Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Split   /splɪt/   Listen
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.



Related searches:
split decision
split down
split end
split infinitive
split personality
split rail
split run
split second
split shift
split ticket
split up
split-brain technique
split-half correlation
split-pea
split-pea soup
banana split
lickety split
reverse split
reverse stock split
splitter
stock split


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Split" Quotes from Famous Books



... are doomed to death!" Turpin The Archbishop heard him; lived no man on earth He hated more than Corsablis; he pricks His horse with both his spurs of purest gold, And 'gainst him rushes with tremendous force. The shield and hauberk split; and with a stroke Of the long lance into his body driven, Corsablis lifeless drops across the path; Him, though a corpse, Turpin addresses thus: "Thou, coward Pagan, thou hast lied! Great Carl My lord, was ...
— La Chanson de Roland • Lon Gautier
... ordinarily the poplar, which grow on the banks of the water. It is a white wood, soft and binding. The pettyaugres might be made of other wood, be cause such are to be had pretty large; but either too heavy for pettyaugres, or too apt to split. ...
— History of Louisisana • Le Page Du Pratz
... quart of split peas, or Lima beans, which are better; put them in three quarts of very soft water with three onions chopped up, pepper and salt; boil them two hours; mash them well and pass them through a sieve; return the liquid into ...
— The Virginia Housewife • Mary Randolph
... of the mouth are well filled with tin, and put into ink for three days, no discoloration of the tooth (when split open) can be seen." (W. ...
— Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth • Henry L. Ambler
... a good deal of time after the bathing and mending and re-arranging were all done. The axle of the phaeton had been split, and must be temporarily patched up and banded. There was nothing for Sylvie to do but to sit quietly there in the old-fashioned, dimity-covered easy-chair which they gave her by the front window, and wait. Meanwhile, she ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org