Crossword clues for sliver
sliver
- Thin fragment
- Bit of broken glass
- Thin wood fragment
- Thin piece
- Sharon Stone film
- Broken-glass residue
- Very small portion
- Tiny pie piece
- Thin piece broken off
- Small slice
- Small and slender slice
- Skimpy cake serving
- Sharp, thin shard
- Ready to be polished, perhaps
- Pie slice for a dieter
- Narrow shard
- Narrow portion
- Glass shard
- Dieter's pie slice
- Broken glass residue
- Mere 1%, say
- Chip off the old block?
- Glass splinter
- Tiny slice of pie
- Dieter's piece of cake?
- A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
- A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- Loose fiber of flax
- Small piece
- Splinter
- Wood shaving
- Fragment
- Wood fragment
- Dieter's cut of pie
- Dieter's portion
- Small sharp piece
- Narrow sharp fragment
- Thin slice
- Small portion
- Thin cut
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
sliver \sliv"er\ (sl[i^]v"[~e]r or sl[imac]"v[~e]r; 277), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. slivered (sl[i^]v"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n.
slivering.] [See Slive, v. t.]
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small
pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver
wood.
--Shak.
They 'll sliver thee like a turnip.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"splinter of wood," late 14c., from obsolete verb sliven "to split, cleave," from Old English toslifan "to split, cleave" (see sleave).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. 2 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. 3 bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. 4 (context US New York English) A narrow high-rise apartment building. vb. (context transitive English) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
WordNet
n. a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders" [syn: splinter, flinders]
a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something [syn: paring, shaving]
v. divide into slivers or splinters [syn: splinter]
break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" [syn: splinter]
form into slivers; "sliver wood"
Wikipedia
'' Sliver'' (1991) is a novel by U.S. author Ira Levin about the mysterious people in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building, especially after a new tenant — an attractive young working woman in publishing — has moved in. The novel became the basis for the 1993 film of the same name starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Polly Walker and Tom Berenger .
"Sliver" is a song by American rock band Nirvana. It was originally released as a non-album single in 1990 by Sub Pop. DGC re-released the song to radio to support the release of the rarities compilation album Incesticide in 1992.
Music from the Motion Picture Sliver is a soundtrack album for the 1993 film Sliver. It peaked at number 23 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified gold by the RIAA on December 17, 1993.
Sliver may refer to:
Sliver is the first EP by the Finnish Gothic Rock band Entwine.
Sliver is a 1993 erotic thriller film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York high-rise apartment building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. Because of a major battle with the MPAA (which originally gave the film an NC-17 rating), the filmmakers were forced to make extensive reshoots before release. These reshoots actually necessitated changing the killer's identity. The film stars Sharon Stone, William Baldwin and Tom Berenger.
According to the movie, the tall and narrow sliver building is located at 113 East 38th Street in Manhattan, placing it at 38th Street and Park Avenue. The actual building used in the film is known as Morgan Court, located at 211 Madison Avenue New York, one block west and two blocks south of the fictional address. The building has since become a condominium development. It was built in 1985 and has 32 floors. While the movie made use of the building's courtyard, the lobby was a Los Angeles film set.
When he signed on to direct the film, Phillip Noyce remarked "I liked the script a lot. Or at least, I liked the idea of jumping on the Joe Eszterhas bandwagon."
Usage examples of "sliver".
To retrieve and decode that sliver, Riveroma needs a string of information that will be found coded onto a specific antibody which he will find in your bloodstream.
Cars jumped as the barrage of 1 mm needles punched through chassis and engine, every window along the entire street shattering under the arrival of the deadly depleted-uranium, hollow-point slivers.
Behind him came a griffin, a wyvern, a four-footed whale, several carnivorous rabbits, a pair of trolls, a thunderbird, a sliver cat, a hippogriff, a satyr, a winged horse, three hoopsnakes, a pantheon, a firedrake, a monoceros, a double-headed eagle, a cyclops, a flight of barnacle geese, a chimera, and a number of creatures of less ordinary aspect that Dor could not identify in the rush.
Shimmering slivers of prismed sunlight randomly found their way to earth as the breeze shifted the great branches overhead.
I guess having ten legs, each with a sliver of retractile claw on the end, is a pretty good substitute for fingers.
Imperial Roum, and the rubble of the Time of Sweeping, and books inscribed on slivers of white metal, written toward the close of the Second Cycle.
Julian sprinkled on the Parmesan slivers as well as judicious amounts of chopped chivesnever scallions, as this was another thing the do-the-catering-yourself crowd kept their eyes out for.
The penultimate course was presented-tiny tartlets filled with quince and nuts, and fragrant cheeses with toasted slivers of bread-and Javan gradually began to relax a little.
The sliver was a crystallite unscrambler, the active portion of the gadget consisting of a particular pattern of tiny crystals of tungsten embedded in an aluminum matrix.
Though even a sliver of unshelved wallspace in a bookshop might seem like folly in these parts, the view from the street was seductive.
The sun was only a sliver on the horizon, above the Los Angeles skyline off to the east.
Insert 2 or 3 garlic and ginger slivers in each hole, and poke the cloves into the meat at evenly spaced intervals.
At length he became aware that the djinni had come close again, and was sitting on its haunches, idly stirring a long sliver of wood in the fire.
When at last the Eritrean guides pointed out to Castelani the shallow forested valley below them, there was sufficient light from the sliver of silver moon overhead for Castelani to survey the ground with the eye of an old professional.
Choosing a forklike utensil, Stevens carefully pared off a sliver of the mass and popped it into his mouth.