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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
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- what splits the brain in half
crop
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?p, IPA(key): /k??p/
- (General American) enPR: kräp, IPA(key): /k??p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup.
Noun
crop (plural crops)
- (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- A short haircut.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
- XIX c., George MacDonald, The Early Bird:
- A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
- Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
- Day-long she had worked almost without rest,
- And had filled every one of their gibbous crops;
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
- The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
- 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]
- As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.
- XIX c., George MacDonald, The Early Bird:
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- An entire oxhide.
Synonyms
- (harvest): harvest, yield
- (whip used on horses): hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- gizzard
Etymology 2
From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Middle English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.
Verb
crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- to crop a field
Derived terms
- outcrop
- crop up
Translations
See also
- Wikipedia article on the crop of an animal
- Wikipedia article on riding crops
- Wikipedia article on cropping images
References
- crop at OneLook Dictionary Search
- crop in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Copr., Corp, Corp., RCPO, corp, corp., proc
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