different between split vs crevice

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)

1. Divided.

   Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
2. (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
3. (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
4. (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.
5. (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.

   10+³?₁₆ is a split quotation.

6. (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

split (plural splits)

1. A crack or longitudinal fissure.
2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
4. (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
5. (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.
6. (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

7. (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.

   He’s got a nasty split.

8. (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
9. A split shot or split stroke.
10. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
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.
13. (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.

    In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32

14. (video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
15. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
16. (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.
17. (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)

1. (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
2. (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
3. (transitive) To share; to divide.
4. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:leave

5. (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.

   Synonyms: break up, split up

6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.

   Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.

7. (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 ${\displaystyle X^{2}-2}$, the minimum polynomial of ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}$, splits completely over ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {2}})}$; in the second case we see that ${\displaystyle X^{3}-2}$, the minimum polynomial of ${\displaystyle 3{\sqrt {2}}}$, does not split completely over ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} (3{\sqrt {2}})}$.

8. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
9. (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
10. (intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.

    • " […] I split, and tell all […] "

11. (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.

12. (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• slipt, spilt, stilp

Danish

Verb

split

1. imperative of splitte

Spanish

Etymology

From English splits.

Noun

split m (uncountable)

1. splits

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish split, borrowed from Middle Low German spliten (“to split”)

Noun

split n or c

1. 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.

2. a split (of shares in a company)
3. a side split, a straddle split (in gymnastics)

Declension

See also

• aktiesplit
• spagat
• splits
• splitt

Anagrams

• pilts

English

Etymology

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??v?s/

Noun

crevice (plural crevices)

1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana

     The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.

   • 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West

     I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

Translations

Verb

crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)

1. To crack; to flaw.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)

References

• crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• crevice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search

Old French

Alternative forms

• crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche

Etymology

From either Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from Old High German krebiz (“edible crustacean, crab”) (German Krebs (“crab”)), from the same source. Cognate with Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”).

Noun

crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)

1. crayfish, crawfish

Descendants

• Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
  • French: écrevisse
• ? Middle Dutch: crevetse
• ? Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
  • English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)