Splinter : (나무금속유리 등의)조각, 가시, 쪼개지다, 깨지다, 쪼개다, 분열되다, 갈라지다
Splinter group : (특히 정치적인) 분파
Splinter off : 쪼개지다다, 분열되다, 갈라지다
1)
a splinter is a long sharp piece of something, normally a piece of wood
have you ever got a splinter in you hand?
you've been working with a piece of wood and then you suddenly get this little long sharp piece in your hand and you have to pull it out with some tweezers. that's a splinter
commonly a splinter is made of wood but it could be a splinter of glass or a splinter of plastic or a splinter of metal even
but probably for glass, I might use the word a shard
a splinter in your foot, it can be a very painful thing
it's splinter is like a fragment
a splinter, a small needle-like particle or a faction
2)
as a verb, to splinter, to break into small sharp pieces
the woold are cracked and splintered, you know wood breaks down the grains it's splintered
I heard this splintering sound
3)
we can also use this word, splinter figuratively, meaning break into several smaller pieces
you could have a splinter group, this is a group of people who've left an organization or a party and they formed a new one
the political parties are split into several splinter groups
we were working as a group and then part of the group splintered off to the left, separated off to the left
to separate away from a group
to break off in fragments figuratively as well
the political party is splintering into different pieces
to split into pieces
the group was splintered by descent
I threw the rock at the window and the glass splintered
it shattered, it fractured
splinter-proof glass, shatter-proof glass
Formality : 5 for a splinter
Formality : 4.5 - 5 for to splinter
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