English Explanatory Dictionary

split

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  2. To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  3. To share; to divide.
  4. To leave.
  5. To separate.
  6. To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
  7. To factor into linear factors.
  8. To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
  9. To contain an object which may be so expressed.
  10. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
  11. To burst out laughing.
  12. To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
adj
  1. Divided.
  2. Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
  3. Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
  4. Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
  5. Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
  6. Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
noun
  1. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
  2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
  3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
  4. One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
  5. 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.
  6. A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
  7. A split-finger fastball.
  8. A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
  9. A split shot or split stroke.
  10. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
  11. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
  12. A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
name
  1. A port city in Croatia.

Pronunciation

splĭt /splɪt/ en-us-split.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-split.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Split.wav

Word forms

split splits splitting

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”).

Synonyms

cleave beat it bug off remove bugger off book bounce buzz off chuck cut one's stick dash depart duck out exit get away get out go go away go out GTFO leave make tracks move on namous part piss off pull up stakes put out start start out set forth set off set out run along sling one's hook split take off take leave take one's leave take wing quit break up split up cleft cloven divided sundered

Antonyms

manifold

Related words

divide divisible separate separation

Derived words

7-10 split almost split sequence backsplit bad-lad split banana split box split Bulgarian split squat circuit split defence-splitting Devonshire split earsplitting fee splitting foot-strut split get one's wig split hairsplit hair-splittery hair-splitting heart-splitting Heegaard splitting high-low split hypersplit let the door hit you where the good Lord split you lickety-split lot-cloth split make like a banana and split missplit negative split netsplit non-split offsplit off-split Omaha high-low split oversplit phonemic split positive split presplit quasisplit quickety split resplit reverse split share split sheep-split sidesplit side-split side-splitting split 7 split a gut split an infinitive split antigen split attraction model split bar split bathroom splitboard split brain split cameras split-complex number split decision split dynamometer split end split epimorphism

Translations

Acehnese: plah Albanian: nda Northern Altai: чарарга Southern Altai: јарар Arabic: قَسَمَ Arabic: قَسَم Arabic: قَسَّم Arabic: فَصَل Aromanian: disic Aromanian: spãntic Assamese: ফাল Balinese: tebih Balinese: belah Bulgarian: цепя Bulgarian: разцепвам Burmese: ခွဲ Catalan: partir Catalan: dividir Catalan: escindir Chinese Mandarin: 裂開 /裂开 Chinese Mandarin: 分裂 Chinese Mandarin: 裂 Ngazidja Comorian: upasuha Czech: rozštěpit Czech: rozdělit Czech: roztrhnout Dutch: splitsen Dutch: opsplitsen Esperanto: fendi Esperanto: dividi Evenki: дэлки- Finnish: halkaista Finnish: haljeta Finnish: lohkaista French: fendre French: diviser French: scinder Galician: partir Galician: dividir Galician: escindir Georgian: გაპობა Georgian: გახლეჩა German: spalten Greek: σχίζω Ancient Greek: σχίζω Hawaiian: kōhi Hebrew: פיצל Hebrew: חילק Hindi: चीरना Hungarian: hasít Hungarian: elhasít Hungarian: széthasít Hungarian: felhasít Hungarian: szétrepeszt Icelandic: klofna Ido: fendar Indonesian: belah Ingrian: halettaa Irish: scoilt Irish: deighil Irish: scáin Old Irish: dluigid Italian: fendere Italian: dividere Italian: scindere Italian: spaccare Japanese: 割る Javanese: nyigar Kazakh: жару Korean: 분열하다 Korean: 나누다 Kyrgyz: жаруу
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