Category:Split

Split (splît), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Split (splitted, r.); p. pr. & vb. N. Splitting.] Etym: [probably of scand. or low german origin; cf. Dan. splitte, lg. splitten, od. splitten, spletten, d. splijten, g. Spleissen, mhg. splizen. Cf. Splice, splint, splinter.]

1. To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; To divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; As, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a Sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.

2. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed Water. Boyle.

3. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to Separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. [colloq.] South.

4. (chem.)

Defn: to divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; As, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, To make distinctions of useless nicety.

Split Split, v. i.

1. To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the Freezing of water in them.

2. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. The ship splits on the rock. Shak.

3. To separate into parties or factions. [colloq.]

4. To burst with laughter. [colloq.] Each had a gravity would make you split. Pope.

5. To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. [slang] Thackeray. To split on a rock, to err fatally; to have the hopes and Designs frustrated.

Split Split, n.

Defn: a crack, or longitudinl fissure.

2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. [colloq.]

3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; A fragment.

4. Specif (leather manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by Dividing it into two or more thicknesses.

5. (faro)

Defn: a division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on Which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

Split Split, a.

1. Divided; cleft.

2. (bot.)

Defn: divided deeply; cleft. Split pease, hulled pease split for Making soup, etc. -- split pin (mach.), a pin with one end split so that it may be Spread open to secure it in its place. -- split pulley, a parting pulley. See under pulley. -- split ring, a ring with overlapped or interlocked ends which may Be sprung apart so that objects, as keys, may be strung upon the ring Or removed from it. -- split ticket, a ballot containing the names of only a portion of The candidates regularly nominated by one party, other names being Substituted for those omitted. [u.s.]