splinter
Speech parts
1. splinter - Noun
2. splinter - Verb
3. Splinter - Proper noun
Meaning
To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
To become split into long pieces.
A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
He who stands near the woodcutter is likely to be hit by a splinter.
It is a splinter in the eye of somebody.
He can see the splinter in another's eye but cannot see even the beam in his own.