| Noun | 1. | split - extending the legs at right angles to the trunks (one in front and the other in back) | |
| 2. | split - a bottle containing half the usual amount | |
| 3. | split - a promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded his split before they disbanded"percentage, share, portion, part - assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" | |
| 4. | split - a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log" | |
| 5. | split - an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"opening, gap - an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall" | |
| 6. | Split - an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Seacity, metropolis, urban center - a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" Croatia, Hrvatska, Republic of Croatia - a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991 | |
| 7. | split - a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nutsbanana split - a banana split lengthwise and topped with scoops of ice cream and sauces and nuts and whipped cream | |
| 8. | split - (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame" | |
| 9. | split - an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"step-up, increase - the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary" | |
| 10. | split - the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"tear - the act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear" | |
| 11. | split - division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"division - the act or process of dividing | |
| Verb | 1. | split - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"subdivide - divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" initialise, initialize, format - divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!" triangulate - divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" lot - divide into lots, as of land, for example parcel - divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land" paragraph - divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed" canton - divide into cantons, of a country | |
| 2. | split - separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"maul - split (wood) with a maul and wedges laminate - split (wood) into thin sheets tear - to separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars" cleave - make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock" | |
| 3. | split - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"disunify, break apart - break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" break with - end a relationship; "China broke with Russia" split up, divorce - get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" secede, splinter, break away - withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" break away, break - interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" | |
| 4. | split - go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" break up - come apart; "the group broke up" diffract - undergo diffraction; "laser light diffracts electrons" | |
| 5. | split - break open or apart suddenly; "The bubble burst"pop - burst open with a sharp, explosive sound; "The balloon popped"; "This popcorn pops quickly in the microwave oven" blow - burst suddenly; "The tire blew"; "We blew a tire" | |
| Adj. | 1. | split - being divided or separated; "split between love and hate"divided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided" | |
| 2. | split - having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "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"divided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided" | |
| 3. | split - broken or burst apart longitudinally; "after the thunderstorm we found a tree with a split trunk"; "they tore big juicy chunks from the heart of the split watermelon"broken - physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; or legally or emotionally destroyed; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"; "children from broken homes"; "a broken marriage"; "a broken heart" | |
| 4. | split - having a long rip or tear; "a split lip"injured - usually used of physical or mental injury to persons; "injured soldiers"; "injured feelings" | |
| 5. | split - (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace"cut - separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists" | |