leaf vs sliver

leaf

noun
  • A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin. 

  • Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. 

  • A flat section used to extend the size of a table. 

  • One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small. 

  • The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat. 

  • A Canadian person. 

  • The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. 

  • A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement. 

  • A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into. 

  • A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf). 

  • Tea leaves. 

  • In a tree, a node that has no descendants. 

  • Cannabis. 

verb
  • To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. 

  • To produce leaves; put forth foliage. 

sliver

noun
  • A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred. 

  • A narrow high-rise apartment building. 

  • 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. 

  • Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin. 

  • A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. 

  • Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. 

verb
  • To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit. 

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