Sliver
noun
A small thin piece or a fragment of something.
He got a sliver of glass stuck in his finger.
Often appears as...
- sliver of glass
- sliver of wood
verb
To cut or break something into small thin pieces.
She slivered the almonds for the cake topping.
Often appears as...
- sliver almonds
- sliver wood
noun
A small thin piece or a fragment of something.
He got a sliver of glass stuck in his finger.
Often appears as...
- sliver of glass
- sliver of wood
verb
To cut or break something into small thin pieces.
She slivered the almonds for the cake topping.
Often appears as...
- sliver almonds
- sliver wood
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Minuscule Amount
A 'sliver' refers to a very tiny portion, indicating something barely noticeable or significant.
He offered me a sliver of his chocolate bar.
Pro Tip 2/3The Painful Sliver
'Sliver' can imply discomfort, especially when referring to something sharp in an injury context.
A sliver of metal pierced my foot.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Nuance
'Sliver' might have a slightly negative connotation, as it often suggests insufficiency or lack.
We only had a sliver of hope left.
Pro Tip 1/3Minuscule Amount
A 'sliver' refers to a very tiny portion, indicating something barely noticeable or significant.
He offered me a sliver of his chocolate bar.
Pro Tip 2/3The Painful Sliver
'Sliver' can imply discomfort, especially when referring to something sharp in an injury context.
A sliver of metal pierced my foot.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Nuance
'Sliver' might have a slightly negative connotation, as it often suggests insufficiency or lack.
We only had a sliver of hope left.
Pro Tip 1/3Minuscule Amount
A 'sliver' refers to a very tiny portion, indicating something barely noticeable or significant.
He offered me a sliver of his chocolate bar.
Pro Tip 2/3The Painful Sliver
'Sliver' can imply discomfort, especially when referring to something sharp in an injury context.
A sliver of metal pierced my foot.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Nuance
'Sliver' might have a slightly negative connotation, as it often suggests insufficiency or lack.
We only had a sliver of hope left.
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Watch the Total Solar...
you're gonna do is you're increase your box yes you need a screwdriver foil is helpful and a pair of scissors and also some white paper because I think this is the important part so you'll trace the bottom of the cereal box on a piece of white paper and you'll cut out a sliver that's the same size as the bottom of the cereal box and you'll
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Social Services Are...
they didn't necessarily have the answers, who said -- well, they weren't going to talk in jargon. They showed their human qualities and convinced the mothers that they would stick with them through thick and thin, even though they wouldn't be soft with them. So these new teams and the families were then given a sliver of the former budget,
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The real reason female...
So what this means is that if you're asked a question about defending your start-up's market share, you'd be better served to frame your response around the size and growth potential of the overall pie as opposed to how you merely plan to protect your sliver of that pie. So if I get asked this question,
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Abundance is our future...
And there's a very good reason for that. Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe
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Why our screens make us...
Now, this much. That's how much time we spend of that free time in front of our screens. This yellow area, this thin sliver, is where the magic happens. That's where your humanity lives. And right now, it's in a very small box. So what do we do about this? Well, the first question
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Taking care of the ocean...
was hard and now we have just a little sliver I wished for it you'll hear it on this little film clip a part of it at least to ignite public support to enlist all of you to enlist the world to really embrace the ocean to understand that our lives really depend on taking care of
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What happens in your...
And what you can see is that collapsing all the tissue down -- allows a different kind of really deep bass note. Alright, so with local anesthetic on board, a big black hose in the nose, we're going to let loose a sliver of his repertoire and see all this in play.
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Mind-blowing, magnified...
That's about one-seventh the width of a human hair. And then that provides me with a deep stack of images. Each has a tiny sliver of focus all the way through. And I can squash that down to produce one image that is fully focused from front to back.
