Definitions for sliver

• Definition
• Anagrams (126)

sliver sliv·er

Spelling: [sliv-er]

IPA: /ˈslɪv ər/

Sliver is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in sliver (eilrsv).

Definitions for sliver

noun

1. a small, slender, often sharp piece, as of wood or glass, split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter.
2. any small, narrow piece or portion:
3. a strand of loose, untwisted fibers produced in carding.

verb (used with object)

1. to split or cut off (a sliver) or to split or cut into slivers:
2. to form (textile fibers) into slivers.

verb (used without object)

1. to split.

Origin of sliver

1325-75; Middle English slivere (noun), derivative of sliven to split, Old English -slīfan (in tōslīfan to split up

Examples for sliver

No such difference can be perceived in the sliver at the drawing frame.

Leaving the OR that night, I looked up the clear sky, at the flocks of white seagulls and a sliver of crescent moon.

Our orders are to get back there at maximum, and you know what that means aboard the sliver.

“The sliver of swing votes in the South is small,” said Arceneaux.

It doesn't mean a thing though, as far as the sliver is concerned.

Despite name ID and fluent Spanish (there was a sizable Hispanic population in the area), he lost by a sliver.

And if he can stabilize this sliver of the country, it could prevent another devastating war.

Her opinion of Nirvana, and the tiny boy, changed entirely when she bought the “sliver” single in October 1990.

But, as he held it and picked up a sliver, a thought occurred to him.

The sliver, now being twisted, is called a sliver no longer, but the slubbing.