Word Finder - split

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A crack or longitudinal fissure.

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A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.

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A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

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(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.

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(cheerleading, 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.

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A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targetted in a microcycle.

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A split-finger fastball.

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He’s got a nasty split.

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A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.

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A split shot or split stroke.

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A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.

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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 gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.

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A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.

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The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.

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In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32

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The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.

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A tear resulting from tensile stresses.

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A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

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A recording containing songs by multiple artists.

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Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.

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He has split his lip.

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• cleave

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Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.

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To share; to divide.

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We split the money among three people.

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To leave.

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Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.

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(of a couple) To separate.

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Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.

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• break up
• split up

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To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.

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Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.

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(acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.

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To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.

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To burst out laughing.

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To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.

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In athletics (especially baseball), for both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another game.

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Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.

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To vote for candidates of opposite parties.

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Divided.

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Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.

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(of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.

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(of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.

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(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.

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(of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.

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(London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.

Remember now, split it fairly.

Want to split the heavens.

We saw an amazing meteor that split in two.

A crack split the street, swallowing her father-in-law and her little girl.

The wood was split and stacked beside the house, waiting for winter.

She waited until he split a piece of wood and then walked over to pick it up.

They were headed to Tennessee but we heard something bad happened, split the government at the top level.

In the more highly developed lorms, as already indicated, the leaf-trace is split up into a number of strands which leave the base and sides of the leaf-gap independently.

She glanced up sharply and let her gaze rest on his split lip.

The total number of shares will have the same market value immediately after the reverse split as before.

Obviously Katie didn't know they had split up.

When you and Alex were having problems, I think he hoped you would split up.

I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors.

It's ready, your honor; you can split a Frenchman in half with it!

I can't forget that she said she loved Alex and hoped we would split up.

If we don't act, the country will be split by civil war.

They split up the wood, pressed it down on the fire, blew at it with their mouths, and fanned it with the skirts of their greatcoats, making the flames hiss and crackle.

I got some guys in my 'hood pissed at me, so I decided to split.

The side zipper of her shorts was split open, revealing the white of her thigh.

He split us up, in the dark, until we were so scared we'd do anything to get out of there.

I vote the Council split.

We should split, he forced himself to say.

The Council split on sanctioning me, and those whose support Jetr swayed for me are sending their armies to battle.

The ol' boys at the station are about split down the middle but we're not privy to Byrne's lifestyle and I suppose that's the key.

I'm in a hurry to split.

Talia's head was split open, her lifeless eyes staring at the sky.

The spores differ from those of ferns in their outer coat (exospore) being split up into four club-shaped hygroscopic threads (elaters) which are curled when moist, but become straightened when dry.

There is also a risk that woodwork near the pipes may warp and split.

The heartwood varies in colour from dark brown to pale yellowishbrown; hard, close-grained, and little liable to split accidentally, it is, for a hard wood, easy to work.

The main timbers had split and were repaired by stitching wooden laths over the damage.

Red split lentils are the supermarket's best-selling wholefood followed by brown whole grain rice and couscous.

When they split, Jesse Michaels (singer) went onto join Common Ride I believe I presume your into all the older lookout!

A second LP, Burger Habit, recorded without Jhelisa, disappeared without a trace and the band split.

I live in a split level maisonette with a basement flat below.

There were many indications that the French centrists would repeat the course of the Italian maximalists, that is, split with us.

Eventually I was considered fit enough to attempt split skin grafting.

Fifteen new nations formed as the Soviet Union dissolved; Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Sudan into North Sudan and South Sudan.

I always wondered if that was why Mom and Dad split up for a while - because Mom was used to a different lifestyle and social circle.

You have to split this in a nice democratic fashion.

It's been a year since I found out you were married and we split!

There's a saying, better to serve in Hell than get your head split open somewhere else.

I don't know.  He pulled the Council together after we split.

So how do you split?

His face split into a large smile, and he waved the sword in the air.

The ground rumbled more violently as the sun rose, until it began to split open.

Rissa blocked the blow of the second and dropped, rolling as an axe split the ground near her head.

Beside the tank was a pile of split wood about three feet high and six feet long.

In the split second before the cat ducked under the bed, Jessi was aware of the man's size and intense gaze.

His gaze darkened, and Xander knew his long-time ally was thinking of their shared history from the time before the Schism that split the mortal and immortal worlds apart.

The controversy that ensued made a split in the nonjuring communion.