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How small are we in the...
glimmering in a tiny sliver of the universe. Now, let's take a step back to understand the scale of this image. If you were to take a ballpoint pen and hold it at arm's length in front of the night sky, focusing on its very tip,
Video examples
To solve old problems,...
and to produce practical outcomes is actually restricting our ability to interrogate life to unacceptably narrow confines and unsatisfying depths. We are measuring an astonishingly narrow sliver of life,
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
you're gonna do is you're increase your box yes you need a screwdriver foil is helpful and a pair of scissors and also some white paper because I think this is the important part so you'll trace the bottom of the cereal box on a piece of white paper and you'll cut out a sliver that's the same size as the bottom of the cereal box and you'll
Video examples
Social Services Are...
they didn't necessarily have the answers, who said -- well, they weren't going to talk in jargon. They showed their human qualities and convinced the mothers that they would stick with them through thick and thin, even though they wouldn't be soft with them. So these new teams and the families were then given a sliver of the former budget,
Video examples
The real reason female...
So what this means is that if you're asked a question about defending your start-up's market share, you'd be better served to frame your response around the size and growth potential of the overall pie as opposed to how you merely plan to protect your sliver of that pie. So if I get asked this question,
Video examples
Abundance is our future...
And there's a very good reason for that. Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. And because nothing is more important to us than survival, the first stop of all of that data is an ancient sliver of the temporal lobe
Video examples
Why our screens make us...
Now, this much. That's how much time we spend of that free time in front of our screens. This yellow area, this thin sliver, is where the magic happens. That's where your humanity lives. And right now, it's in a very small box. So what do we do about this? Well, the first question
Video examples
Taking care of the ocean...
was hard and now we have just a little sliver I wished for it you'll hear it on this little film clip a part of it at least to ignite public support to enlist all of you to enlist the world to really embrace the ocean to understand that our lives really depend on taking care of
Video examples
What happens in your...
And what you can see is that collapsing all the tissue down -- allows a different kind of really deep bass note. Alright, so with local anesthetic on board, a big black hose in the nose, we're going to let loose a sliver of his repertoire and see all this in play.
Video examples
Mind-blowing, magnified...
That's about one-seventh the width of a human hair. And then that provides me with a deep stack of images. Each has a tiny sliver of focus all the way through. And I can squash that down to produce one image that is fully focused from front to back.
Video examples
How small are we in the...
glimmering in a tiny sliver of the universe. Now, let's take a step back to understand the scale of this image. If you were to take a ballpoint pen and hold it at arm's length in front of the night sky, focusing on its very tip,
Video examples
To solve old problems,...
and to produce practical outcomes is actually restricting our ability to interrogate life to unacceptably narrow confines and unsatisfying depths. We are measuring an astonishingly narrow sliver of life,
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Rob Manuel
Businessman
The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.
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Will Arnett
Canadian Actor
The thing I always try to hold onto with 'BoJack' and with 'Flaked' is that maybe there is a sliver of hope that they are going to turn it around. They are just having a tough time getting there. And that's the thing with 'BoJack' - he is obviously depressed.
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James Lipton
American Educator
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
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Paul Fleischman
American Writer
I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
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Rutger Bregman
Dutch Historian
Literally every single sliver of technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone instead of a stupidphone - internet, GPS, touchscreen, battery, hard drive, voice recognition - was developed by researchers on the government payroll.
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John Slattery
American Actor
As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.
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Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.
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Maggie Rowe
American Comedian
The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Richard Leakey
Kenyan Environmentalist
One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
Quote examples
Rob Manuel
Businessman
The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.
Quote examples
Will Arnett
Canadian Actor
The thing I always try to hold onto with 'BoJack' and with 'Flaked' is that maybe there is a sliver of hope that they are going to turn it around. They are just having a tough time getting there. And that's the thing with 'BoJack' - he is obviously depressed.
Quote examples
James Lipton
American Educator
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
Quote examples
Paul Fleischman
American Writer
I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
Quote examples
Rutger Bregman
Dutch Historian
Literally every single sliver of technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone instead of a stupidphone - internet, GPS, touchscreen, battery, hard drive, voice recognition - was developed by researchers on the government payroll.
Quote examples
John Slattery
American Actor
As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.
Quote examples
Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.
Quote examples
Maggie Rowe
American Comedian
The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Richard Leakey
Kenyan Environmentalist
One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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