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split

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"
  • 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"
  • The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.
    • usage: "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
  • Division of a group into opposing factions.
    • usage: "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"

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"
  • Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
    • usage: "cleave the bone"
  • 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"
  • Go one's own way; move apart.
    • usage: "The friends separated after the party"
  • Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.
    • usage: "The bubble burst"

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"
  • Especially of wood. ( cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain)
    • usage: "we bought split logs for the fireplace"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
  • (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

broken

verb

  • Terminate.
    • usage: "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"
  • Become separated into pieces or fragments.
    • usage: "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
  • Render inoperable or ineffective.
    • usage: "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart"
  • Ruin completely.
    • usage: "He busted my radio"
  • Destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments.
    • usage: "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match"
  • Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises.
    • usage: "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"
  • Move away or escape suddenly.
    • usage: "The horses broke from the stable"; "Three inmates broke jail"; "Nobody can break out-this prison is high security"
  • Scatter or part.
    • usage: "The clouds broke after the heavy downpour"
  • Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up.
    • usage: "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"
  • Prevent completion.
    • usage: "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
  • Enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act.
    • usage: "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio"; "who broke into my account last night"
  • Make submissive, obedient, or useful.
    • usage: "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern"
  • Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns.
    • usage: "This sentence violates the rules of syntax"
  • Surpass in excellence.
    • usage: "She bettered her own record"; "break a record"
  • Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.
    • usage: "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
  • Come into being.
    • usage: "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air"
  • Stop operating or functioning.
    • usage: "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
  • Interrupt a continued activity.
    • usage: "She had broken with the traditional patterns"
  • Make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing.
    • usage: "The ranks broke"
  • Curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves.
    • usage: "The surf broke"
  • Lessen in force or effect.
    • usage: "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
  • Be broken in.
    • usage: "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress"
  • Come to an end.
    • usage: "The heat wave finally broke yesterday"
  • Vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity.
    • usage: "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas"
  • Cause to give up a habit.
    • usage: "She finally broke herself of smoking cigarettes"
  • Give up.
    • usage: "break cigarette smoking"
  • Come forth or begin from a state of latency.
    • usage: "The first winter storm broke over New York"
  • Happen or take place.
    • usage: "Things have been breaking pretty well for us in the past few months"
  • Cause the failure or ruin of.
    • usage: "His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage"; "This play will either make or break the playwright"
  • Invalidate by judicial action.
    • usage: "The will was broken"
  • 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"
  • Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.
    • usage: "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
  • Reduce to bankruptcy.
    • usage: "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
  • Change directions suddenly.
  • Emerge from the surface of a body of water.
    • usage: "The whales broke"
  • Break down, literally or metaphorically.
    • usage: "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
  • Do a break dance.
    • usage: "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner"
  • Exchange for smaller units of money.
    • usage: "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy"
  • Destroy the completeness of a set of related items.
    • usage: "The book dealer would not break the set"
  • Make the opening shot that scatters the balls.
  • Separate from a clinch, in boxing.
    • usage: "The referee broke the boxers"
  • Go to pieces.
    • usage: "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
  • Break a piece from a whole.
    • usage: "break a branch from a tree"
  • Become punctured or penetrated.
    • usage: "The skin broke"
  • Pierce or penetrate.
    • usage: "The blade broke her skin"
  • Be released or become known; of news.
    • usage: "News of her death broke in the morning"
  • Cease an action temporarily.
    • usage: "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"
  • Interrupt the flow of current in.
    • usage: "break a circuit"
  • Undergo breaking.
    • usage: "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages"
  • Find a flaw in.
    • usage: "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"
  • Find the solution or key to.
    • usage: "break the code"
  • Change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another.
    • usage: "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children"
  • Happen.
    • usage: "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
  • Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only.
    • usage: "The glass cracked when it was heated"
  • Crack; of the male voice in puberty.
    • usage: "his voice is breaking-he should no longer sing in the choir"
  • Fall sharply.
    • usage: "stock prices broke"
  • Fracture a bone of.
    • usage: "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
  • Diminish or discontinue abruptly.
    • usage: "The patient's fever broke last night"
  • Weaken or destroy in spirit or body.
    • usage: "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"

adjective

  • Physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split.
    • usage: "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"
  • Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly.
    • usage: "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"
  • Subdued or brought low in condition or status.
    • usage: "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
  • Especially of promises or contracts. ( having been violated or disregarded)
    • usage: "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts"
  • Tamed or trained to obey.
    • usage: "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"
  • Topographically very uneven.
    • usage: "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
  • Imperfectly spoken or written.
    • usage: "broken English"
  • Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion.
    • usage: "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
  • Weakened and infirm.
    • usage: "broken health resulting from alcoholism"
  • Destroyed financially.
    • usage: "the broken fortunes of the family"
  • Out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'. )
    • usage: "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"
  • Discontinuous.
    • usage: "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"
  • Lacking a part or parts.
    • usage: "a broken set of encyclopedia"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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