Sliver

Noun

 * 1) A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
 * 2) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
 * 3) Bait made of pieces of small fish.  Compare kibblings.
 * 4)  A narrow high-rise apartment building.

Synonyms

 * shard, slice, splinter

Verb

 * 1)  To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

Thesaurus
bit, black sheep, blemish, butt, carve, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb, cut, cutting, dollop, end, flake, foreign body, foreign intruder, fragment, gob, gobbet, haggle, hunk, impurity, intruder, lump, misfit, modicum, moiety, monkey wrench, morceau, morsel, mote, nip, oddball, paring, particle, patch, piece, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shave, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, slip, smithereen, snack, snatch, snick, snip, snippet, speck, splinter, stitch, stone, stump, tag, tatter, weed

Etymology
slivere, sliver from sliven "to cut, cleave, split" from  -slīfan (as in tōslīfan "to split, split up").

Noun

 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Splitter, kleiner Teil, kleines Stück
 * Icelandic:, flaski
 * Italian: ,


 * Romanian: ,
 * Slovene: trska
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: flisa, speta,, speta,
 * Turkish: kıymık, ince dilim


 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: Band, Faserband


 * Turkish: kordon, şerit


 * French:
 * Spanish: cebo lengüeta


 * Swedish: livagn


 * French: ,
 * Italian:


 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * livers
 * silver, Silver