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Перевод: sliver

[существительное]
щепка ; лучина ; прядь ;
[глагол]
расщеплять; откалывать; расщепляться; откалываться

Тезаурус:

1. A cameraman and sound recordist filming scenes for the new Sharon Stone thriller Sliver were trapped in the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii.
2. Sharon could earn 16 million if her next film, Sliver, matches the success of Basic Instinct, which shot her to stardom.
3. "It must be the full moon," Lee grumbled, melting butter in a saucepan, and then remembered that the moon had been but a sliver the previous night.
4. Arrange the plants side by side and cut a thin sliver from each stem so that the two wounds exactly match when brought together.
5. "So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy.
6. (e) Bend back the lower end and use the knife to lift a sliver of pith to reveal the swelling of the embryo bud.
7. Lucille Castineau stared gravely at her reflection in the mirror which, because it was only a small broken sliver, was being held by her maid, Jeanette, who was forced to tilt the glass up and down in an effort to show her mistress the whole dress.
8. If there is a hollow instead of the swelling, you have prised out the bud with the pith sliver and ruined it - start again with another.
9. According to colleagues, whose judgment of distance had been honed over a day spent working on yardage charts, the sliver of wood was four centimetres long.
10. Elsewhere, and particularly south of the equator, the sea rules: north of 84 there is no land at all, and between 45S and the Antarctic Circle there is to all intents and purposes none either (just The Bluffs in New Zealand, a sliver of Patagonia and a few islands, unshakable relics of the British empire).
11. Their results showed a surprisingly large proportion of small, "sliver" polygons on the output maps.
12. It was cold that early in the morning, with a sliver of moon hanging among the stars.
13. Langston Hughes, the black poet Weill chose to write the lyrics for Street Scene, puts it pithily: Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.