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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.

down

noun

  • Soft fine feathers.
  • American football. ( a complete play to advance the football)
    • usage: "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
  • English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896.
  • Usually plural. ( a rolling treeless highland with little soil)
  • Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs.

verb

  • Drink down entirely.
    • usage: "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
  • Eat immoderately.
    • usage: "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
  • Bring down or defeat (an opponent. )
  • Shoot at and force to come down.
    • usage: "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
  • Cause to come or go down.
    • usage: "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
  • Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.
    • usage: "refine one's style of writing"

adjective

  • Being or moving lower in position or less in some value.
    • usage: "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
  • Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place.
    • usage: "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
  • Becoming progressively lower.
    • usage: "the down trend in the real estate market"
  • Being put out by a strikeout.
    • usage: "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
  • Understood perfectly.
    • usage: "had his algebra problems down"
  • Lower than previously.
    • usage: "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
  • Shut.
    • usage: "the shades were down"
  • Not functioning (temporarily or permanently. )
    • usage: "we can't work because the computer is down"
  • Filled with melancholy and despondency .
    • usage: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

adverb

  • Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position.
    • usage: "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"
  • Away from a more central or a more northerly place.
    • usage: "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida"
  • Paid in cash at time of purchase.
    • usage: "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
  • From an earlier time.
    • usage: "the story was passed down from father to son"
  • To a lower intensity.
    • usage: "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
  • In an inactive or inoperative state.
    • usage: "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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