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split

English

  1. 🔊 (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
    “we bought split logs for the fireplace”
  2. 🔊 having been divided
    “Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces”
  3. 🔊 extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
  4. 🔊 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”
  5. 🔊 (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”
  6. 🔊 a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
  7. 🔊 an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea
  8. 🔊 a lengthwise crack in wood
    “he inserted the wedge into a split in the log”
  9. 🔊 a promised or claimed share of loot or money
    “he demanded his split before they disbanded”
  10. 🔊 a bottle containing half the usual amount
  11. 🔊 division of a group into opposing factions
    “another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy”
  12. 🔊 the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
    “he gave the envelope a vigorous rip”
  13. 🔊 an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
    “there was a rip in his pants”
  14. 🔊 come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
    “The bubble burst”
  15. 🔊 separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
    “cleave the bone”
  16. 🔊 separate into parts or portions
    “divide the cake into three equal parts”
  17. 🔊 go one's own way
    “The friends separated after the party”
  18. 🔊 discontinue an association or relation
    “The business partners broke over a tax question”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 escisión split
  2. 🔊 partido split
  3. 🔊 partija split
  4. 🔊 dividir to split
  5. 🔊 ventear to split
  6. 🔊 frangir to split, to divide
  7. 🔊 escindir to split, cut, divide
  8. 🔊 hender to split, to cleave apart
  9. 🔊 división split, splitting, cleavage
  10. 🔊 rajar to split, to rip, to tear, to slit
  11. 🔊 compartir to split, to divide (in order to share)

Similar words

schism rent rip stock split split up rip rent snag tear burst break open cleave rive separate part separate part split up break break up divide split up separate dissever