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All 5 letters words made out of split

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Definitions and meaning of split

split

Etymology

Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *splittjan, an intensive form of Proto-West Germanic *splītan (“to split”), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (whence Danish splitte, Low German splieten, German spleißen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

Compare Old English speld (“splinter”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), Old Irish sliss (“splinter”), Lithuanian spaliai (“flax sheaves”), Czech půl (“half”), Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: splĭt, IPA^(key): /splɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Verb

split (third-person singular simple present splits, present participle splitting, simple past and past participle split)

1. (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.

   Synonym: cleave
2. (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
3. (transitive) To share; to divide.
4. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave

5. (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.

   Synonyms: break up, split up

6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.

   Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.

7. (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
8. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
9. (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
10. (intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
11. (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.

12. (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.

Translations

Adjective

split (not comparable)

1. Divided.

   Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
2. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
3. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
4. (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
5. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.

   10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.

6. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.

Translations

Noun

split (plural splits)

1. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
4. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
5. (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
7. (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.

   Hyponym: bro split

8. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.

   He’s got a nasty split.

9. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
10. A split shot or split stroke.
11. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
12. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
13. A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
14. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.

    In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32

15. (video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
16. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
17. (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
18. (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single.
19. (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.

Descendants

• → Irish: spliota

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• slipt, spilt, stilp

Danish

Verb

split

1. imperative of splitte

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English splits.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈplit/ [esˈplit̪]
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

split m (uncountable)

1. splits

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “split”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish split, borrowed from Middle Low German spliten (“to split”). First attested in 1533.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spliːt/

Noun

split n

1. discord, strife, dissension

Declension

Derived terms

• så split

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English split. First attested in 1974.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /splɪtː/

Noun

split c

1. a split (of shares in a company)
2. a side split, a straddle split (in gymnastics)

Declension

See also

• aktiesplit
• spagat
• splits
• splitt

Further reading

• split in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• split in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• pilts