Split and Step

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.

noun

• Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
  • usage: "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime"
  • synonyms: measure
• The distance covered by a step.
  • usage: "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig"
  • synonyms: footstep, pace, stride
• The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down.
  • usage: "he walked with unsteady steps"
• Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
  • usage: "he paused on the bottom step"
  • synonyms: stair
• Relative position in a graded series.
  • usage: "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"
  • synonyms: gradation
• A short distance.
  • usage: "it's only a step to the drugstore"
  • synonyms: stone's throw
• The sound of a step of someone walking.
  • usage: "he heard footsteps on the porch"
  • synonyms: footfall, footstep
• A musical interval of two semitones.
  • synonyms: tone, whole tone, whole step
• A mark of a foot or shoe on a surface.
  • usage: "the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window"
  • synonyms: footprint, footmark
• A solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed.
• A sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance.
  • usage: "he taught them the waltz step"
  • synonyms: dance step

verb

• Shift or move by taking a step.
  • usage: "step back"
• Put down or press the foot, place the foot.
  • usage: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake"
  • synonyms: tread
• Cause (a computer) to execute a single command.
• Treat badly.
  • usage: "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"
  • synonyms: mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat
• Furnish with steps.
  • usage: "The architect wants to step the terrace"
• Move with one's feet in a specific manner.
  • usage: "step lively"
• Walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner.
  • usage: "step over to the blackboard"
• Place (a ship's mast) in its step.
• Measure (distances) by pacing.
  • usage: "step off ten yards"
  • synonyms: pace
• Move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation.
  • usage: "She stepped into a life of luxury"; "he won't step into his father's footsteps"

• (n.) At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.
• (v.i.) One of a series of offsets or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
• (v.i.) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• (v.i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• (v.i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• (v.i.) Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
• (a.) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
• (v.t.) To set, as the foot.
• (v.i.) A rest or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair or a round of a ladder.
• (v.i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
• (a.) Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• (v.i.) An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
• (a.) To walk slowly, gravely or resolutely.
• (v.i.) Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
• (v.i.) Walk; passage.
• (v.i.) The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
• (v.i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step or by steps.
• (a.) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place or by moving both feet in succession.
• (v.t.) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
• (v.i.) A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
• (v.i.) A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

• , American: Form of Steven. crown
• American: From the name Steven