sliver

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To make matters worse, the neighbor who received the other sliver is asking for half of your sliver and everyone in the area, even your dumb friends, thinks that is fair.

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  1. noun A slender piece cut, split, or broken off; a splinter: slivers of broken glass.
  2. noun A small narrow piece, portion, or plot: a sliver of land.
  3. noun A continuous strand of loose wool, flax, or cotton, ready for drawing and twisting.
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  • Hahahahaha.' It was initially difficult to make out a face atop what the sliver was attempting to pass off as a body - at least until you knew what you were looking for. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • Fortunately, the sliver wasn't equipped for multi-tasking, so couldn't listen and concentrate on keeping his fag lit at the same time. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • To make matters worse, the neighbor who received the other sliver is asking for half of your sliver and everyone in the area, even your dumb friends, thinks that is fair. —  POLITICO MAFIOSO
  • The quickest, easiest way to increase capacity of newspapers would be for a sliver of stimulus money -- an accountability expense -- to be set aside to subsidize "accountability journalists." —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Although supplying just a sliver-barely 3\%-of the nation's electricity, nonpolluting renewables such as wind, solar, and geothermal are the fastest-growing type of power being added to the grid. —  BusinessWeek.com --
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  1. Middle English slivere, from sliven, to split, from Old English slīfan.

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  1. from Middle English sliver, slivere, sleyvere, diminutive of slive (as shiver of shive, and splinter of splint); or from sliver, v., then a freq. of slive: see slive, v.
  2. See sliver, n., slive, v.
 

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