different between tearing vs splitting

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??.???]
• Rhymes: -??r??

Verb

tearing

1. present participle of tear

Adjective

tearing

1. (colloquial) enormous; of great size or impact

   a tearing great giant of a man

2. (colloquial) very hasty

   a tearing hurry

Noun

tearing (usually uncountable, plural tearings)

1. The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
2. (computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??.???]
• Rhymes: -??r??

Noun

tearing (uncountable)

1. (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora

Related terms

tear_up#Etymology_2

Anagrams

• Geraint, Granite, Tangier, angrite, granite, ingrate, tangier

English

Noun

splitting (plural splittings)

1. An instance where something splits.
2. (psychology) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
   • 2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin 2008, p. 308:

     In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting’.

3. (chemistry) The cleavage of a covalent bond.

Derived terms

• fee splitting

Translations

Adjective

splitting (comparative more splitting, superlative most splitting)

1. Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
2. Very rapid.

   They moved at a splitting pace.

3. Severely painful.

   I have a splitting headache.

Verb

splitting

1. present participle of split

Anagrams

• spittling