Meaning

17 senses
  1. A crack or longitudinal fissure.

    Riss, Spalt

    щельščelʹ, расще́линаrasščélina

    щі́линаščílyna

    a lengthwise crack in wood

  2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.

    Spaltung

    раско́лraskól, разры́вrazrýv

  3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

    ще́пкаščépka

  4. One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.

  5. 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.

  6. A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.

  7. (slang)A split-finger fastball.

    He’s got a nasty split.

  8. A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.

    (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl

  9. A split shot or split stroke.

  10. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.

    сплитsplit

  11. 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.

  12. A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.

    a bottle containing half the usual amount

Examples

368 sentences
  1. Tom and Mary have split up.

    Том і Мері розсталися.

    ruТом и Мэри расстались.

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  2. Tom and I have split up.

    Ми маємо розстатися з Томом.

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  3. They split up after a year of marriage.

    Вони розійшлися через рік після весілля.

    ruОни развелись через год после свадьбы.

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  4. Let's split the cost.

    Давай розділимо витрати.

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  5. Tom split up with Mary.

    Том розійшовся з Мері.

    ruТом расстался с Мэри.

    deTom hat sich von Mary getrennt.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
crack, longitudinal fissure:
manoeuvre, acrobatic feat ("splits"):
Русский
By meaning 5
crack, longitudinal fissure:
breach, division:
split-off piece:
dessert or confection:
manoeuvre, acrobatic feat ("splits"):
Deutsch
By meaning 3
crack, longitudinal fissure:
breach, division:
manoeuvre, acrobatic feat ("splits"):

Origin

Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low Germa

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”).

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Forms

plural: splits
Singularsplit
Pluralsplits

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity:stock splitsplit up
  • division of a group into opposing factions:schism
  • the act of rending or ripping or splitting something:rentrip
  • an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart:riprentsnagtear-n

Word family

113 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • split the bill
  • let's split
  • have split up
  • let's split the
  • split up into
  • split a bottle
  • had to split

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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