split
/splɪt/ verb, adjective, noun, proper noun
Forms splits splitting
- verb (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. “He has split his lip.”
- verb (intransitive) Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- verb (transitive) To share; to divide. “We split the money among three people.”
- verb (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave. “Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.”
- verb (intransitive, of a couple) To separate. “Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.”
- verb (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord. “Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.”
- verb (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- verb (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- adjective Divided. “Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.”
- adjective (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- adjective (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- adjective (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- adjective (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- adjective (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- noun A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- noun A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- noun A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- noun (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- noun (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- noun (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
Synonyms
cleave 23 skidoo beat it bug off remove egress bugger off book bounce buzz off chuck cut one's stick dash depart duck out exit get away get out go go away rip rent snag tear stock split split up schism divide separate dissever
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Etymology
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Middle Irish slis (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
- verb To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
- verb To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
- verb To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
Etymology [Probably of Scand. or Low german origin; cf. Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten, G. spleissen, MHG. splizen. Cf. Splice, Splint, Splinter.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “split”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details