Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Middle Irish slis (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
Meanings
(not-comparable) Divided.
Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
(not-comparable, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
(not-comparable, of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
(not-comparable, of an order, qualifier:sale, usually) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
(historical, not-comparable, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.
(London, not-comparable) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Middle Irish slis (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
Meanings
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
It destroys the class system and exploitation; it heals the split in man's nature and the crippled, one-sided development of the individual. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
The kernels split in shelling, known as splits, form a fifth grade of shelled Virginia peanuts. 1929, United States Tariff Commission, Agricultural products and provisions, page 1334:
(qualifier:leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
(qualifier: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.
A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
(slang) A split-finger fastball.
He’s got a nasty split.
A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
A split shot or split stroke.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
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 (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
(qualifier:systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
[I]t would be a rare split in that it would be unlikely to result in an armchair tick for any birders, living or dead. 2017 June 14, Australian Birdlife, Carlton, Victoria, page 76, column 1:
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Compare Middle English ysplett (“split”, past participle of splatten (“to split”)), Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Middle Irish slis (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
Meanings
(ergative, of something solid, transitive) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
He has split his lip.
a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates. 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2013:
(intransitive) Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
(transitive) To share; to divide.
We split the money among three people.
Presently the 57-strong Class 378 fleet is split between the East London line and North London line, with 29 units allocated on the east side. 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
(intransitive, slang, transitive) To leave.
I had this Palm Springs gig set up for Joey and the bitch split. Least he ain't nowhere around. 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Leon (Bill Duke):
Carlo and Carmen Vidal / just had a child / A lovely girl with a crooked smile / Now they gotta split 'cause the Bronx ain't fit / For a kid to grow up in 1979, Machine, “There but For the Grace of God Go I”, in Machine:
Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
(intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
(intransitive, qualifier:acts on a polynomial, transitive) To factor into linear factors.
In the first case X²-2, the minimum polynomial of #92;sqrt 2, splits completely over #92;Q(#92;sqrt 2); in the second case we see that X³-2, the minimum polynomial of 3#92;sqrt 2, does not split completely over #92;Q(3#92;sqrt 2). 2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103:
(intransitive, of an algebraic structure, qualifier:acts on a polynomial; generally; generally, transitive) To factor into linear factors. ▸ To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
(intransitive, of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, qualifier:acts on a polynomial; particularly a short exact sequence; particularly a short exact sequence, transitive) To factor into linear factors. ▸ To contain an object which may be so expressed.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
The ship splits on the rock. c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
(intransitive) To burst out laughing.
(dated, intransitive, slang) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
"[…]I split, and tell all […]" 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
(especially) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.
(intransitive) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
