SPLINTER


Meaning of SPLINTER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ splɪntə(r) ]

( splinters, splintering, splintered)

1.

A splinter is a very thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or other hard substance, which has broken off from a larger piece.

...splinters of glass.

...a splinter in the finger.

N-COUNT

2.

If something splinters or is splintered , it breaks into thin, sharp pieces.

The ruler cracked and splintered into pieces...

The stone rocketed into the glass, splintering it.

VERB : V prep / adv , V n

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