Definition for Sliver:

• A thin strip, as of wood; slip; splinter.

Synonyms for Sliver:

• n.

  •
  • a little,
  • taster,
  • sample,
  • piece,
  • trace,
  • a bit,
  • fraction,
  • hint.
  •
  • grain,
  • tingle,
  • element,
  • a touch of something,
  • dash,
  • drop.
  •a small quantity (noun)
  • Bitting.
  •flake (noun)
  • sheet,
  • scab,
  • Lamellae,
  • lamella,
  • scabs,
  • pellicle,
  • Lamellas.
  •flinders (noun)
  • flinders.
  •part (noun)
  • de tails,
  • de-tails,
  • anies,
  • de tail,
  • sub-divisions,
  • sub-division,
  • sub divisions,
  • sub division,
  • de-tail.
  •piece of paper (noun)
  • slip.
  •scrap (noun)
  • bits piece,
  • re-main,
  • dis-card,
  • odds ends,
  • dis-cards,
  • dis cards,
  • dis card,
  • re mains,
  • bits and piece,
  • bits pieces,
  • re main,
  • re-mains.
  •shaving (noun)
  • shaving.
  •shred (noun)
  • cantlets.
  •slice (noun)
  • piece pie,
  • thin pieces.
  •smidgen (noun)
  • small bits,
  • wee bits,
  • little bits,
  • small quantities.
  •splinter (noun)
  • thorn.
  •tiny piece, usually of wood or metal (noun)
  • snippet.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • sliver.
  •chip (verb)
  • cracking off,
  • cuts away,
  • cracked off,
  • cracks off.
  •cut (verb)
  • dis severed,
  • dis sever,
  • be heads,
  • be headed,
  • dis-patch,
  • re aping,
  • dis-severs,
  • dis patches,
  • re-aped,
  • re aped,
  • be-heads,
  • Sabered,
  • dis-sever,
  • dis patch,
  • dis patching,
  • lays open,
  • Flitched,
  • dis-severed,
  • be-heading,
  • dis severs,
  • dis-patched,
  • Sabering,
  • dis severing,
  • be-headed,
  • dis-patches,
  • Flitching,
  • be heading,
  • chining,
  • re-aping,
  • facetting,
  • dis-severing,
  • dis patched,
  • dis-patching.
  •flake (verb)
  • de laminated,
  • desquamating,
  • de-laminated,
  • ex foliated,
  • de laminating,
  • delaminates,
  • de-laminates,
  • desquamates,
  • ex foliating,
  • ex-foliating,
  • de laminate,
  • de-laminate,
  • ex foliates,
  • ex-foliated,
  • ex-foliate,
  • wore away,
  • de-squamate,
  • de-laminating,
  • de laminates,
  • desquamated,
  • ex foliate,
  • ex-foliates,
  • de squamate,
  • delaminated.
  •shave (verb)
  • de corticated,
  • de-corticated,
  • made bare,
  • making bare,
  • makes bare,
  • slicing thin,
  • de corticate,
  • sliced thin,
  • slices thin,
  • de-corticate.
  •shred (verb)
  • re duce,
  • making ragged,
  • re duces,
  • made ragged,
  • re-duces,
  • makes ragged,
  • re-duce.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tinge,
  • vestige.
  •
  • rock.
  •
  • hair,
  • tincture.
  •
  • measure.
  •flake
  • wear away,
  • Scabbed,
  • blistered,
  • desquamate,
  • wears away,
  • delaminate,
  • delaminating,
  • Scabbing,
  • wearing away.
  •paring
  • paring,
  • peeling.

Paraphrases for Sliver:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    piece.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    brightness, splinter.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shard, glare, glow, shine, brilliance, shrapnel.

Antonyms for Sliver:

• n.

  • tiny piece, usually of wood or metal
    whole.
  • Other antonyms:
    hunk, slab, chunk, lump.

Sliver Sentence Examples:

• I see it now, he remarked, and fetching from his pouch a pair of pincers he pulled from the cut a sliver of glass.

• Our orders are to get back there at maximum, and you know what that means aboard the Sliver.

Homophones for Sliver:

• Seckel Pear, school paper, shlepper, shellfire, sloop of war, silverware, social affair, silvery, schlepper, slabber, salivary, slipover, self-aware, sleepover, slobberer, slip of paper, syllabary, solver, squaw huckleberry, slaver, sleep over, silver, social welfare, slipper, sleepwear, sleeper, slavery, sulphur, slapper, shelver, sulfur, salvor, scalper, slippery, slivery, salver, slobber.

Hyponym for Sliver:

• n.

  • object
    chip, scrap, flake, fleck, bit.

• v.

  • change
    fragmentize, shape, fragmentise, break up, form, fragment.
  • social
    separate, split, divide, split up, carve up, dissever.