Paring
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
Sliver
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. kibblings.A narrow high-rise apartment building.
Example sentence: Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring out how one sliver works is really hard.