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"
- synonyms: stock split, split up
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"