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    split
    [split]
    verb
    split (verb) · splits (third person present) · split (past tense) · split (past participle) · splitting (present participle)
    1. break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain:
      "the ice cracked and heaved and split" · "split and toast the muffins"
      • remove or be removed by breaking, separating, or dividing:
        "the point was pressed against the edge of the flint to split off flakes" · "an incentive for regions to split away from countries"
      • divide or cause to divide into parts or elements:
        "the river had split into a number of channels" · "splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen"
      • divide and share (something, especially resources or responsibilities):
        "they met up and split the booty"
      • cause the fission of (an atom):
        "it could ultimately prove as significant an achievement as splitting the atom"
      • issue new shares of (stock) to existing stockholders in proportion to their current holdings.
    2. (with reference to a group of people) divide into two or more groups:
      "let's split up and find the other two" · "once again the family was split up"
      • end a marriage or an emotional or working relationship:
        "I split up with my boyfriend a year ago"
      • (of an issue) cause (a group) to be divided because of opposing views:
        "the party was deeply split over its future direction"
    3. informal
      (of one's head) suffer great pain from a headache:
      "my head is splitting"
    4. BRITISH ENGLISH
      informal
      betray the secrets of or inform on someone:
      "I told him I wouldn't split on him"
    5. informal
      leave a place, especially suddenly:
      "“Let's split,” Harvey said"
    noun
    split (noun) · splits (plural noun) · a split (noun) · the splits (plural noun)
    1. a tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain:
      "light squeezed through a small split in the curtain"
      • an instance or act of splitting or being split; a division:
        "the split between the rich and the poor"
      • a separation into parties or within a party; a schism:
        "the accusations caused a split in the party"
      • an ending of a marriage or an emotional or working relationship:
        "a much-publicized split with his wife"
      • short for stock split
    2. (a splitthe splits)
      (in gymnastics and dance) an act of leaping in the air or sitting down with the legs straight and at right angles to the upright body, one in front and the other behind, or one at each side:
      "I could never do a split before"
    3. a thing that is divided or split.
      • a bun, roll, or cake that is split or cut in half.
      • a split osier used in basketwork.
      • each strip of steel or cane that makes up the reed in a loom.
      • half a bottle or glass of champagne or other liquor.
      • a single thickness of split hide.
      • (in bowling) a formation of standing pins after the first ball in which there is a gap between two pins or groups of pins, making a spare unlikely.
      • NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
        a drawn game or series.
      • US ENGLISH
        a split-level house.
    4. the time it takes to complete a recognized part of a race, or the point in the race where such a time is measured.
    Origin
    late 16th century (originally in the sense ‘break up a ship’, describing the force of a storm or rock): from Middle Dutch splitten, of unknown ultimate origin.
    Split
    [split]
    definition
    1. a seaport on the coast of southern Croatia; population 177,500 (est. 2009). It contains the ruins of the palace of the emperor Diocletian, built in about AD 300.
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    verb
    1. break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain:
    2. (of one's head) suffer great pain from a headache:
      be painful
      be sore
      be tender
      cause pain
      cause discomfort
      be killing
      be playing up
      Opposite:
      be healed
    3. betray the secrets of or inform on someone:
      inform on/against
      tell tales on
      stab in the back
      squeal on
      peach on
      sell down the river
      grass on
      drop a/the dime on
      pimp on
      put someone's pot on
    4. leave a place, especially suddenly:
      Opposite:
     
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    The term "split" can be defined as follows: cambridge.org 1 2 3 4

    • To divide into two or more parts.
    • To separate by cutting or chopping.
    • To divide something and share it between different people or activities.
     
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