obsolete : to cut off in the form of a sliver < slips of yew, slivered in the moon's eclipse — Shakespeare > 2. : to cut into slivers : reduce to slivers : slice, splinter < chopped the broccoli and slivered the salad — Grace Reiten > 3. : to cut slivers from (a fish) < helped … to sliver porgies for the trawls — Sarah O. Jewett > *intransitive verb* : to become split into slivers < the war decided that the United States should not sliver into two, three, or four fragments — Allan Nevins >
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