I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shard/splinter of glass (= a sharp piece of broken glass )
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People were injured by shards of glass following the explosion.
a splinter group (= that has separated from another political or religious group )
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A Social Democratic Party ( SDP), formed as a splinter group of the Socialist Party of Serbia.
splinter group
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
group
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He was a leader of the 1892 splinter group in the Berlin Society.
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A week before the election a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front had taken several nuns captive.
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He added that splinter groups should not be pulling the carpet out from under the coalition.
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Every splinter group of liberalism was to centre round a café table.
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He'd quarrelled with them, and formed a splinter group of one.
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In Berlin a splinter group formed within the Society, but it did not secede until 1898.
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According to evidence given in the trial, the Commandos of Sacrifice were a Nahda splinter group .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She sucked so hard that she drew the splinter of wood out of her finger.
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The doctor removed the small steel splinters that had lodged themselves in my leg in the explosion.
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The window smashed and splinters of glass flew everywhere.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Edward pulls out the splinter and hugs her to his chest to quench the flame.
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He'd given up woodwork, having driven a splinter through his thumbnail.
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They concluded that she would be exposed to great danger from a splinter of flax.
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With the death of Stravinsky, it was a mass of splinters.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ice storms splintered whole forests of trees in British Columbia.
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In the late 1980s the Communist party splintered into two factions.
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The coating helps prevent the glass from splintering if it is hit by a rock while you are driving.
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These types of wood splinter more easily than redwood or cedar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Countries splinter , regional trading blocs grow, the global economy becomes ever more interconnected.
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Even the March sun looks changed as it splinters off the chrome on the fold-away camp bed.
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In the area there are only limestone rocks which splinter easily and so are unsuitable for an inscription.
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Outside the places where wealth resided the world had also splintered into tribes and camps of the most primitive and bizarre form.
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So the civil rights movement began to splinter , and young blacks in particular followed more militant leaders.
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The massive ranges of the Andes have splintered the country into hundreds of valleys and basins.