split

split is a 5-letter English word with 38 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Split. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 38 senses

Definitions

1. past tense & past participle. of Split
2. transitive verb. To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
3. transitive verb. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
4. transitive verb. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
5. transitive verb. To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
6. intransitive verb. To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
7. intransitive verb. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
8. intransitive verb. To separate into parties or factions.
9. intransitive verb. To burst with laughter.
10. intransitive verb. To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
11. intransitive verb. to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
12. noun. A crack, or longitudinal fissure.
13. noun. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
14. noun. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
15. noun. Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
16. noun. A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
17. noun. the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
18. noun. the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
19. adjective. Divided; cleft.
20. adjective. Divided deeply; cleft.
21. noun. division of a group into opposing factions

    "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"

    Synonyms: schism

22. noun. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

    "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

    Synonyms: rent, rip

23. noun. extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
24. noun. 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"

25. noun. (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"

26. noun. a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
27. noun. an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea
28. noun. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

    "there was a rip in his pants"

    "she had snags in her stockings"

    Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, tear

29. noun. a lengthwise crack in wood

    "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"

30. noun. a promised or claimed share of loot or money

    "he demanded his split before they disbanded"

31. noun. a bottle containing half the usual amount
32. verb. come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure

    "The bubble burst"

    Synonyms: burst

33. verb. separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

    "cleave the bone"

    Synonyms: cleave, rive

34. verb. go one's own way; move apart

    "The friends separated after the party"

    Synonyms: part, separate

35. verb. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

    "The business partners broke over a tax question"

    "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"

    Synonyms: break, part, separate

36. verb. separate into parts or portions

    "divide the cake into three equal parts"

    "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

    Synonyms: dissever, divide, separate

37. adjective. (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain

    "we bought split logs for the fireplace"

38. adjective. having been divided; having the unity destroyed-Samuel Lubell- E.B.White

    "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"

    "a league of disunited nations"

    Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented

Synonyms

schism, rent, rip, snag, tear, burst, cleave, rive, part, separate, break, dissever, divide, disconnected, disunited, fragmented

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in split:

slipt, spilt

Common word forms

splits, splitted, splitter, splitting

Words from these letters

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