split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: splĭt
ipa: /splɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: splits
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”).
Senses: glosses: A crack or longitudinal fissure.
glosses: A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
examples: text: The kernels split in shelling, known as splits, form a fifth grade of shelled Virginia peanuts.
ref: 1929, United States Tariff Commission, Agricultural products and provisions, page 1334:
glosses: A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
qualifier: leather manufacture
glosses: One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
topics: cheerleading
dance
dancing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: usually in the phrase "to do the splits"
glosses: 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.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
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glosses: A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
examples: text: He’s got a nasty split.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A split-finger fastball.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
glosses: A split shot or split stroke.
glosses: A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
glosses: 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.
glosses: A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
examples: In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
examples: text: [I]t would be a rare split in that it would be unlikely to result in an armchair tick for any birders, living or dead.
ref: 2017 June 23, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 1:
qualifier: systematics
glosses: The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
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word: almost split sequence
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word: backsplit
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word: bad-lad split
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word: box split
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word: Bulgarian split squat
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word: circuit split
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word: Devonshire split
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word: earsplitting
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word: fee splitting
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word: foot-strut split
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word: get one's wig split
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word: hair-splitting
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word: heart-splitting
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word: Heegaard splitting
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word: high-low split
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word: hypersplit
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word: let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
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word: lickety-split
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word: lot-cloth split
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word: make like a banana and split
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word: negative split
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word: non-split
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word: off-split
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word: offsplit
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word: Omaha high-low split
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word: oversplit
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word: phonemic split
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word: presplit
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word: quasisplit
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word: quickety split
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word: resplit
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word: reverse split
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word: share split
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word: sheep-split
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word: side-split
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word: side-splitting
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word: split 7
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word: split a gut
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word: split an infinitive
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word: split antigen
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word: split attraction model
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word: split bar
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word: split bathroom
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word: split brain
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word: split cameras
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word: split-complex number
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word: split decision
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word: split dynamometer
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word: split end
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word: split epimorphism
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word: split ergativity
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word: split-fingered fastball
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word: split-finger fastball
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word: split hairs
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word: split hand syndrome
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word: split head
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word: split horizon
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word: split infinitive
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word: split key
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word: Split Lake
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word: split leather
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word: split-level
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word: split level
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word: split lunch
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word: split monomorphism
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word: split-new
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word: split off
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word: split on a rock
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word: split one's sides
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word: split pea
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word: split personality
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word: split pin
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word: split pot
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word: splitproof
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word: split-quaternion
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word: split rail
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word: split rim
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word: split-ring
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word: split-ring resonator
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word: split screen
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word: split second
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word: split-second
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word: split shorts
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word: split shot
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word: split-shot
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word: split single
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word: split slab
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word: split-squad
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word: split squat
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word: split S
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word: split-S
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word: split stitch
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word: split stuff
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word: splitsville
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word: split switch
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word: split-system air conditioner
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word: splittable
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word: split-tail
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word: split tender
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word: splitter
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word: split test
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word: split the baby
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word: split the blanket
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word: split the breeze
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word: split the difference
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word: split the G
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word: split the house
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word: split the sheets
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word: split ticket
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word: split-time
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word: splitting field
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word: splittist
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word: split-toe
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word: splitty
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word: split up
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word: split-up
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word: split wheel
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word: split wine bottle
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word: stock split
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word: trap-bath split
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word: unsplit