Fork and Split

noun

• Cutlery used for serving and eating food.
• The act of branching out or dividing into branches.
  • synonyms: branching, ramification, forking
• The region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches.
  • usage: "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree"
  • synonyms: crotch
• An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs.
• The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk.
  • synonyms: crotch

verb

• Lift with a pitchfork.
  • usage: "pitchfork hay"
  • synonyms: pitchfork
• Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: branch, ramify, furcate, separate
• Shape like a fork.
  • usage: "She forked her fingers"

• (v.i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree or a stream forks.
• (n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
• (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up or pitching anything.
• (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree or a road.
• (v.i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.
• (n.) The gibbet.
• (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
• (v.t.) To raise or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

noun

• Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back. )
• A bottle containing half the usual amount.
• A promised or claimed share of loot or money.
  • usage: "he demanded his split before they disbanded"
• A lengthwise crack in wood.
  • usage: "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"
• An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.
  • usage: "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
  • synonyms: rip, rent, snag, tear
• An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea.
• A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts.
• Tenpin bowling. ( a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl)
  • usage: "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame"
• An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity.
  • usage: "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"
  • synonyms: stock split, split up
• The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.
  • usage: "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
  • synonyms: rent, rip
• Division of a group into opposing factions.
  • usage: "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"
  • synonyms: schism

verb

• Separate into parts or portions.
  • usage: "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
  • synonyms: divide, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
• Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
  • usage: "cleave the bone"
  • synonyms: cleave, rive
• Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
  • usage: "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
  • synonyms: separate, part, split up, break, break up
• Go one's own way; move apart.
  • usage: "The friends separated after the party"
  • synonyms: separate, part
• Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.
  • usage: "The bubble burst"
  • synonyms: burst, break open

adjective

• Having been divided; having the unity destroyed.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented
• Especially of wood. ( cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain)
  • usage: "we bought split logs for the fireplace"

• (n.) Any of the air currents in a mine formed by dividing a larger current.
• (n.) A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; -- so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass.
• (n.) The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind.
• (n.) Short for Split shot or stroke.
• (a.) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
• (a.) Of quotations, given in sixteenth, quotations in eighths being regular; as, 10/ is a split quotation.
• (a.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; -- said of an order, sale, etc.
• (n.) Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; -- usually in pl.
• (n.) Any of the dents of a reed.
• (v.t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
• (a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
• (v.i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
• (n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
• (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Split.
• (v.i.) To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
• (v.i.) To burst with laughter.
• (n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
• (v.t.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
• (n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
• (v.t.) To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, especially 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.
• (n.) A piece that is split off or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
• (v.i.) To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
• (v.i.) To separate into parties or factions.
• (n.) A crack or longitudinal fissure.
• (v.i.) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
• (v.t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
• (n.) the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
• (a.) Divided; cleft.

When a company increases the number of shares it has outstanding. In a two-for-one' Split', each share is split into two. The investor's percentage of equity in the company remains the same. So, if you had 100 shares valued at $50, each, after the split you would have 200 shares valued at $25 each. Companies often split their stock when the price gets too high. There are also reverse splits, when companies decrease the number of shares outstanding.