Crossword clues for splinter
splinter
- Sharp sliver of wood
- Sellers turned up bearing dressing material for minor wound
- Woodworker's worry
- Offshoot group
- Cause for tweezers and a magnifying glass
- Break into factions
- Whittling hazard
- Stealth action video game franchise bearing Tom Clancy's name / Breakaway organization
- Peter Green ___ Group
- Breakaway faction
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splinter \Splin"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Splintered; p. pr. & vb. n. Splintering.] [Cf. LG. splittern, splinteren. See Splint, n., Split.]
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To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy.
--Prescott. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
--Bp. Wren.
Splinter \Splin"ter\, v. i. To become split into long pieces.
Splinter \Splin"ter\, n. [See Splinter, v., or Splint, n.] 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. Splinter bar.
A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs.
The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Middle Dutch splinter, splenter "a splinter," related to splinte (see splint). The adjective (in splinter party, etc.) is first recorded 1935, from the noun.
1580s (transitive), from splinter (n.). Figurative sense from c.1600. Intransitive use from 1620s. Middle English had splinder (v.) "to shatter" (of a spear, etc.), mid-15c. Related: Splintered; splintering.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood. 2 A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To come apart into long sharp fragments. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments. 3 (context figuratively of a group English) To break, or cause to break, into factions. 4 (context transitive English) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
WordNet
v. withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" [syn: secede, break away]
divide into slivers or splinters [syn: sliver]
break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" [syn: sliver]
Wikipedia
A splinter is a sharp fragment of material, usually wood, metal, or fibreglass.
Splinter may also refer to:
Master Splinter, or simply Splinter, is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media.
Splinter is the second full studio album from Sneaker Pimps. Released in 1999, Splinter is the first release from the band without Kelli Dayton singing lead vocals; she was replaced by founding band member Chris Corner.
Splinter is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released on December 9, 2003. It was the first album the band released without drummer Ron Welty and also the first to have a Parental Advisory label on some album covers, even though all of their previous albums contain profanity.
Although not as successful as The Offspring's albums between Smash and Conspiracy of One, Splinter received gold certification two months after its release. The album received average reviews, but still sold reasonably well. It debuted at 30 on the U.S. Billboard 200 with around 87,000 copies sold in its first week. " Hit That" and " (Can't Get My) Head Around You" were the only two singles to accompany this album. " Spare Me the Details" was also released as a single, but charted only in New Zealand.
Splinter were a two-man vocal group from South Shields, England, consisting of Bill Elliott (William Elliott) and Bobby Purvis (Robert J Purvis), who formed in the early 1970s.
They were connected with ex- Beatle George Harrison, and had groups of instrumentalists to back them on each album. Splinter was the first act signed to Harrison's Dark Horse Records label, when it was partnered with A&M Records. The band's sound has often been likened to that of The Beatles (particularly Harrison and John Lennon) and Badfinger. The duo's biggest success came with their debut album, the critically admired The Place I Love (1974), which contained the hit single "Costafine Town". The Place I Love and the follow-up Harder to Live have been remastered and reissued on compact disc on the Big Pink Music label from South Korea. The remainder of Splinter's catalogue is out of print and has yet to be issued on compact disc.
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The Splinter is a two-seater American supercar concept made of wood. It was created by a team led by Joe Harmon, an industrial designer from North Carolina. There are no plans to mass-produce this vehicle.
Splinter is a 2008 horror film directed by Toby Wilkins. It had a limited theatrical release on October 31, 2008 and stars Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, and Jill Wagner. It was filmed near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. HDNet Movies aired the film two days prior to its theatrical release.
Splinter is a 2006 American police- action film set in Los Angeles directed by Michael D. Olmos and starring Tom Sizemore, Noel Gugliemi and Edward James Olmos.
The movie's concept originated with writer and actor Enrique Almeida, who portrays the film's lead character. Noel Gugliemi, who starred as the lead character's brother, stated that the filmmakers wanted to create "a Mexican version of Friday, a Mexican version of Menace II Society." The film grossed $12,918 in United States theaters.
A splinter is a fragment of a larger object (especially wood), or a foreign body that penetrates or is purposely injected into a body. The foreign body must be lodged inside tissue to be considered a splinter. Splinters may cause initial pain through ripping of flesh and muscle, infection through bacteria on the foreign object, and severe internal damage through migration to vital organs or bone over time.
Splinters commonly consist of wood, but there are many other types. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), common types of splinters are glass, plastic, metal, and spines of animals.
Splinter, published in 2007, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts. It is based on an earlier story by the author, "Hector Servadac, fils", which was part of The Mammoth Book of Jules Verne Adventures. It is a reworking of Off on a Comet, an 1877 novel by Jules Verne. The hardcover edition of the novel is included in a slipcase with a hardcover edition of Off on a Comet.
Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind) is the twentieth studio album by English musician Gary Numan, released on 9 October 2013 by Mortal Records and Cooking Vinyl. The album debuted at number twenty on the UK Albums Chart on sales of 6,187 copies, becoming Numan's highest-charting album since 1983's Warriors.
Usage examples of "splinter".
He streaked acrost that log like it was a quarter-track, with the bark and splinters flying from under his hoofs, and if one foot had slipped a inch, it would of been Sally bar the door.
We have also seen in the numbered experiments that narrow splinters of quill and of very thin glass, affixed with shellac, caused only a slight degree of deflection, and this may perhaps have been due to the shellac itself.
At the time she had not known about old plaster, old stairs, old walls, nothing about splintered woodwork and senile plumbing-either balky or incontinent.
This close, the nine-millimeter slugs would blow clean through his chest, splintering bone like balsa wood.
We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips and splintered deeply.
Wood snapped, glass exploded and Barnacle, speckled with splinters, billowed through yellow velvet and out into the late afternoon!
A ball had smashed the rail, missed the mainmast by inches, and killed and crippled, mainly from splinters.
The wretch screamed through a ruin of splintered teeth, blowing bloody froth from his mangled lips.
The people gave back as the body came hurtling down, to smash on the marble pave, spattering blood and brains, and lie crushed in its splintered armor, like a mangled beetle.
Even so, one stone struck a mantlet straight on, reducing it to a cloud of splinters and blood, then skipped further to crush another soldier.
They pressed on as branches fell all about them, as the ground shivered beneath their feet, as lightning dazzled in wave upon wave until day and night melded and splintered and here and there in the forest trees exploded into flame where lightning struck and dry limbs and dry leaves flashed and blazed.
Every niche was filled with them - skulls, thigh-bones, tiny metatarsals, fragments and splinters.
It bounced off a stay, collided with the midmast, then struck the deck with a splintering crash.
However, the barge crew remained unruffled during the wild ride, as they expertly plied their poles and steering oar to keep us in midstream and well away from the rock walls that could have ground us to splinters.
Her hand closed on something, but it was only the butt of dead Millwards halberd, a length of splintered wood.