Woodchip vs Splinter - What's the difference?
woodchip | splinter |
A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0,5 to 10 cm by diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.
A small fibre of wood; especially such material as used to make ingrain wallpaper, aka woodchip wallpaper. See Wikipedia article on (ingrain wallpaper).
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.
As nouns the difference between woodchip and splinter
is that woodchip is a small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0,5 to 10 cm by diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch while splinter is a long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.As a verb splinter is
to come apart into long sharp fragments.woodchip
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Alternative forms
* wood-chip * wood chipNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* woodchipper * woodchippingsplinter
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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)