to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
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to separate by cutting, chopping, etc., usually lengthwise: to split a piece from a block.
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to tear or break apart; rend or burst: The wind split the sail.
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to divide into distinct parts or portions (often fol. by up): We split up our rations.
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to separate (a part) by such division.
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to divide (persons) into different groups, factions, parties, etc., as by discord: to split a political party.
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to separate (a group, family, etc.) by such division.
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to cast (a ballot or vote) for candidates of more than one political party.
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to divide between two or more persons, groups, etc.; share: We split a bottle of wine.
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to separate into parts by interposing something: to split an infinitive.
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Physics,Chemistry. to divide (molecules or atoms) by cleavage into smaller parts.
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to issue additional shares of (stock) without charge to existing stockholders, thereby dividing their interest into a larger number of shares and reducing the price per share.
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Slang. leave; depart from: Let's split this scene.
–verb (used without object)
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to divide, break, or part lengthwise: The board split in half.
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to part, divide, or separate in any way (often fol. by up): The group of children split up into two teams. We'll split up here and meet later.
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to break asunder, as a ship by striking on a rock.
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to become separated, as a piece or part from a whole.
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to part or separate, as through disagreement; sever relations: They split up after a year of marriage. He split with the company after a policy dispute.
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to divide or share something with another or others; apportion.
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Slang. to leave; depart.
–noun
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the act of splitting.
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a crack, tear, or fissure caused by splitting.
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a piece or part separated by or as by splitting.
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a breach or rupture, as between persons, in a party or organization, etc.
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a faction, party, etc., formed by a rupture or schism.
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an ice-cream dish made from sliced fruit, usually a banana, and ice cream, and covered with syrup and nuts.
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Also called, especially British, nip.a bottle for wine or, sometimes, another beverage, containing from 6 to 61/2 oz. (170 to 184 g).
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a bottle, as of soda, liquor, etc., which is half the usual size.
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a strip split from an osier, used in basketmaking.
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Masonry. a brick of normal length and breadth but of half normal thickness, used to give level support to a course of bricks laid over one not level.
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Often, splits.the feat of separating the legs while sinking to the floor, until they extend at right angles to the body, as in stage performances or gymnastics.
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Bowling. an arrangement of the pins remaining after the first bowl in two separated groups, so that a spare is difficult.
To divide from end to end or along the grain by or as if by a sharp blow. See Synonyms at tear1.
To break, burst, or rip apart with force; rend. See Synonyms at break.
To affect with force in a way that suggests tearing apart: A lightning bolt split the night sky.
To separate (people or groups, for example); disunite.
To divide and share: split a dessert.
To divide, as for convenience or proper ordering: split the project up into stages.
To separate (leather, for example) into layers.
To mark (a vote or ballot) in favor of candidates from different parties.
To divide (stock) by issuing multiples of the existing stock with a corresponding reduction in the price of each share, so that the total value of the stock is unchanged.
Sports To win half the games of (a series or double-header).
Slang To depart from; leave: a mobster who suddenly split town.
v.
intr.
To become separated into parts, especially to undergo lengthwise division.
To become broken or ripped apart, especially from internal pressure.
To become or admit of being divided: Let's split up into teams. This poem doesn't split up into stanzas very well.
Informal To become divided or part company as a result of discord or disagreement: She split with the regular party organization. They split up after a year of marriage.
To divide or share something with others.
Slang To depart; leave: All the older kids have split to go dancing.
n.
The act of splitting or the result of it.
A breach or rupture in a group.
A splinter.
Something divided and portioned out; a share.
Sports The recorded time for an interval or segment of a race.
A strip of flexible wood used for making baskets.
A bottle of an alcoholic or carbonated beverage half the usual size.
A drink of half the usual quantity.
A half pint.
A dessert of sliced fruit, ice cream, and toppings.
Sports An acrobatic feat in which the legs are stretched out straight in opposite directions at right angles to the trunk. Often used in the plural.
Sports An arrangement of bowling pins left standing after a bowl, in which two or more pins remain standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
A single thickness of a split hide.
adj.
Having been divided or separated.
Fissured longitudinally; cleft.
