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split
/splɪt/
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What does split mean?
verb
- To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To share; to divide.
More meanings (35)
verb
- (slang) To leave.
- To separate.
- To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- To factor into linear factors.
- To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- To burst out laughing.
- For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (dated, slang) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
adjective
- Divided.
- Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- (historical) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
noun
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- (slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
proper noun
- A port city in Croatia.
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IPA pronunciation
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The remainders, being cut into lengths and split open, were tossed into the pan, which began hissing and crackling over the fire.
The shock administered by the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the nut no longer held firm.
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Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.
Equally serious is the fact that a split is set up between conscious thought and attention and impulsive blind affection and desire.
The tree is cut down, the stem split up, and the crystalline scales of pure camphor are shaken out on to mats.