What is the meaning of Split?

noun

• Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back. )
• A bottle containing half the usual amount.
• A promised or claimed share of loot or money.
  • usage: "he demanded his split before they disbanded"
• A lengthwise crack in wood.
  • usage: "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log"
• An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.
  • usage: "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
  • synonyms: 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)
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"
  • synonyms: stock split, split up
• The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.
  • usage: "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
  • synonyms: rent, rip
• Division of a group into opposing factions.
  • usage: "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"
  • synonyms: schism

verb

• Separate into parts or portions.
  • usage: "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
  • synonyms: divide, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
• Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
  • usage: "cleave the bone"
  • synonyms: cleave, rive
• Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
  • usage: "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
  • synonyms: separate, part, split up, break, break up
• Go one's own way; move apart.
  • usage: "The friends separated after the party"
  • synonyms: separate, part
• Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.
  • usage: "The bubble burst"
  • synonyms: burst, break open

adjective

• Having been divided; having the unity destroyed.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented
• Especially of wood. ( cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain)
  • usage: "we bought split logs for the fireplace"