Quoted in 16ths rather than in 8ths. Used of stocks.
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A city of southwest Croatia on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea. Founded as a Roman colony, it later grew around a palace built by Diocletian in the early fourth century A.D. Population: 188,000.
1590, from M.Du. splitten, from P.Gmc. *spl(e)it- (cf. Dan., Fris. splitte, O.Fris. splita, Ger. spleißen "to split"), from PIE *(s)plei- "to split, splice" (see flint). Meaning "leave, depart" first recorded 1954, U.S. slang. Of couples, "to separate, divorce" from 1942. To split the difference is from 1715; to split (one's) ticket in the U.S. political sense is attested from 1842. The acrobatic feat first so called in 1861. Meaning "sweet dish of sliced fruit with ice cream" is attested from 1920, Amer.Eng. Splitting image "exact likeness" is from 1880. Split screen is from 1953; split shift is from 1955; split personality first attested 1919. Split-level as a type of building plan is recorded from 1952. Split-second first attested 1884, in ref. to a type of stopwatch with two second hands that could be stopped independently; adj. meaning "occurring in a fraction of a second" is from 1946.
having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" [syn: disconnected]
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(especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace"
noun
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extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
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a bottle containing half the usual amount
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a promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded his split before they disbanded"
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a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"
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an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip]
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an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea
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a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
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(tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame"
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an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"
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the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent]
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division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy" [syn: schism]
verb
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separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: divide] [ant: unify]
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separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: cleave]
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discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [syn: separate]
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go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [syn: separate]
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come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst" [syn: burst]
— present participle ˈsplitting split to cut or (cause to) break lengthwise Example: past tense, past participleto split firewood; The skirt split all the way down the back seam.
Split\, n. 1. (a) (Basketwork) Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; -- usually in pl. (b) (Weaving) Any of the dents of a reed. (c) Any of the air currents in a mine formed by dividing a larger current. 2. Short for Split shot or stroke. 3. (Gymnastics) The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind. [Cant or Slang] 4. A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; -- so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass. [Cant or Slang]
Split\, a. (Exchanges) (a) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; -- said of an order, sale, etc. (b) Of quotations, given in sixteenth, quotations in eighths being regular; as, 103/16 is a split quotation. (c) (London Stock Exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
Splice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spliced; p. pr. & vb. n. Splicing.] [D. splitsen, splitten; akin to G. splissen, Sw. splissa, Dan. splisse, and E. split; -- from the dividing or splitting the ends into separate strands. See Split, v. t.]1. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope. 2. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast. 3. To unite in marrige. [Slang] Splice grafting.ee under Grafting. To splice the main brace (Naut.), to give out, or drink, an extra allowance of spirits on occasion of special exposure to wet or cold, or to severe fatigue; hence, to take a dram.
Splint\, n. [Akin to D. splinter,G. splinter, splitter, Dan. splint, Sw. splint a kind of spike, a forelock (in nautical use), Sw. splintato splint, splinter, Dan. splinte, and E. split. See Split, v. t., and cf. Splent.]1. A piece split off; a splinter. 2. (Surg.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set. 3. (Anat.) A splint bone. 4. (Far.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence. 5. (Anc. Armor.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below. The knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel. --Sir. W. Scott. 6. Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent. Splint armor,a kind of ancient armor formed of thin plates of metal, usually overlapping each other and allowing the limbs to move freely. Splint bone (Anat.), one of the rudimentary, splintlike metacarpal or metatarsal bones on either side of the cannon bone in the limbs of the horse and allied animals. Splint coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
Splin"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Splintered; p. pr. & vb. n. Splintering.] [Cf. LG. splittern, splinteren. See Splint, n., Split.]1. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. --Prescott. 2. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. --Bp. Wren.
Split\ (spl[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Split (Splitted, R.); p. pr. & vb. n. Splitting.] [Probably of Scand. or Low german origin; cf. Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten, G. spleissen, MHG. spl[=i]zen. Cf. Splice, Splint, Splinter.]1. To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. --Dryden. 2. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. --Boyle. 3. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. [Colloq.] --South. 4. (Chem.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
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