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splitting

adjective

1 splitting

Resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree.

synonyms: rending, ripping.

Roget 328: brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting etc. v.; lacerable, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: abscission, acute, amputation, apportionment, budgeting, butchering, catalysis, catalyst, chopping, cleavage, cutting, cutting the pie, decay, dialysis, dichotomy, dissociation, dividing, division, divvy, drastic ... show more.

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split

noun

1 split

Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back).

Roget 732: failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen etc. 158 [Lat.]; labor in vain etc. (inutility) 645; ... show more

Polish: szpagat

2 split

A bottle containing half the usual amount.

Dutch: halfje

3 split

A promised or claimed share of loot or money.

4 split

A lengthwise crack in wood.

Dutch: torn

5 split

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.

synonyms: rent, rip, snag, tear.

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction; cataclasm; inconnection; abstraction, abstractedness; ... show more

Polish: rozdarcie, przedarcie

6 Split

An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea.

7 split

A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts.

8 split

tenpin bowling A divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl.

9 split

An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity:
— They announced a two-for-one split of the common stock.

synonyms: split up, stock split.

Polish: split

10 split

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.

synonyms: rent, rip.

11 split

Division of a group into opposing factions.

synonym: schism.

Roget 713: disagreement etc. 24; discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling etc. v.; ... show more

verb

1 split

Separate into parts or portions.

synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split up.

Roget 840: amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; titillate, raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, ... show more

Roget 91: bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize.    go halves, divide with.    separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, ... show more

Roget 713: be discordant etc. adj.; disagree, come amiss etc. 24; clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, ... show more

Dutch: afsnijden, delen, verdelen

2 split

Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.

synonyms: cleave, rive.

3 split

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways:
— My friend and I split up.

synonyms: break, break up, part, separate, split up.

Roget 44: be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.    disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; ... show more

Roget 328: be brittle etc. adj.; live in a glass house.    break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, ... show more

Roget 529: disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, ... show more

4 split

Go one's own way; move apart.

synonyms: part, separate.

Dutch: scheiden, ontbinden, splitsen

5 split

Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.

synonyms: break open, burst.

Dutch: barsten, knallen, uiteenspatten, uiteenspringen, uitspatten

adjective

1 split

Having been divided; having the unity destroyed:
— A split group.

synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented.

2 split

especially of wood Cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain.


Moby thesaurus: ablate, abrupt, absquatulate, abysm, abyss, aggravated, agree to disagree, alienate, alienation, allot, amputate, aperture, apportion, arroyo, assessable stock, atomize, authorized capital stock, ax, be in stitches, beat it ... show more.

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