Dictionary Definition
splinter n : a small thin sharp bit or wood or
glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into
flinders" [syn: sliver,
flinders]
Verb
1 withdraw from an organization or communion;
"After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
[syn: secede, break
away]
2 divide into slivers or splinters [syn: sliver]
3 break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood
splintered" [syn: sliver]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪntə(r)
Noun
Synonyms
- shard (1)
- splinter group (2)
- spelk
Translations
- Dutch: splinter (1), splintergroep (2)
- German: Splitter (1), Splittergruppe (2)
- Italian: scheggia
- Russian: заноза (zanóza)
- Spanish: astilla
Verb
- To come apart into splinters.
- To cause to break apart into splinters.
Translations
to come apart into splinters
- Dutch: versplinteren, splinteren
- German: zersplittern
to cause to break apart into splinters
- Dutch: versplinteren
- German: zersplittern
- Spanish: astillar
Extensive Definition
Splinter may refer to:
- a sharp fragment of material, usually wood, metal, or fiberglass, see wiktionary entry for splinter.
- Splinter or Schism (organizational), a division of an organization or movement into two, the smallerknown as a splinter.
It may also refer to:
Music
- Splinter (Bob Purvis and Bill Elliott), recording artists
- Splinter (Sneaker Pimps album), released 1999.
- Splinter (The Offspring album), released 2003.
Characters
- Splinter (TMNT), a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
- Splinter, an insect-like creature in the Nintendo game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
- Splinter, Woody Woodpecker's niece
Other
- Splinter bid, a type of bid in contract bridge
- Splinter super car, An American super car made of wood
- Splinter, a popular nickname of Greek basketball player Vassilis Spanoulis
- Splinter, an episode of the TV series Smallville.
splinter in French: Splinter
splinter in Italian: Lo Scheggia
splinter in Dutch: Splinter
splinter in Portuguese: Splinter
(desambiguação)
splinter in Swedish: Splinter
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
atomize, bit, black sheep, blemish, breach, break, break into pieces, break to
pieces, break up, breakage, breakaway group,
burst, butt, camp, caucus, chip, chunk, cleft, clip, clipping, collop, crack, crash, crumb, crunch, crush, cut, cut to pieces, cutting, demolish, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, disrupt, division, dollop, end, ethnic group, faction, fission, fissure, foreign body, foreign
intruder, fracture,
fragment, gap, gob, gobbet, grind, gruel, hunk, impurity, interest, interest group,
intruder, lath, lump, make mincemeat of, mere
shadow, mince, minority
group, misfit, modicum, moiety, monkey wrench, morceau, morsel, mote, nip, oddball, offshoot, paper, paring, particle, party, pash, patch, piece, political party, pressure
group, pulverize,
rail, rake, rasher, rent, rift, rip, rive, rupture, scale, scatter, scoop, scrap, sect, shadow, shard, shatter, shaving, shiver, shred, side, silent majority, skeleton, slash, slat, slice, slip, slit, sliver, smash, smash up, smatter, smithereen, snack, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, soup, speck, splinter group, split, squash, squish, stitch, stone, streak, stump, tag, tatter, tear, vein, vocal minority, wafer, weed, wing