(n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
(n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
(v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
(n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
(2) A splinter group of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Corsica had made a statement warning extremists that any attack on the island would trigger “a determined response, without any qualms”.
(3) Oleg Konstantinov, editor of local news site dumskaya.net, who was in hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and leg, and splinter wounds in his arm, said he had sent most of his reporters home for the two-day holiday.
(4) His National Congress party (NCP) feels sufficiently confident that it is not contesting 30% of the parliamentary seats, as an inducement to the splinter parties and smaller movements it has convinced to run in these elections.
(5) A patient with acute Leber's optic neuropathy had a large splinter retinal hemorrhage noted after he had strained to install fire hydrants.
(6) An elevated RP accumulation at the ends of the bone splinters was found from the 1st day after fracture.
(7) Splinter haemorrhages, hypocalcaemia and evidence of renal dysfunction were absent.
(8) The conclusion was drawn that the sciatic nerve is angulated at the osteotomy and further endangered by the risk of bone splintering at the sciatic notch.
(9) His power only grew after La Familia splintered, giving rise to the Knights Templar in 2011.
(10) In either case the chip waste also contains plenty of fine and finest compact chips which are broken off and splinter during the removal or knocking-off of the chips from solid bone.
(11) The various types of corticotomy, each with its own special purpose, include transverse or oblique, longitudinal, "splinter," and partial.
(12) Less than 24 hours after the murder, which many in Derry are blaming on the New IRA – an alliance of dissident republican splinter groups – the PSNI issued a description of Kieran McLaughlin.
(13) Extracts of Fernambouc splinters were made for serological testing.
(14) Last week a Taliban splinter group calling itself Asian Tigers executed Khalid Khawaja , a jihadi sympathiser it was holding hostage and accused of spying for the US and the Pakistani military.
(15) Iraq's "very future" will be determined in the coming days, the most senior US diplomat, John Kerry , said on Monday as he urged the country's feuding leaders to form a government and confront the jihadist surge currently splintering the country.
(16) Police inspector Mozammel Hoque said most of the injured were hit by bomb splinters but none was in critical condition.
(17) He wanted to check whether the abrasions and secondary wounds found on Steenkamp's body could have bee caused by wood splinters from the door.
(18) The duration of splinter hemorrhages ranged between six and 30 years.
(19) It can be shown that stone splinters do not injure the kidney tissue, but liquid jets generated by oscillating cavitation bubbles lead to tissue damage.
(20) Both excised lesions were abscesses, with associated granulomatous inflammation, fibrosis, and plant splinters.
Splitter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, splits.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.44am BST Heat 19-30 Spurs, 11:00 remaining in 2nd quarter Splitter assists Ginobili who hits a jumper, this Spurs run continues.
(2) Output measurements in water and in air indicated that scatter from the aluminum plate more than compensates for the reduction in backscatter factor, due to the decrease in irradiated area when the beam splitter is used.
(3) 2.46am GMT Red Sox 3 - Cardinals 1, bottom of 8th Uehara wastes no time, two splitters, two strikes.
(4) The metabolic products were diluted with carrier steroids, then separated and measured by thin-layer chromatography and by gas chromatography on an instrument equipped with a splitter.
(5) 1.08am BST Spurs starters are being announced, and Tiago Splitter once again is announced last.
(6) The mucosa of the dog; bladder and the pig renal pelvis, to which expansive splitter was made contact, showed no histological change after 30, 45 or 60 minutes after the contact.
(7) That plus maybe a few more three-pointers from Miami like that one... 4.11am BST Spurs 77-73 Heat - 10:26 remaining, 4th quarter Tiago Splitter hits a hook shot three... And Mike Miller hits a three-point shot in response, with just one shoe!
(8) Reflected light returns through the objective, exits the camera port, is reflected off the beam splitter, and is imaged on to the photocathode of an image dissector tube (IDT).
(9) The role of the cell state splitter is thus to create a mechanical instability corresponding to the embryonic state of "competence" in an otherwise mechanically stable cell.
(10) Tiago Splitter , center: The Brazilian, despite having a name that sounds like an ill-fated secondary pitch made up by a struggling pitcher, bounced around Brazil and Spain before making his debut with the Spurs in 2011.
(11) Go off into the oblivion [like] previous splitters from the Labour party have done.” Kenny said MPs opposing Corbyn had every right to stay in the party if they intended to initially argue for different policies as long as they ultimately supported the party.
(12) Grabbed by Kawhi Leonard, but Bosh blocks Splitter's layup attempt.
(13) 12.43am BST San Antonio Spurs starters Power forward : Kawhi Leonard Forward : Tim Duncan Center: Tiago Splitter Guard: Danny Green Guard: Tony Parker 12.40am BST Miami Heat starters Center: Chris Bosh Power forward: Rashard Lewis Small forward: LeBron James Shooting guard: Dwyane Wade Point guard: Mario Chalmers Inactive: Justin Hamilton , Michael Beasley.
(14) A beam splitter and camera equipment are essential accessories.
(15) The consequences of the silver splitters also has an impact on the family support system.
(16) 3.08am BST Heat 80-78 Spurs, 10:59 remaining in the 4th quarter Splitter draws a foul on Wade, but Mills tries to slip away the ball on Lewis after he gets a rebound, first foul on him.
(17) A rotating beam splitter was designed and fabricated for use in treating tangential breast fields on an AECL Theratron-80 cobalt teletherapy unit.
(18) Ukip are the splitters, who will let the left come through the middle in marginal seats.
(19) The new app enables you to crossfade, sync, loop and preview tracks (via a splitter adapter) from Spotify’s 20m-strong catalogue.
(20) The light passes through a beam splitter, enters an inverted microscope through the side camera port, and is imaged at the object by the microscope objective.