Split Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Split? What is its meaning in the dictionary? How to pronounce? Words starting with Split, Words ending with Split, Related sentences, Synonyms, Antonyms, Derivations, Example sentences and more...

Word: Split

How to pronounce: splɪt

Verb

Definitions:

1. Break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain.

Example sentences: "The ice cracked and heaved and split"

2. (with reference to a group of people) divide into two or more groups.

Example sentences: "Let's split up and find the other two"

3. (of one's head) suffer great pain from a headache.

4. Betray the secrets of or inform on someone.

5. Leave a place, especially suddenly.

Noun

Definitions:

1. A tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain.

Example sentences: "Light squeezed through a small split in the curtain"

2. (in gymnastics and dance) an act of leaping in the air or sitting down with the legs straight and at right angles to the upright body, one in front and the other behind, or one at each side.

Example sentences: "I could never do a split before"

3. A thing that is divided or split.

Example sentences: "Nor do we have all of the split posts, as there are too many half splits with the central pith intact."

4. The time it takes to complete a recognized part of a race, or the point in the race where such a time is measured.

Example sentences: "As a fierce relay anchor, Correia has the fastest 50 and 100-yard freestyle relay splits in history."

Proper noun

Definitions:

1. A seaport on the coast of southern Croatia; population 177,500 (est. 2009). It contains the ruins of the palace of the emperor Diocletian, built in about AD 300.

Synonyms:

division

schism

separation

bifurcation

disunion

sundering

crack

fissure

divide

disjoint

rift