split
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: splĭt
ipa: /splɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: splits
form: splitting
form: split
form: split
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: examples: text: He has split his lip.
text: a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
text: The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates.
ref: 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2013:
synonyms: cleave
glosses: To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
raw_tags: of something solid
qualifier: particularly wood
glosses: To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
raw_tags: of something solid
examples: text: We split the money among three people.
text: Presently the 57-strong Class 378 fleet is split between the East London line and North London line, with 29 units allocated on the east side.
ref: 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
glosses: To share; to divide.
examples: text: Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
synonyms: word: beat it
word: bug off
word: remove
word: bugger off
word: book
word: bounce
word: buzz off
word: chuck
word: cut one's stick
word: dash
word: depart
word: duck out
word: exit
word: get away
word: get out
word: go
word: go away
word: go out
word: GTFO
word: leave
word: make tracks
word: move on
word: namous
word: part
word: piss off
word: pull up stakes
word: put out
word: start
word: start out
word: set forth
word: set off
word: set out
word: run along
word: sling one's hook
word: split
word: take off
word: take leave
word: take one's leave
word: take wing
word: quit
glosses: To leave.
examples: text: Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
synonyms: break up
split up
glosses: To separate.
raw_tags: of a couple
examples: text: Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
glosses: To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
examples: text: In the first case X²-2, the minimum polynomial of #92;sqrt 2, splits completely over #92;Q(#92;sqrt 2); in the second case we see that X³-2, the minimum polynomial of 3#92;sqrt 2, does not split completely over #92;Q(3#92;sqrt 2).
ref: 2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: acts on a polynomial
glosses: To factor into linear factors.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: acts on a polynomial; generally; generally
glosses: To factor into linear factors.
To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
raw_tags: of an algebraic structure
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: acts on a polynomial; particularly a short exact sequence; particularly a short exact sequence
glosses: To factor into linear factors.
To contain an object which may be so expressed.
raw_tags: of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures
examples: text: The ship splits on the rock.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
examples: ref: 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
glosses: To burst out laughing.
examples: text: "[…]I split, and tell all […]"
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
examples: text: Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To vote for candidates of opposite parties.