Meaning & Definition of Split in English

1. Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)

2. A bottle containing half the usual amount

3. A promised or claimed share of loot or money

• "He demanded his split before they disbanded"

4. A lengthwise crack in wood

• "He inserted the wedge into a split in the log"

5. An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

• "There was a rip in his pants"

• "She had snags in her stockings"

6. An old croatian city on the adriatic sea

7. A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts

8. (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. 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"

10. The act of rending or ripping or splitting something

• "He gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

11. Division of a group into opposing factions

• "Another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"

1. Separate into parts or portions

• "Divide the cake into three equal parts"

• "The british carved up the ottoman empire after world war i"

2. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

• "Cleave the bone"

3. 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"

4. Go one's own way

• Move apart

• "The friends separated after the party"

5. Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure

• "The bubble burst"

1. 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"

2. (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain

• "We bought split logs for the fireplace"