Word Finder - splitting

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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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An instance where something splits.

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A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.

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The cleavage of a covalent bond.

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Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.

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Very rapid.

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They moved at a splitting pace.

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Severe.

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I have a splitting headache.

I'm tired and I have a splitting head ache.

He looked up, with a large grin splitting his face.

Now that's splitting hairs.

If you're serious about not splitting, you need him.

She heard Gabriel shout something that was lost in the roar of the ground splitting apart.

As my driver prophesied when I was plowing, they warmed me twice--once while I was splitting them, and again when they were on the fire, so that no fuel could give out more heat.

The Scyths had a method of divination with sticks, and the Enarees, who claimed to be soothsayers by grant of the goddess who had afflicted them, used another method by splitting bast fibres.

In the first case the thermal effect of 58.58 calories actually observed must be increased by 2d to allow for the heat absorbed in splitting off two gramme-atoms of carbon; in the second case the thermal effect of 96.96 must be increased by d as above.

The frui t is a pod or siliqua splitting by two valves from A "0 D FIG.

The fatty matter, however, it must be borne in mind, is the expression of dissimilation of the actual substance of the proteids of the tissues, not of the splitting up of proteids or other carbonaceous nourishment supplied to them.

Tripolar division in which the splitting of the loops has commenced.

This splitting up of the fats previously combined with albumin in the cell by the action of natural ferments - lipases - and the setting free of the fats under the influence of toxins represent the normal and the pathological process in the production of so-called fatty degeneration.

In this process, however, the entire operations of splitting and flattening are retained, and although the mechanical process is said to be in successful commercial operation, it has not as yet made itself felt as a formidable rival to hand-made sheet-glass.

The actual conveyance or coursing of the air from the intake to the working faces is effected by splitting or dividing the current at different points in its course, so as to carry it as directly as possible to the places where it is required.

To the oldtime belief that languages multiplied by splitting and colonizing, must be added the theory that languages were formerly more numerous, and that those of the Americans were formed by combining.

Minute rods or needles of rutile are also common in slates, and well-formed cubes of pyrites are often visible on the splitting faces.

Two men are employed at this operation - one splitting and the other dressing, performing their work in a sitting posture.

It is at present somewhat uncertain, therefore, in what cases actual splitting occurs.

Investigation has shown that the change is due to the splitting off of sulphuric acid during the process, and that green-coloured chromsulphuric acids are formed thus - ii?

These bobbins are then in general taken to the first spinning frame, and there the single strands receive their first twist, which rounds them, and prevents the compound fibre from splitting up and separating when, by the subsequent scouring operations, the gum is removed which presently binds them into one.

Some plants root so freely that they need only pegging down; but in most cases the arrest of the returning sap to form a callus, and ultimately young roots, must be brought about artificially, either by twisting the branch, by splitting it, by girding FIG.

Many of the free-growing soft-wooded plants may also be grown from cuttings of single joints of the young wood, where rapid increase is desired; and in the case of opposite-leaved plants two cuttings may often be made from one joint by splitting the stem longitudinally, each cutting consisting of a leaf and a perfect bud attached to half the thickness of the stem.

The Rhine in its course through Holland is merely the parent stream of several important branches, splitting up into Rhine and Waal, Rhine and Ysel, Crooked Rhine and Lek (which takes two-thirds of the waters), and at Utrecht into Old Rhine and Vecht, finally reaching the sea through the sluices at Katwijk as little more than a drainage canal.

In short, from Ar 3 to Ar t the excess substance ferrite or cementite, in hypoand hyper-eutectoid steels respectively, progressively crystallizes out as a network or skeleton within the austenite mothermetal, which thus progressively approaches the composition of hardenite, reaching it at Ar t, and there splitting up into ferrite and cementite interstratified as pearlite.

Here the black bat-like patches are the masses of pearlite plus proeutectoid cementite resulting from the splitting up of the primary austenite.

It divides its waters, splitting into many channels, leaving broad central islands; and as the width increases, and the depth during dry seasons diminishes, opportunities for fords become comparatively frequent.

Since Much Smaller Values Are Found For More Complex Molecules, We May Suppose That, In These Cases, The Energy Of Rotation Of A Polyatomic Molecule May Be Greater Than Its Energy Of Translation, Or Else That Heat Is Expended In Splitting Up Molecular Aggregates, And Increasing Energy Of Vibration.

The headache is described as splitting; delirium is of the busy type, like delirium tremens.

Considerable remains of its town walls, of large irregular, roughly rectangular blocks (the form is that of the natural splitting of the schistose sandstone), still exist, enclosing a circuit of about 11 m.

The pioneers of the jute industry, who did not understand this necessity, or rather who did not know how the woody and brittle character of the fibre could be remedied, were greatly perplexed by the difficulties they had to encounter, the fibre spinning badly into a hard, rough and hairy yarn owing to the splitting and breaking of the fibre.

In fact, a splitting appears to take place in the process of secretion somewhat resembling that which takes place in the formation of a toxin and anti-toxin.

There exist in the mud of marshes, rivers and cloacae, &c., however, other anaerobic bacteria which decompose cellulose, probably hydrolysing it first and then splitting the products into carbon dioxide and marsh gas.

Electric sparks give at first free sulphur and the trifluoride, the latter at a higher temperature splitting into the pentafluoride and phosphorus.

An important element in the story is the connexion of Adonis with the boar, which (according to one version) brings him into the world by splitting with his tusk the bark of the tree into which Smyrna was changed, and finally kills him.

The truxillic acids, C,8H1504, which result by the hydrolytic splitting of truxilline, C38H46N208, are phenyl derivatives of cyclo-butane.

This construction was further improved (I) by introducing a diaphragm between the two lenses; (2) by altering the distance between the two lenses; and (3) by splitting the lower lens into two lenses.

Alteration in the symmetrical arrangement as well as in the completeness and regularity of flowers has been traced to suppression or the non-development of parts, degeneration or imperfect formation, cohesion or union of parts of the same whorl, adhesion or union of the parts of different whorls, multiplication of parts, and deduplication (sometimes called chorisis) or splitting of parts.

The symmetry in the flower is evidently dimerous, and the abnormality in the androecium, where the four long stamens are opposite the posterior sepals, takes place by a splitting, at a very early stage of development, of a single outgrowth into two.

They are in addition powerful germicides, and by splitting up water may act as oxidizing agents.

The Council had been on the verge of splitting for years, severing the effectiveness of their ability to combat Darkyn's demons.

This pinching of the line may cause material abrasion, which could lead to splitting of the tubing.

We must be with the masses against the splitting and treacherous trade-union bureaucracy.

To become infectious, it has to rid itself of Gag by splitting these proteins into smaller ones, called capsid.

The effect is known as spin-spin coupling or spin-spin splitting.

I've got a splitting headache I'm going upstairs for a nap.

Mung dal is yellow split beans made by splitting green mung beans and discarding the green husk.

It is hilarious that an invented prohibition of splitting infinitives should have such an impact even today without people even knowing why.

Mixed in with side splitting laughter from the rest of us.

Many identify the problem as the splitting of the subject matter of A-level mathematics into six separately examined modules.

With a splitting headache they would reach the tunnel exit, gasp in the fresh air and usually vomit the black phlegm.