(split) v. split, split·ting v.t.
1. To separate into parts by force, especially into two approximately equal parts.
2. To break or divide lengthwise or along the grain; rive; separate into layers.
3. To divide into groups or factions; disrupt, as a political party.
4. To divide and distribute by portions or shares.
—v.i.
5. To break apart; divide lengthwise or along the grain.
6. To become divided or disunited through disagreement, etc.
7. To share something with others.
8. Slang To leave quickly or abruptly.
—to split hairs To make fine distinctions; be unnecessarily precise or subtle.
—to split off
1. To break off by splitting.
2. To separate by or as by splitting.
—to split the difference To divide equally a sum in dispute.
—to split up
1. To separate into parts and distribute.
2. To cease association; separate.
—noun
1. The act or result of splitting; a longitudinal fissure; cleft; rent.
2. Separation of an aggregate body into factions; rupture; schism: a split in the church.
3. A sliver; splinter.
4. A share or portion, as of loot or booty
5. A six–ounce bottle of an alcoholic beverage or of mineral water.
6. A split osier, used in certain phases of basket weaving.
7. A confection made of a sliced banana, ice–cream, sirup, chopped nuts, and whipped cream.
8. A single thickness of a split skin or hide.
9. In bowling, the position of two or more pins left standing on such spots that a spare is nearly impossible.
10. A split ballot: There were 47 splits in the ballot box.
11. An acrobatic trick in which the legs are extended upon the floor in a straight line at right angles to the body.
12. Slang A quick departure.
—adjective
1. Divided, especially longitudinally or with the grain; cleft; fissured.
2. Dressed and cured after being cleaned: said of fish.
3. Given in sixteenths, rather than eighths, as a stock quotation: 10^1/16 is a split quotation: opposed to regular.
4. Divided: a split ballot. [<MDu. splitten]
—split′ter noun

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The chief Dalmatian city of southern Croatia, Yugoslavia; a major port on the Adriatic: Italian Spalato.