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Silvered vs Slivered - What's the difference?

silvered | slivered |

Slivered is a anagram of silvered.



As verbs the difference between silvered and slivered

is that silvered is past tense of silver while slivered is past tense of sliver.

As an adjective silvered

is coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.

silvered

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Coated with silver, made reflective or shiny by application of metal.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (silver)

    • Anagrams

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    slivered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sliver)

    • Anagrams

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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.

    Anagrams

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