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Split

verb

(past & past part. split, rare splitted; pres. part. splitting)

1.

Separate into parts or portions. Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split up. "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" Antonym: unite.

2.

Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument. Synonyms: cleave, rive.

3.

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways. Synonyms: break, break up, part, separate, split up. "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" , "My friend and I split up"

4.

Go one's own way; move apart. Synonyms: part, separate.

5.

Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure. Synonyms: break open, burst.

noun

1.

Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back).

2.

A bottle containing half the usual amount.

3.

A promised or claimed share of loot or money.

4.

A lengthwise crack in wood.

5.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart. Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, tear. "She had snags in her stockings"

6.

An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea.

7.

A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts.

8.

(tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl.

9.

An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity. Synonyms: split up, stock split.

10.

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something. Synonyms: rent, rip.

11.

Division of a group into opposing factions. Synonym: schism.

adjective

1.

Having been divided; having the unity destroyed. Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented. "A league of disunited nations" , "A fragmented coalition" , "A split group"

2.

(especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain.

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"Split" Quotes from Famous Books

... swayed me? I felt myself divested of the power to will contrary to the motives that determined me to seek his presence. My mind seemed to be split into separate parts, and these parts to have entered into furious and implacable contention. These tumults gradually subsided. The reasons why I should confide in that interposition which had hitherto defended me; in those tokens of compunction which this letter contained; in the efficacy of ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

... done. I defy you to prove it's a Story! How are you getting on with my portrait? I like you very well, Mr. Artist; but if you have been taking advantage of my talking to shirk your work, as sure as you're alive I'll split upon you to ...

— After Dark • Wilkie Collins

... twenty-seven degrees from intercept. This turned out to be 85 deg. North Latitude on the other side of the Pole. This left him at most thirty seconds to decide whether or not to intercept a track crossing the Pole. And if several tracks were present, he had to split that time among them. If too many tracks appeared, he would have to turn over portions of the sky to his assistants, and let them make the decisions about launching. This would happen only if he felt an attack was in ...

— Pushbutton War • Joseph P. Martino

... Mademoiselle. Mademoiselle was a good Catholic, and very clear in her own mind, but what she left in Lily's brain was a confused conviction that every person was two persons, a body and a soul. Death was simply a split-up, then. One part of you, the part that bathed every morning and had its toe-nails cut, and went to dancing school in a white frock and thin black silk stockings and carriage boots over pumps, that part was buried and would only came up again at the Resurrection. But ...

— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... mighty slow; but going back a good deal of the way was uphill, and then all his imperfections came out plain, and I couldn't help studying him. If he had been a horse I should have said he was spavined and foundered, with split frogs and tonsilitis; but as he was a man, it struck me that he must have had several different kinds of rheumatism and been sent to Buxton to have them cured, but not taking the baths properly, or drinking the water at times ...

— Pomona's Travels - A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former - Handmaiden • Frank R. Stockton

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