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Definition of Splinter

1. Verb. Withdraw from an organization or communion. "The girls splinter the wooden sticks"; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

2. Noun. A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal. "It broke into slivers"

3. Verb. Divide into slivers or splinters. "The wooden sticks splinter "

4. Verb. Break up into splinters or slivers. ; "The wood splintered"

Definition of Splinter

1. v. t. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.

2. v. i. To become split into long pieces.

3. n. A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

Definition of Splinter

1. Noun. A long, sharp fragment of material; often wood. ¹

2. Noun. A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments. ¹

5. Verb. (figuratively of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Splinter

1. to split into sharp, slender pieces [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Splinter

1. 1. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. "After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . Abandoned the field to the enemy." (Prescott) 2. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. Origin: Cf. LG. Splittern, splinteren. See Splint, Split. A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot. Splinter bar. A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs. The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree. See: Splinter, or Splint. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Splinter

splicing endonuclease splicings splicosome splif spliff spliffs splifs spline splined splines

splining splint splint bone splinted splinted abutment splinter (current term) splinter bar splinter bars splinter group splinter groups

splinter haemorrhages splinter parties splinter party splinter up splintered splintered fracture splintering splinterings splinterless splinterlike

Literary usage of Splinter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"The primitive type of a blade or implement for digging would be a splinter of flint or piece of cleft wood, as shown in G. ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"There is no doubt that the foregoing forms signifying a splinter or ... The radical meaning of spatula, as shown under Spade, is a splinter or piece of ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"Hence may be explained the relation of Bret. sldn, dispersion, as well as of G. sel,iene (mentioned under Shin), a shiver, splinter, to E. shine. ..."

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