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Hunk vs Sliver - What's the difference?

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Hunk is a related term of sliver.


As nouns the difference between hunk and sliver

is that hunk is a large or dense piece of something while sliver is a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.

As a verb sliver is

to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

hunk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large or dense piece of something.
    • a hunk of metal
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
    • "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
  • (informal) A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular.
  • (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
  • (US, slang) A honyock.

    • Synonyms

    * (large or dense piece) chunk, lump, piece * (sexually attractive boy) beefcake

    Derived terms

    * hunky

    See also

    * bohunk

    References

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    sliver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
  • *:A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
  • A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
  • Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
  • (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

    • Synonyms

    * (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
    • to sliver wood
    (Shakespeare)
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • They'll sliver thee like a turnip.

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