Word Meanings - SPLIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety. (more info) Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten,

Additional info about word: SPLIT

To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety. (more info) Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten, G. 1. To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. 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. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden. 2. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. Boyle. 3. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPLIT)

• Break
• Fracture
• rupture
• shatter
• shiver
• destroy
• tame
• curb
• demolish
• tear asunder
• rend
• burst
• sever
• smash
• split
• subdue
• violate
• infringe
• Burst Extravasate
• displode
• explode
• discharge
• disrupt
• break
• Cleave
• Sunder
• divide
• adhere
• di?sever
• stick
• Crack \t Split
• splinter
• chip
• snap
• Rend
• Tear
• lacerate
• separate
• disintegrate
• disunite
• rive

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SPLIT)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand

Related words: (words related to SPLIT)

• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• LACERATE; LACERATED
  Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. (more info) 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• ADHERE
  1. To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura. 2. To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.