sirpale — meaning in English

English meaning

• fragment noun A small broken-off piece of something larger.
• shard noun A sharp broken piece of glass, pottery, or similar brittle material.
• splinter noun A thin, sharp fragment broken off from a larger piece, often wood.
• split verb To divide something into parts, often along a line.

Senses

sirpale is used for these senses in English:

• cantle (obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
• shard (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
• smither (chiefly, in the plural) A fragment, shard or small piece.
• splinter A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
• split A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

fragment — full definition

1. noun A small broken-off piece of something larger.
2. verb To break into pieces, or to split apart.

shard — full definition

1. noun A sharp broken piece of glass, pottery, or similar brittle material.
2. noun In computing, one segment of a database or online game world that has been split up to spread the load across multiple servers.

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