Usually means: Thin, small piece or slice.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sliver: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sliver: Merriam-Webster
  3. sliver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sliver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sliver: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sliver: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sliver, sliver: Wordnik
  8. sliver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sliver: Wiktionary
  10. sliver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sliver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sliver: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sliver: Dictionary.com
  14. sliver: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sliver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sliver (EP), Sliver (Nirvana album), Sliver (disambiguation), Sliver (film), Sliver (novel), Sliver (song), Sliver (soundtrack), Sliver (textiles), Sliver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sliver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sliver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sliver: Rhymezone
  20. Sliver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sliver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SLIVER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. sliver: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. sliver: FreeDictionary.org
  25. sliver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. sliver: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. sliver: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sliver: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. sliver: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sliver: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sliver: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sliver: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. sliver: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See slivered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
noun:  (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
noun:  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.
noun:  (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
noun:  (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
noun:  A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
verb:  (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

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