Sliver vs Slive - What's the difference?
sliver | slive |
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.
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
* Sir Walter Scott
(transitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
(transitive, obsolete, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.
(dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
As nouns the difference between sliver and slive
is that sliver is a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter while slive is (dialectal) a slice or sliver; , chip.As verbs the difference between sliver and slive
is that sliver is to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit while slive is (transitive|obsolete|or|dialectal) to cut; split; separate or slive can be (dialectal|northern england|scotland) to sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.sliver
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinterVerb
(en verb)- to sliver wood
- (Shakespeare)
- They'll sliver thee like a turnip.
