Split
Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; -- usually in pl.
Any of the dents of a reed.
Any of the air currents in a mine formed by dividing a larger current.
Short for Split shot or stroke.
The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind.
A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; -- so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass.
Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; -- said of an order, sale, etc.
Of quotations, given in sixteenth, quotations in eighths being regular; as, 10/ is a split quotation.
Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
of Split
To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
To separate into parties or factions.
To burst with laughter.
To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
A crack, or longitudinal fissure.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
Divided; cleft.
Divided deeply; cleft.
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Split Quotations
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
Paul McCartney
Because in a split second, it's gone.
Ayrton Senna
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.
Raymond Chandler
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck
The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
Loretta Young
I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
John Cleese
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Stephen Sondheim
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Bertolt Brecht
My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.
Chris LeDoux
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Adolf Hitler
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Tim Berners-Lee
I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.
George Lopez
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.
Ron Wood
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg
All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.
John Prescott
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques Barzun
I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.
John Lee Hooker
My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.
Pierce Brosnan
It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
Zooey Deschanel
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
Andy Goldsworthy
We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.
Zakk Wylde
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
Eric Alterman
Music is split up now into little pockets.
Chris Martin
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob August Riis
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Alvar Aalto
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Jacques Lacan
Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.
Michael Schenker
The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
Michael K. Simpson
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Split Translations
split in Afrikaans is bars
split in Danish is briste, spalte
split in Dutch is kloven, doorklieven, klieven, splijten
split in French is fendis, fendues, fendit, fendus, fendez, fendue
split in German is aufteilen, aufteilen, geteilt, aufgeteilt, teilen
split in Spanish is separarse, partir
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