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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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swerve
English
Alternative forms
- swarve
Etymology
From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerban? (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerb?- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sw??(?)v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sw?v/
- Rhymes: -??(r)v
Verb
swerve (third-person singular simple present swerves, present participle swerving, simple past and past participle swerved)
- (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
- A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- 1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel
- I swerve not from thy commandments.
- They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
- October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy Faith
- 1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel
- To bend; to incline.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis
- The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.
- c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:
- The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.
- 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:
Related terms
- swarf
Translations
Noun
swerve (plural swerves)
- A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
- 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)
- The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took.
- 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)
- A deviation from duty or custom.
- 1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston (page 56)
- […] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work.
- 1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston (page 56)
Derived terms
- body swerve
Translations
Anagrams
- Wevers
Middle English
Verb
swerve
- Alternative form of swerven
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