splitter
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See also: Splitter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (US): (file) - (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsplɪtə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsplɪtɚ/, [ˈsplɪɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]splitter (plural splitters)
- A person or a thing that splits.
- A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
- A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
- (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
- Hyponym: species-monger
- (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
- (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
- One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
- Coordinate term: cleaver
Synonyms
[edit]- (GUI): sash
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “one who prefers to split categories”): lumper
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “splitter”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “splitter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “splitter”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “splitter”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Verb
[edit]splitter
German
[edit]Verb
[edit]splitter
- inflection of splittern:
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Danish splitter- and German splitter- (inseparable in both languages).
Adverb
[edit]splitter
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]splitter m
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]splitter
References
[edit]- “splitter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Danish splitter- and German splitter- (used in compound form in both languages).
Adverb
[edit]splitter
References
[edit]- “splitter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Splitter (“splinter”).
Adverb
[edit]splitter (not comparable)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]splitter n
Declension
[edit]Declension of splitter
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | splitter | splitters |
definite | splittret | splittrets | |
plural | indefinite | splitter | splitters |
definite | splittren | splittrens |
Derived terms
[edit]- bombsplitter
- glassplitter
- granatsplitter
- splitterbomb
- splitterfri
- splitterskada
- splitterskydd
- splittersäker
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- splitter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- splitter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- splitter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- splitter in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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