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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"

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

... 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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