What is split?

More definitions of "split":

• (adj): (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain.
  Example: "We bought split logs for the fireplace"

• (noun): (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl.
  Example: "He was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame"

• (noun): An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.
  Synonyms: rip, rent, snag, tear

• (noun): A bottle containing half the usual amount.

• (verb): Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
  Example: "My friend and I split up"
  Synonyms: separate, part, split up, break, break up

• (adj): Having been divided; having the unity destroyed.
  Example: "A split group"
  Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented

• (adj): Broken or burst apart longitudinally.
  Example: "After the thunderstorm we found a tree with a split trunk"; "they tore big juicy chunks from the heart of the split watermelon"

• (noun): The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.
  Synonyms: rent, rip

• (verb): Separate into parts or portions.
  Synonyms: divide, split up, separate, dissever, carve up

• (noun): Extending the legs at right angles to the trunks (one in front and the other in back).

• (verb): Break open or apart suddenly.
  Synonyms: burst, break open

• (noun): Division of a group into opposing factions.
  Synonyms: schism

• (noun): An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea.

• (noun): A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts.

• (noun): A promised or claimed share of loot or money.
  Example: "He demanded his split before they disbanded"

• (noun): A lengthwise crack in wood.
  Example: "He inserted the wedge into a split in the log"

• (verb): Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
  Synonyms: cleave, rive

• (adj): Having a long rip or tear.
  Example: "A split lip"
  Synonyms: cut

• (adj): Being divided or separated.
  Example: "Split between love and hate"

• (noun): An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity.
  Example: "They announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"
  Synonyms: stock split, split up

Famous quotes containing the word split:

“Let my hands find such symbols, that can be
Unnoticed in the casual light of day,
Lying in wait for half a century
To split chance lives across, that had not dreamed
Such coasts had echoed, or such seabirds screamed.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)