different between split vs crater
split
English
Etymology
Attested since about 1567, from Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”) and/or Middle Low German splitten (“to split”), from Old Saxon *spl?tan, both intensive forms related to Proto-West Germanic *spl?tan, from Proto-Germanic *spl?tan? (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 p?l (“half”), Old Church Slavonic ???-??????? (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: spl?t, IPA(key): /spl?t/
Adjective
split (not comparable)
- Divided.
- Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (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.
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- 10 3?16 is a split quotation.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
split (plural splits)
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- (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.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targetted in a microcycle.
- Hyponym: bro split
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- He’s got a nasty split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- 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.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
- In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
- (video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (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.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
split (third-person singular simple present splits, present participle splitting, simple past and past participle split)
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- Synonym: cleave
- 1660, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
- a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- Synonyms: break up, split up
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- 2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103,
- In the first case , the minimum polynomial of , splits completely over ; in the second case we see that , the minimum polynomial of , does not split completely over .
- 2007, John M. Howie, Fields and Galois Theory, Springer, page 103,
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
- " […] I split, and tell all […] "
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- slipt, spilt, stilp
Danish
Verb
split
- imperative of splitte
Spanish
Etymology
From English splits.
Noun
split m (uncountable)
- splits
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish split, borrowed from Middle Low German spliten (“to split”)
Noun
split n or c
- discord, strife, dissension
- Det blir avunden och splitet, som blir Sveriges fördärv.
- It is the envy and the strife, that will be Sweden's demise.
- Det blir avunden och splitet, som blir Sveriges fördärv.
- a split (of shares in a company)
- a side split, a straddle split (in gymnastics)
Declension
See also
- aktiesplit
- spagat
- splits
- splitt
Anagrams
- pilts
split From the web:
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- what split north and south korea
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- what splits dna in replication
- what splits the brain in half
crater
English
Etymology 1
First coined 1613, from Latin cr?t?r (“basin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?e?.t?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?e?.t?/
- Rhymes: -e?t?(r)
Noun
crater (plural craters)
- (astronomy) A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. [from 1831]
- Synonym: astrobleme
- (geology) The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up. [from 1610s]
- The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]
- (informal, by extension) Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
- (historical) Alternative spelling of krater (“vessel for mixing water and wine”)
- 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:
- The people of those parts lived in underground houses - more of dug-outs - along with their goats and sheep and they had great craters full of wine, barley-wine, that they drank through reeds.
- 1941, Louis MacNeice, The March of the 10,000:
Hyponyms
Derived terms
See also
- machtesh
- caldera
Translations
References
- crater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)
- To form craters in a surface.
- To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
- Synonyms: implode, hollow out
- (snowboarding) To crash or fall.
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /?k?e?.t??/
Noun
crater (plural craters)
- (Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of creature.
- 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
- Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?
- 1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
Usage notes
This term is still commonly used in speech but rarely appears in modern writing.
Anagrams
- Carter, arrect, carter, tracer
Latin
Alternative forms
- cr?t?ra
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kr?t?r, “mixingbowl, wassail-bowl”), from ????????? (keránnumi, “to mix, to mingle, to blend”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kra?.te?r/, [?k?ä?t?e?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kra.ter/, [?k???t??r]
Noun
cr?t?r m (genitive cr?t?ris or cr?t?ros); third declension
- A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
- The opening of a volcano.
Declension
Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant).
Descendants
- ? English: crater
- ? Finnish: krateeri
- ? French: cratère
- ? German: Krater
- ? Serbo-Croatian: ???????
- ? Russian: ??????? (kráter)
- ? Spanish: cráter
References
- crater in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- crater in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crater in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crater in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- crater in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
From French cratère
Noun
crater n (plural cratere)
- crater
Declension
crater From the web:
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- what crater is in arizona
- what crater means
- what crater was used in thor
- what craters from the watney triangle
- what crater did perseverance land in
- what craters are on mars
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