Sliver can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
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| sliver - divide into slivers or splinters | ||
| sliver - form into slivers; "sliver wood" | ||
| sliver - break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" | ||
Noun |
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| sliver - A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. | ||
| sliver - A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, un twisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning. | ||
| sliver - Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. | ||
| sliver - A narrow high-rise apartment building. |
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| 1. | verb | Sliver wood. | |
| 2. | noun | It is estimated to have some 5,000 armed fighters, and they have pursued attacks against Israeli forces to compel them to withdraw from the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of Syrian territory that Israel annexed after the 1967 war. | |
| 3. | noun | Our evidence is no more than a tiny sliver of solid knowledge amidst the vast bog of doubts and speculations. |
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| Sliver wood. |
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| It is estimated to have some 5,000 armed fighters, and they have pursued attacks against Israeli forces to compel them to withdraw from the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of Syrian territory that Israel annexed after the 1967 war. |
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| Our evidence is no more than a tiny sliver of solid knowledge amidst the vast bog of doubts and speculations. | |