English Explanatory Dictionary

splint

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
  2. A splinter caught in the skin.
  3. A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
  4. A device to immobilize a body part.
  5. A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
  6. Synonym of splent coal.
  7. A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
  8. A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
verb
  1. To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
  2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
  3. To press fingers against the vaginal wall to ease defecation.
  4. To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.

Pronunciation

/splɪnt/ en-us-splint.ogg

Word forms

splint splints splinting splinted

Etymology

From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

Synonyms

splent coal

Derived words

coaptation splint Frejka splint shin splint splintage splint bone splint coal splinter splintless splintlike splintwork nonsplinted nonsplinting splintable unsplinted

Translations

Albanian: ashkël Bulgarian: тънка ивица Bulgarian: лента Bulgarian: ши́на Catalan: fèrula Finnish: säle Finnish: lasta French: éclisse French: attelle Galician: tala Galician: férula Hungarian: gyújtópálca Hungarian: sín Irish: spliota Irish: meathán (in basketweaving) Italian: scheggia Italian: scaglia Italian: frammento Italian: stecca Italian: tutore Japanese: 添木 Japanese: スプリント Latvian: skaida Middle English: splente Norwegian Bokmål: splint Norwegian Bokmål: flis Norwegian Nynorsk: splint Norwegian Nynorsk: flis Portuguese: férula Portuguese: tala Romanian: așchie Romanian: atelă Russian: щепа́ Russian: ще́пка Russian: дра́нка Russian: лы́ко Russian: ши́на Russian: лубо́к Serbo-Croatian: и̏вер Serbo-Croatian: тре̏ска Serbo-Croatian: ȉver Serbo-Croatian: trȅska Serbo-Croatian: у̏длага Serbo-Croatian: ȕdlaga Slovak: latka Slovak: dlaha Afrikaans: spalk Czech: dlaha Dutch: spalk German: Schiene German: Gipsschiene Ancient Greek: νάρθηξ Hebrew: סד Icelandic: spelka Indonesian: bidai Latin: serperastrum Lithuanian: įtvaras Māori: tāhū Norwegian: spjelke Polish: szyna Spanish: férula Spanish: tablilla Swedish: skena Tagalog: balangkat Turkish: atel Ottoman Turkish: تخته Ukrainian: ши́на Vietnamese: nẹp
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