| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut outer covering off |
| Synonyms: | barber, brush, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, graze, kiss, make bare, pare, peel, plane, prune, shear, shingle, shred, skim, skin, slash, slice thin, sliver, strip, touch, trim |
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shard, flaw |
| Synonyms: | dent, flake, fragment, gobbet, nick, notch, paring, part, scrap, scratch, shaving, slice, sliver, wafer, wedge |
| Main Entry: | flake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scale, peel |
| Synonyms: | cell, disk, drop, foil, lamella, lamina, layer, leaf, membrane, pellicle, plate, scab, section, shaving, sheet, skin, slice, sliver, wafer |
| Main Entry: | sliver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny piece, usually of wood or metal |
| Synonyms: | bit, flake, fragment, paring, shaving, shred, slice, slip, snip, snippet, splinter, thorn |
| Main Entry: | smidgen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny amount |
| Synonyms: | atom, chicken feed, crumb, dab, dash, drop, fraction, fragment, grain, iota, little bit, mite, morsel, particle, pinch, scintilla, scrap, shard, shaving, shred, sliver, small amount, small bit, small quantity, speck, tad, taste, trace, wee bit, whiff, whisper |
| Main Entry: | splinter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thin piece of solid |
| Synonyms: | bit, chip, flake, fragment, needle, paring, shaving, sliver, wood |
| Main Entry: | minim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bit |
| Synonyms: | atom, butt*, chicken feed, chip, chunk, crumb, dab, dash, division, dollop, dose, dot, dram, driblet, drop*, droplet, end, excerpt, flake, fraction, fragment, grain, iota, item, jot, lick*, lump, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, niggle, ort, ounce, parcel, part, particle, peanuts, pinch, portion, sample, scale, scintilla, scrap, scruple, section, segment, shard, share, shaving, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, snatch, snip, snippet, specimen, speck, splinter, sprinkling, stub, stump, taste, tittle, trace, trickle, trifle, whit |
| Main Entry: | ort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bit |
| Synonyms: | atom, butt*, chicken feed, chip, chunk, crumb, dab, dash, division, dollop, dose, dot, dram, driblet, drop*, droplet, end, excerpt, flake, fraction, fragment, grain, iota, item, jot, lick*, lump, minim, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, niggle, ounce, parcel, part, particle, peanuts, pinch, portion, sample, scale, scintilla, scrap, scruple, section, segment, shard, share, shaving, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, snatch, snip, snippet, specimen, speck, splinter, sprinkling, stub, stump, taste, tittle, trace, trickle, trifle, whit |
| Main Entry: | tittle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bit |
| Synonyms: | atom, butt*, chicken feed, chip, chunk, crumb, dab, dash, division, dollop, dose, dot, dram, driblet, drop*, droplet, end, excerpt, flake, fraction, fragment, grain, iota, item, jot, lick*, lump, minim, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, niggle, ort, ounce, parcel, part, particle, peanuts, pinch, portion, sample, scale, scintilla, scrap, scruple, section, segment, shard, share, shaving, shred, slice, sliver, smidgen, snatch, snip, snippet, specimen, speck, splinter, sprinkling, stub, stump, taste, trace, trickle, trifle, whit |