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Sliver vs Cliver - What's the difference?

sliver | cliver |

As a noun 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.

As an adjective cliver is

clever.

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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    cliver

    English

    Adjective

  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) clever
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Harold Bindloss, title=The Buccaneer Farmer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There's ways a cliver agent can run up a reckoning, and when you want Mireside I'll have to gan." "}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Robert Michael Ballantyne, title=The World of Ice, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Ah, but it's a cliver trick, no doubt of it."}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1861, author=George Eliot, title=Silas Marner, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=For I've often a deal inside me as'll never come out; and for what you talk o' your folks in your old country niver saying prayers by heart nor saying 'em out of a book, they must be wonderful cliver ; for if I didn't know "Our Father", and little bits o' good words as I can carry out o' church wi' me, I might down o' my knees every night, but nothing could I say."}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1831, author=Edward Bulwer-Lytton, title=Eugene Aram, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Oh, they be cliver creturs, and they'll do what they likes with old Nick, when they gets there, for 'tis the old gentlemen they cozens the best; and then," continued the Corporal, waxing more and more loquacious, for his appetite in talking grew with that it fed on,--"then there be another set o' queer folks you'll see in Lunnon, Sir, that is, if you falls in with 'em,--hang all together, quite in a clink.}} ----