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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



... the wrangling press take order of battle. Observe the clamorous throng split into two rival companies, each of them captained by Love, with Hope and Shame on one side, and Fear and Mistrust upon the other. These six are the most notable; the rest you shall discover for yourselves, ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... scene of his exploit, rose early, rode fast, and by noon was plainly in the selvage of the great woods. The country was split into bleak ravines, a pell-mell of rocks and boulders, and a sturdy crop of black pines between them. An overgrowth of brambles and briony ran riot over all. Prosper rode up a dry river-bed, keeping steadily west, so far as it would serve him; found himself quagged ere a ...
— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett
... the stars that there was a rich ventura for all of this goodly house, so she followed the bidding of the stars and came to declare it. O blessed lady (I defile thy dead corse), your husband is at Granada, fighting with King Ferdinand against the wild Corahai! (May an evil ball smite him and split his head!) Within three months he shall return with twenty captive Moors, round the neck of each a chain of gold. (God grant that when he enter the house a beam may fall upon him and crush him!) And within nine months after his return ...
— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas
... way. She neither returned his smile nor changed her expression, unchildlike in its stolidity. Her hands and jaw never stopped as she worked on the lengths of fibrous plant her mother had placed before her. The child split them with a small tool and removed a pod of some kind. This was peeled—partially by scraping with a different tool, and partially by working between her teeth. It took long minutes to remove the tough rind; the results seemed scarcely worth ...
— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison
... witnessed this conflict, all the more terrible because of the theater in which it was fought. The batteries and the riflemen alike were frequently hidden by the thickets. The great banks of smoke hung low, only to be split apart incessantly by the flashes of fire from the big guns. But the bullets were more dangerous than the cannon balls and shells. They whistled and shrieked ...
— The Shades of the Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler


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