splinter
part of speech
noun (a splinter, splinters); verb (splinter, splinters, splintered, splintering)
meaning for a pupil
1) A splinter is a small, sharp, thin piece of wood, glass or metal that has broken off, especially one that gets stuck in your skin. tree →
2) To splinter means to break into small sharp pieces. tree →
sense in the lessons
In first-aid lessons: a small splinter can be taken out by an adult with clean tweezers after washing the skin; deep splinters or glass need a doctor. In safety: wear shoes on old wooden decks and be careful with rough wood in design and technology lessons. Phrases: get a splinter, take out a splinter, splinter group.
examples
- I got a splinter from the wooden fence. tree →
- Mum took the splinter out with tweezers. tree →
- Wash the skin after removing a splinter. tree →
- The old door splintered when it was hit. tree →
- Wear shoes on the wooden deck to avoid splinters. tree →
- Sand the wood smooth so there are no splinters. tree →
- A splinter of glass was in the carpet. tree →
- The splinter in my finger hurt a lot. tree →
- It did not hurt him at all, but the splinter was there all the same. tree →
note
Countable. Not the same as a «splint», which is a stiff support tied to a broken bone. Do not squeeze a splinter deeper; ask an adult.
In the corpora
- Cooked bones splinter and can choke a dog or hurt its insides.
- Sticks can splinter and stab a dog's mouth or throat, so a ball or rubber toy is safer to throw.
- A splinter should be removed by an adult with clean tweezers and the skin washed, because a splinter left in can get infected.
- A splinter left in the skin can let germs in and cause an infection.
- Gardening gloves protect your hands from thorns, splinters, germs in the soil and insect stings.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «splinter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.