split

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

c. 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten, from Proto-Germanic *splītanan (compare Frisian/Danish splitte, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plei- 'to split, splice' (compare Old English speld 'splinter', Old High German spaltan 'to split', Old Irish sliss 'splinter', Latin spolium 'stripped hide', Lithuanian spaliai 'flax shives', Old Church Slavonic rasplatiti 'to cleave, split', Ancient Greek aspalon 'skin, hide', spólas 'flayed skin', Sanskrit sphaṭati 'it bursts').

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[edit] Adjective

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split (not comparable)

  1. See split (verb).
  2. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
  3. Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.

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split (plural splits)

  1. (gymnastics, usually in the phrase “to do the splits”) The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind.
  2. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
    He’s got a nasty split.
  3. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
  4. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
  5. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th (US) gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
  6. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
  7. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
    In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
  8. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.

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acrobatic feat
baseball pitch
see specific entry
bowling
a dessert or confection
a unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits
a bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters of fluid
a tear resulting from tensile stresses

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split (third-person singular simple present splits, present participle splitting, simple past and past participle split)

  1. (transitive, ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
    He has split his lip.
  2. (transitive) To share; to divide.
    We split the money among three people
  3. (slang) To leave.
    Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
  4. to separate or break up.
    Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
    Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
    • 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, The Guardian:
      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.
  5. Simple past tense and past participle of split.

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[edit] Translations

divide along a more or less straight line
share out
leave
separate
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[edit] Verb

split

  1. imperative of splitte

[edit] Swedish

split (“side split”)
spagat (“front split”)

[edit] Noun

split n,c

  1. discord, strife, dissension
    Det blir avunden och splitet, som blir Sveriges fördärv.
    It is the envy and the strife, that will be Sweden's demise.
  2. a split (of shares in a company)
  3. a side split, a straddle split (in gymnastics)

[edit] Declension

Declension of split 1
uncountable uncountable
Neuter indefinite definite
nominative split splitet
genitive splits splitets
Declension of split 2, 3
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative split spliten splitar splitarna
genitive splits splitens splitars splitarnas
Declension of split 2, 3
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative split splitten splittar splittarna
genitive splits splittens splittars splittarnas

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