Synonyms for split
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : split |
| Phonetic Transcription : splɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for split Other synonyms for the word split
- alienation
- allocate
- allot
- apportion
- bifurcate
- branch
- break
- break-up
- burst
- carve up
- chink
- cleavage
- cleave
- cleft
- come apart
- come undone
- damage
- dichotomize
- disjoin
- dissever
- distribute
- disunite
- diverge
- divorce
- divvy
- divvy up
- dole
- estrangement
- fissure
- fork
- fracture
- gap
- gape
- give way
- go even-steven
- go fifty-fifty
- go separate ways
- hack
- halve
- isolate
- mete out
- open
- parcel out
- part
- part company
- partition
- put asunder
- rend
- rent
- rift
- rima
- rimation
- rime
- rip
- rive
- rupture
- schism
- separate
- separation
- sever
- share
- slash
- slice
- slice the pie
- slice up
- slit
- snap
- splinter
- sunder
- tear
- whack
Définition of split
Origin :- 1580s, from Middle Dutch splitten, from Proto-Germanic *spl(e)it- (cf. Danish and Frisian splitte, Old Frisian splita, German spleißen "to split"), from PIE *(s)plei- "to split, splice" (see flint).
- Meaning "leave, depart" first recorded 1954, U.S. slang. Of couples, "to separate, divorce" from 1942. To split the difference is from 1715; to split (one's) ticket in the U.S. political sense is attested from 1842. Splitting image "exact likeness" is from 1880. Split screen is from 1953; split shift is from 1955; split personality first attested 1919. Split-level as a type of building plan is recorded from 1952. Split-second first attested 1884, in reference to a type of stopwatch with two second hands that could be stopped independently; adjectival meaning "occurring in a fraction of a second" is from 1946.
- noun opening
- noun difference, disunion
- verb break up, pull apart
- verb divide into parts
- I think I'm just a split second surer and faster than you are with a gun.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Yet it must have taken not more than the split part of a second.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- The rest they'll split up into several farms and rent for the present.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
- A little later the larboard fore-sheet went, and the sail was split.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Do not split it in half when you dish it, as is the practice with some cooks.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Put them, one at a time, into the cleft or split end of the larding-needle.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Pigeons may be split and broiled, like chickens; also stewed or fricasseed.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Divide them in pieces and split them, or cut them into slices.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Send them to table hot, and split them by pulling open with your hands.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Cut off the bills and split the heads; and cut the necks and gizzards into mouthfuls.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
Antonyms for split
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