splinter — 英語辞典

名詞

1. A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.

2. A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood. A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.

3. A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.

4. A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.

5. A fragment of a component word in a blend.

動詞

1. To come apart into long sharp fragments.

   用法

   • 自動詞

   例文

   The tall tree splintered during the storm.

   その他の例文 (1)

   It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.

2. To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.

   用法

   • 他動詞

   例文

   His third kick splintered the door.

   After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy.

3. To break, or cause to break, into factions.

   用法

   • 比喩的
   • of a group

   例文

   The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.

   The unpopular new policies splintered the company.

4. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

   用法

   • 他動詞

   例文

   it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.

名詞

1. a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal

   同義語

   sliver

   上位語

   bitchipflakefleckscrap

   例文

   he got a splinter in his finger

   it broke into slivers

動詞

1. withdraw from an organization or communion

   同義語

   secedebreak away

   上位語

   separatepartsplit upsplitbreakbreak up

   例文

   After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away

2. divide into slivers or splinters

   同義語

   sliver

   上位語

   dividesplitsplit upseparatedissevercarve up

3. break up into splinters or slivers

   同義語

   sliver

   上位語

   break upfragmentfragmentizefragmentise

   例文

   The wood splintered