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split   (TTS Sound)

The noun split has 11 senses

• split -- (extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back))


• split -- (a bottle containing half the usual amount)


• split -- (a promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded his split before they disbanded")


• split -- (a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log")


• rip, rent, snag, split, tear -- (an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings")


• Split -- (an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea)


• split -- (a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts)


• split -- ((tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame")


• split, stock split, split up -- (an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock")


• rent, rip, split -- (the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip")


• schism, split -- (division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy")

The verb split has 5 senses

• divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up -- (separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I")


• cleave, split, rive -- (separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone")


• separate, part, split up, split, break, break up -- (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up")


• separate, part, split -- (go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party")


• burst, split, break open -- (come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst")

The adj split has 2 senses

• disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split -- (having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group")


• split -- ((especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace")