What is the difference between splint and splinter?
splint | splinter |
A narrow strip of wood split or peeled off of a larger piece.
(medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
A segment of armor.
A bone found on either side of the horse's cannon bone; second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
splent coal
To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
(obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
To come apart into long sharp fragments.
To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
* Prescott
(figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
Splinter is a related term of splint.
In transitive terms the difference between splint and splinter
is that splint is to apply a splint to; to fasten with splints while splinter is to fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.splint
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(en noun)- 1900' ''But it so happened that I had a man in the hospital at the time, and going there to see about him the day before the opening of the Inquiry, I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in '''splints , and quite light-headed.'' Joseph Conrad, ''Lord Jim ,
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- 1819 The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by ''splints'' , or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour.'' — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe ,
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Usage notes
* For a horse to (term) is for it to receive an injury to the splint bone or surrounding area.Derived terms
* shin splintVerb
(en verb)- (Florio)
splinter
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (long sharp fragment) shard, spelk. * (group formed by splitting) faction, splinter group.Verb
(en verb)- The tall tree splintered during the storm.
- His third kick splintered the door.
- After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and abandoned the field to the enemy.
- The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
- The unpopular new policies splintered the company.
- (Bishop Wren)