part vs sliver

part

verb
  • To be divided in two or separated; shed. 

  • To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion. 

  • To leave (an IRC channel). 

  • To cut hair with a parting; shed. 

  • To leave the company of. 

  • To divide in two. 

  • To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. 

noun
  • A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. 

  • The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece. 

  • Share, especially of a profit. 

  • A section of a document. 

  • Duty; responsibility. 

  • Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand". 

  • A group inside a larger group. 

  • In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. 

  • The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. 

  • A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense. 

  • A fraction of a whole. 

  • Position or role (especially in a play). 

  • A distinct element of something larger. 

  • 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink. 

  • A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region. 

  • A room in a public building, especially a courtroom. 

adj
  • Fractional; partial. 

adv
  • Partly; partially; fractionally. 

sliver

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

noun
  • 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. 

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

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