split

verb14

1. •
   To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.

   • He has split his lip.
2. •
   to share something such as money, work or a bill with other people, each taking some of it

   • We split the money among three people.
3. •
   Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
4. •
   To separate.

   • Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
5. •
   To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.

   • Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
6. •
   (slang) To leave.

   • Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
7. •
   To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.

   • The ship splits on the rock. — 1591
8. •
   For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.

   • Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.
9. •
   To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
10. •
    To burst out laughing.
11. •
    To factor into linear factors.
12. •
    To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
13. •
    To contain an object which may be so expressed.
14. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.

    • "[…]I split, and tell all […]" — 1848

noun17

1. •
   A crack or longitudinal fissure.
2. •
   A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.

   • It destroys the class system and exploitation; it heals the split in man's nature and the crippled, one-sided development of the individual. — 1978
3. •
   The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.

   • [I]t would be a rare split in that it would be unlikely to result in an armchair tick for any birders, living or dead. — 2017
4. •
   A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
5. •
   The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.

   • In the 3000 m race, his 800 m split was 1:45.32
6. •
   A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
7. •
   A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
8. •
   A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.

   • The kernels split in shelling, known as splits, form a fifth grade of shelled Virginia peanuts. — 1929
9. •
   One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
10. •
    A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
11. •
    (slang) A split-finger fastball.

    • He’s got a nasty split.
12. •
    A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
13. •
    A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
14. •
    A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
15. •
    A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
16. •
    A split shot or split stroke.
17. •
    A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

adjective6

1. •
   Divided.

   • Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
2. •
   Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
3. •
   Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
4. •
   Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
5. •
   Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
6. •
   (historical) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.

   • 10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.

noun1

1. •
   A port city in Croatia.