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(intransitive: separate) · fr fendre (divide along a more or less straight line) · sv klyva (to break along the grain) · hu szétválik (intransitive: separate) · fr diviser (divide along a more or less straight line) · rar to‘i (divide along a more or less straight line) · mi tohi (divide along a more or less straight line) · cmn 裂 (divide along a more or less straight line) · qu laray (divide along a more or less straight line) · atv чарарга (divide along a more or less straight line) · ru раздели́ть (share out) · ban tebih (divide along a more or less straight line) · it spartire (share out) · la partior (divide along a more or less straight line) · el χωρίζω (intransitive: separate) · ko 나누다 (divide along a more or less straight line) · my ခွဲ (divide along a more or less straight line) · ja 分離する (share out) · gld дэлки- (divide along a more or less straight line) · ja 別れる (intransitive: separate) · alt јарар (divide along a more or less straight line) · sah хайыт (divide along a more or less straight line) · la dividō (divide along a more or less straight line) · fr couper (to break along the grain) · ttj -leremura (divide along a more or less straight line) · pt rachar fora (leave) · wa finde (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu hasít (divide along a more or less straight line) · wa si cwiter (intransitive: separate) · es partir (divide along a more or less straight line) · tet fota (divide along a more or less straight line) · az bölmək (share out) · eo dividi (divide along a more or less straight line) · ca dividir (divide along a more or less straight line) · grc χωρίζω (intransitive: separate) · ca dividir (share out) · he התחלק (share out) · fr se faire la malle (leave) · fr se barrer (leave) · es partirse (intransitive: separate) · la findō (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu szétrepeszt (divide along a more or less straight line) · rm fender (divide along a more or less straight line) · ro diviza (share out) · sv splittra (divide along a more or less straight line) · cmn 分裂 (divide along a more or less straight line) · sv klyva (divide along a more or less straight line) · rup spãntic (divide along a more or less straight line) · fr répartir (share out) · ltg škeļt (divide along a more or less straight line) · sv skiljas (intransitive: separate) · sa भिनत्ति (divide along a more or less straight line) · ja 切断する (share out) · tr yarılmak (to break along the grain) · grc σχίζω (divide along a more or less straight line) · bg разцепвам (divide along a more or less straight line) · it rompere (to break along the grain) · sga con·fodlai (share out) · sv lämna (leave) · hu szakít (intransitive: separate) · cmn 裂開 /裂开 (divide along a more or less straight line) · sv söndra (divide along a more or less straight line) · pl rozdzielać (share out) · rm divider (share out) · cs rozštěpit (divide along a more or less straight line) · qu puchqay (divide along a more or less straight line) · mi tuhatuha (share out) · hu lelécel (leave) · ja 切り離す (share out) · zdj upasuha (divide along a more or less straight line) · ca partir (divide along a more or less straight line) · pl rozejść się (intransitive: separate) · es hender (divide along a more or less straight line) · it dividere (divide along a more or less straight line) · sv dela (divide along a more or less straight line) · mi totoe (share out) · ja 分ける (share out) · sq ndaj (intransitive: separate) · it dividere (share out) · hu meglép (leave) · wa pårti (share out) · gl separar (intransitive: separate) · fr s'arracher (leave) · hu feloszt (share out) · mi matakahi (divide along a more or less straight line) · he עזב (leave) · uz yormoq (divide along a more or less straight line) · fa قسمیدن (divide along a more or less straight line) · fi jakaa (share out) · ru расщепля́ть (divide along a more or less straight line) · ro scinda (divide along a more or less straight line) · id belah (divide along a more or less straight line) · gl fender (divide along a more or less straight line) · bg разделям (intransitive: separate) · it tagliare (to break along the grain) · mi whakainati (share out) · eo fendi (divide along a more or less straight line) · vi chẻ (divide along a more or less straight line) · fr scinder (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu megosztozik (share out) · ty tohi (divide along a more or less straight line) · ca repartir (share out) · hu megszakítja a kapcsolatot (intransitive: separate) · mi ngawhā (to break along the grain) · kk жару (divide along a more or less straight line) · ro separa (intransitive: separate) · de spalten (divide along a more or less straight line) · fa جدایی افتادن (intransitive: separate) · pt cair fora (leave) · sq nda (divide along a more or less straight line) · kix ēmthàh (divide along a more or less straight line) · ru разделя́ться (intransitive: separate) · tr ayrılmak (intransitive: separate) · acw فَصَل (divide along a more or less straight line) · ja 割る (divide along a more or less straight line) · he חילק (divide along a more or less straight line) · grc μερίζω (share out) · ace plah (divide along a more or less straight line) · rup disic (divide along a more or less straight line) · fa چاکزدن (divide along a more or less straight line) · sv separera (intransitive: separate) · pt cindir (divide along a more or less straight line) · lv šķelt (divide along a more or less straight line) · rap ngahaa (divide along a more or less straight line) · mi tiritiri (share out) · ky жаруу (divide along a more or less straight line) · gl dividir (share out) · nl zich splitsen (to break along the grain) · la dispartio (share out) · hu osztozik (share out) · ms belah (divide along a more or less straight line) · la separo (intransitive: separate) · cs roztrhnout (divide along a more or less straight line) · la scindō (divide along a more