split
/splɪt/ adjective A2- Divided. · Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
- Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- Given in sixteenths rather than eighths. · 10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.
- Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
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THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.
A great roofless palace crowned the hill, and the marble of the courtyards and the fountains was split, and stained with red and green, and the very cobblestones in the courtyard where the king’s elephants used to live had been thrust up and apart by grasses and young trees.
“Because in 1807 I dreamed of the very plan Napoleon tried to realize in 1811; because, like Machiavelli, I desired to alter the political face of Italy, and instead of allowing it to be split up into a quantity of petty principalities, each held by some weak or tyrannical ruler, I sought to form one large, compact, and powerful empire; and, lastly, because I fancied I had found my Cæsar Borgia in a crowned simpleton, who feigned to enter into my views only to betray me.
"Ikey Sanders has split on us."
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