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verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- shape like a fork
- lift with a pitchfork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
noun
- A tuning fork.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
adj
verb
- divide into pieces
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- (informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a (sport) team.
- to criticise someone
- To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
verb
adj
noun
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
- (baseball) third base
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- The person or thing in the third position.
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
adv
noun
- dividing into four equal parts
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
- A division into four parts.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
adj
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
verb
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
noun
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
name
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- one of the parts into which something naturally divides
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- A length of some object.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- (computing) An Ethernet bus.
adj
prefix
- Forked, divided by two, halved; (chemistry, proscribed) half
- Twice.
- (anatomy) Bilateral, on both sides of the body.
- Being different in two ways with respect to the root.
- A pair of; composed of two.
- Every two; a rate of once every two.
- Having or possessing two of the root word's quality.
- (before a vowel) Alternative form of bio-.
- Double, twofold.
- (chemistry) Used for the digit two to form systematic element names of elements whose existence has been predicted, and which have not yet been given a trivial name.
- Both: referring to two as a set.
- (LGBTQ) Bisexual, relating to bisexuality.
- Two in number.
noun
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- the act of splitting into two branches
- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- the place where something divides into two branches
noun
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
verb
- divide into slivers or splinters
- break up into splinters or slivers
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
noun
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
- A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
verb
- divide by two; divide into halves
- (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
- (transitive) To divide into two halves.
- (transitive) To make up half of.
- (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
- (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
verb
- To separate into a number of parts.
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- (ergative) To digest.
- (transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.
- (informal) Bust down or bust a move; the act of performing energetic, often freestyle or hip-hop moves, frequently during a song’s instrumental break where only drums or bass are playing.
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- (ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To give in or give up: relent, concede, surrender.
- (intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.
- (intransitive) To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- (intransitive) To unexpectedly collapse, physically or in structure.
- (ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- make ineffective
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- stop operating or functioning
- lose control of one's emotions
- cause to fall or collapse
- fall apart
noun
verb
- To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
- (firearms) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
- To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).
adj
noun
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
- (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
- That divides something into parts.
- (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
noun
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- Serving to separate.
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verb
noun
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- make a division or separation
- perform a division
- move or break apart
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
noun
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- 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
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- 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.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") 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.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
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adj
verb
- break up into small pieces for food preparation
- hurt the feelings of
- injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
- damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
- (intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
- (transitive, figurative) To harm or injure somebody's feelings or self-esteem.
- (intransitive) To become bruised.
- (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
- (transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
- (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.
- (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
noun
verb
- cut into small pieces
- walk daintily
- make less severe or harsh
- (transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- (transitive) To make less; to make small.
- (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
- (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
- (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
- (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
noun
- food chopped into small bits
- (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
- (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
- (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
- (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
- (UK, slang, uncountable) Something worthless; rubbish.
- (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
verb
- To divide into two equal parts.
- (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
- To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
- To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
- To act as a spiritualistic medium.
- (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
- act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
adj
adj
verb
noun
- dividing into four equal parts
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
- A division into four parts.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
adj
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
verb
noun
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
name
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- the act of splitting into two branches
- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- the place where something divides into two branches
noun
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- shape like a fork
- lift with a pitchfork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
noun
- A tuning fork.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- shape like a fork
- lift with a pitchfork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
noun
- A tuning fork.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- divide into pieces
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- (informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a (sport) team.
- to criticise someone
- To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
verb
adj
noun
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
- (baseball) third base
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- The person or thing in the third position.
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
adv
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- one of the parts into which something naturally divides
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- A length of some object.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- (computing) An Ethernet bus.
verb
noun
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
verb
- divide into slivers or splinters
- break up into splinters or slivers
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
- (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
- (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
noun
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
- A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
- A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.
- (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
- (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
- A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
verb
- divide by two; divide into halves
- (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
- (transitive) To divide into two halves.
- (transitive) To make up half of.
- (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
- (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
verb
- To separate into a number of parts.
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become weak and ineffective.
- (ergative) To digest.
- (transitive) To intentionally demolish; to pull down.
- (informal) Bust down or bust a move; the act of performing energetic, often freestyle or hip-hop moves, frequently during a song’s instrumental break where only drums or bass are playing.
- (ergative, figuratively) To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally.
- (ergative) To (cause to) decay, to decompose.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To give in or give up: relent, concede, surrender.
- (intransitive, of a machine, computer, vehicle, etc.) To stop functioning.
- (intransitive) To fail, especially socially or for political reasons.
- (intransitive) To unexpectedly collapse, physically or in structure.
- (ergative, figuratively) To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of.
- collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
- make ineffective
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- stop operating or functioning
- lose control of one's emotions
- cause to fall or collapse
- fall apart
noun
verb
- To divide into three parts, especially to divide into thirds.
- (firearms) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
- To reduce by one third; especially, kill one third of (a group of people).
adj
noun
verb
noun
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- make a division or separation
- perform a division
- move or break apart
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
noun
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- 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
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- 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.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") 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.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
noun
adj
verb
- break up into small pieces for food preparation
- hurt the feelings of
- injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
- damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
- (intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
- (transitive, figurative) To harm or injure somebody's feelings or self-esteem.
- (intransitive) To become bruised.
- (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
- (transitive) To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
- (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.
- (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
noun
verb
- cut into small pieces
- walk daintily
- make less severe or harsh
- (transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- (transitive) To make less; to make small.
- (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
- (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
- (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
- (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
noun
- food chopped into small bits
- (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
- (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
- (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
- (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
- (UK, slang, uncountable) Something worthless; rubbish.
- (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
verb
- To divide into two equal parts.
- (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
- To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
- To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
- To act as a spiritualistic medium.
- (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
- act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
adj
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adj
adj
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
- (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
- That divides something into parts.
- (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
noun
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- Serving to separate.