Shrapnel vs Splinters - What's the difference?
shrapnel | splinters |
(historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell or landmine.
(slang) Loose change.
debris caused by action of persons or animals.
As nouns the difference between shrapnel and splinters
is that shrapnel is an anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually while splinters is plural of lang=en.shrapnel
English
(wikipedia shrapnel)Noun
(-)- The dog did not eat my sandwich. It was in a bag. If he had eaten my sandwich, there'd be shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.