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Split   /splɪt/   Listen
verb
Split  v. t.  (past & past part. split, rare splitted; pres. part. splitting)  
1.
To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain or 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."
2.
To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. "A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water."
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.)
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.


Split  v. i.  (past & past part. split, rare splitted; pres. part. splitting)  
1.
To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
2.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. "The ship splits on the rock."
3.
To separate into parties or factions. (Colloq.)
4.
To burst with laughter. (Colloq.) "Each had a gravity would make you split."
5.
To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. (Slang)
6.
(Blackjack) To divide one hand of blackjack into two hands; a strategy allowed to a player when the first two cards dealt to the player have the same value.
7.
To leave; to depart (from a place or gathering); as, let's split. (Slang)
To split on a rock, to fail; to to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.


noun
Split  n.  
1.
A crack, rent, or longitudinal fissure.
2.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. (Colloq.)
3.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
4.
Specif: (Leather Manuf.), One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
5.
(Faro) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
6.
(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.
7.
Short for Split shot or split stroke.
8.
(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)
9.
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)
10.
(Finance) The substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as, a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
11.
(Blackjack) The division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player who chooses to split is obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created. See split (6), v.i.


adjective
Split  adj.  
1.
Divided; cleft.
2.
(Bot.) Divided deeply; cleft.
3.
(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, 10 3/16 is a split quotation.
(c)
(London Stock Exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
Split pease, hulled pease split for making soup, etc.
Split pin (Mach.), a pin with one end split so that it may be spread open to secure it in its place.
Split pulley, a parting pulley. See under Pulley.
Split ring, a ring with overlapped or interlocked ends which may be sprung apart so that objects, as keys, may be strung upon the ring or removed from it.
Split ticket, a ballot in which a voter votes for a portion of the candidates nominated by one party, candidates of other parties being substituted for those omitted. (U.S.)





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"Split" Quotes from Famous Books



... battalion split up. One company broke ranks and immediately swarmed through the village, looking curiously at everything, while the other marched on, passing out of sight before long in a cloud of dust. Major Kellner remained with the company that stayed ...
— The Belgians to the Front • Colonel James Fiske
... of the Coumelie became detached from the main summit, and dashed down in enormous blocks to the valley below. There they lie, the road passing between, in the wildest and most indescribable confusion. Here a heap piled one above another, there a mighty shoulder split in twain by a conical fragment which rests in the breach that it made; some towering above the road, others blocking the river below, a few isolated and many half-buried; but all combining to form as wild and wonderful a chaos as the eye could wish to gaze on, but which the pen must fail ...
— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough
... The chapters are split up into short discussions and descriptions, because longer divisions are apt to be tedious where ancient history is concerned. And the narrative of political movement is frequently interrupted by the introduction of new matter, in order to provide novelty ...
— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker
... chimney came up between our room and the other on the same side of the entry; each of our stove-pipes led into this chimney at points directly opposite, and by taking off the pipes, we could talk through, but there was danger of being overheard. To obviate this, we split a long lath off the side of our room, in such a way as to be able to take it down and put it up at pleasure. This we used for passing notes backward and forward through this concealed passage, and it became very useful when ...
— Daring and Suffering: - A History of the Great Railroad Adventure • William Pittenger
... a square of brown paper, in which a biscuit box had been wrapped, and marked squares off on it with a pencil. Then she produced some red and white high-bush cranberries for men. A cranberry split in two ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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