Crossword clues for splitting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Split \Split\ (spl[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Split ( Splitted, R.); p. pr. & vb. n. Splitting.] [Probably of Scand. or Low German origin; cf. Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten, G. spleissen, MHG. spl[=i]zen. Cf. Splice, Splint, Splinter.]
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To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain or layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
Cold winter split the rocks in twain.
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To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water.
--Boyle. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. [Colloq.]
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(Chem.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
Wiktionary
1 Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped. 2 severe. n. 1 An instance where something split#Ver
2 (context psychology English) A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self. 3 (context chemistry English) The cleavage of a covalent bond. vb. (present participle of split English)
WordNet
n. extending the legs at right angles to the trunks (one in front and the other in back)
a bottle containing half the usual amount
a promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded his split before they disbanded"
a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, tear]
an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea
a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
(tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame"
an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock" [syn: stock split, split up]
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip]
division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy" [syn: schism]
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adj. being divided or separated; "split between love and hate"
having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" [syn: disconnected, disunited, fragmented]
broken or burst apart longitudinally; "after the thunderstorm we found a tree with a split trunk"; "they tore big juicy chunks from the heart of the split watermelon"
having a long rip or tear; "a split lip" [syn: cut]
(especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace"
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v. separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: divide, split up, separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unite]
separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: cleave, rive]
discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [syn: separate, part, split up, break, break up]
go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [syn: separate, part]
break open or apart suddenly; "The bubble burst" [syn: burst, break open]
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See split
Wikipedia
Splitting may refer to:
- Splitting (psychology)
- Lumpers and splitters, in classification or taxonomy
- Wood splitting
Splitting (also called black-and-white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking) is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a cohesive, realistic whole. It is a common defense mechanism used by many people. The individual tends to think in extremes (i.e., an individual's actions and motivations are all good or all bad with no middle ground).
The concept of splitting was developed by Ronald Fairbairn in his formulation of object relations theory; it begins as the inability of the infant to combine the fulfilling aspects of the parents (the good object) and their unresponsive aspects (the unsatisfying object) into the same individuals, instead seeing the good and bad as separate. In psychoanalytic theory this functions as a defense mechanism.
Usage examples of "splitting".
Every day the outcasts were in the streets, women with junk carts, a man dragging a mattress, ordinary drunks slipping in from the dock areas, from construction craters near the Hudson, people without shoes, amputees and freaks, men splitting off from groups sleeping in fish crates under the highway and limping down past the slips and lanes, the helicopter pad, onto Broad Street, living rags.
One crystal form, anatase, is furthermore even capable, at least in theory, of splitting water molecules all by itself.
In order that the breeder pile continue to operate it was imperative that each atom split by a neutron from the beryllium target should cause the splitting of many more.
Taking into account all sets of pitch values related in this way, and even after reduction by means of splitting pitch into absolute and modulo octaves components, such an implementation would require a large number of connections.
He drew the pathways of the light rays from the anus to the eyeballs and back, splitting it into colorful rainbows and sophisticated spectra which he elaborated with multivariate complex equations and graphs.
And then it came apart, splitting into half a dozen smaller redactions of itself.
A sad smile eased across the wrinkled features, seamed wood splitting with age.
Then, with a whistling note that rose above the droning of the pit, the beam swung close over their heads, lighting the tops of the beech trees that line the road, and splitting the bricks, smashing the windows, firing the window frames, and bringing down in crumbling ruin a portion of the gable of the house nearest the corner.
The volva around the base of the stem is formed by the splitting or bursting of the veil, and its different modes of rupture mark the several species.
From Aarhus he moved on to Lady Bell, splitting himself into a dozen small fog patches and seeping into her body through a variety of orifices.
Nicene, and the Athanasian creed, without splitting metaphysical hairs with your neighbor?
Then the blows of the axe with its splitting and smashing consequences, were resumed.
After splitting the floor, the boggart had caught the old priest by his foot and dragged his leg down into the ground almost as far as his knee.
I started splitting and Joan grabbed a bucksaw and started cutting blocks off an eight foot log.
The commercial was a cosponsor deal, with CPG splitting the production costs with E-Tech.