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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

... 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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