or less straight line) · pl rozszczepiać (divide along a more or less straight line) · gl repartir (share out) · fa بشکلیدن (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu felhasít (divide along a more or less straight line) · ga scáin (divide along a more or less straight line) · el σχίζω (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu lelép (leave) · fr rompre (to break along the grain) · te చీలుచు (divide along a more or less straight line) · fr partager (share out) · pl dzielić (divide along a more or less straight line) · dsb kłojś (divide along a more or less straight line) · zea spliete (divide along a more or less straight line) · gl escindir (divide along a more or less straight line) · tr kırışmak (share out) · bg разделям (share out) · pt partir (divide along a more or less straight line) · ca escindir (divide along a more or less straight line) · fa گریختن (leave) · io fendar (divide along a more or less straight line) · ro spinteca (divide along a more or less straight line) · ga roinn (share out) · it spezzare (to break along the grain) · fr diviser (share out) · jv nyigar (divide along a more or less straight line) · el χωρίζω (share out) · ota یارمق (divide along a more or less straight line) · it fendere (divide along a more or less straight line) · ang clēofan (divide along a more or less straight line) · haw kōhi (divide along a more or less straight line) · sv flytta isär (intransitive: separate) · fi halkaista (divide along a more or less straight line) · ru расходи́ться (intransitive: separate) · ru расщепи́ть (divide along a more or less straight line) · acw قَسَّم (divide along a more or less straight line) · fa جدایی انداختن (share out) · ru подели́ть (share out) · ka გაპობა (divide along a more or less straight line) · ca separar (intransitive: separate) · de abhauen (leave) · is klofna (divide along a more or less straight line) · rm reparter (share out) · sga dluigid (divide along a more or less straight line) · fr séparer (intransitive: separate) · ban belah (divide along a more or less straight line) · fi lohkaista (divide along a more or less straight line) · pt repartir (share out) · mi wehe (divide along a more or less straight line) · de verteilen (share out) · es hendir (divide along a more or less straight line) · evn дэлки- (divide along a more or less straight line) · ru разойти́сь (intransitive: separate) · fi haljeta (divide along a more or less straight line) · or ଫାଟିବା (divide along a more or less straight line) · pl dzielić (share out) · ga deighil (divide along a more or less straight line) · ro despica (divide along a more or less straight line) · ja 分断する (share out) · acw قَسَم (divide along a more or less straight line) · bg напускам (leave) · ga scoilt (to break along the grain) · ga scar (intransitive: separate) · pt separar-se (intransitive: separate) · gl dividir (divide along a more or less straight line) · it separare (intransitive: separate) · ro repartiza (share out) · sv dela (share out) · sq nda (leave) · es partir (leave) · fr se tirer (leave) · fa به چاک زدن (leave) · su beulah (divide along a more or less straight line) · txb kaut- (divide along a more or less straight line) · ro diviza (divide along a more or less straight line) · de sich spalten (to break along the grain) · he פיצל (divide along a more or less straight line) · vi xẻ (divide along a more or less straight line) · he נפרד (intransitive: separate) · la fatiscō (to break along the grain) · yi שפּאַלטן (divide along a more or less straight line) · la divido (share out) · es escindir (divide along a more or less straight line) · nl verdelen (share out) · ru раздели́ться (intransitive: separate) · rm divider (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu elhasít (divide along a more or less straight line) · fa شکافتن (to break along the grain) · cs rozdělit (share out) · ka გახლეჩა (divide along a more or less straight line) · vi tách (intransitive: separate) · la dispartior (share out) · gl partir (divide along a more or less straight line) · it spaccare (divide along a more or less straight line) · bg цепя (divide along a more or less straight line) · pt dividir (divide along a more or less straight line) · ar قَسَمَ (divide along a more or less straight line) · mi mātītore (divide along a more or less straight line) · is skiljast að (intransitive: separate) · cs rozdělit (divide along a more or less straight line) · qu ch'iqtay (divide along a more or less straight line) · izh halettaa (divide along a more or less straight line) · ga scoilt (divide along a more or less straight line) · el σπάω (leave) · egy Q3:O34-N37:Z9-Y1 (share out) · hu különválik (intransitive: separate) · nl uiteengaan (intransitive: separate) · he חילק (share out) · cs rozdělit (intransitive: separate) · cy hollti (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu szétoszt (share out) · fr casser (to break along the grain) · rm sfender (divide along a more or less straight line) · mi wehe (leave) · fa چاکیدن (divide along a more or less straight line) · hu hasad (to break along the grain) · pt terminar (intransitive: separate) · wa cwiter (leave) · hu megoszt (share out) · as ফাল (divide along a more or less straight line) · tr bölüşmek (share out)