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