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Quote:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.[Jacob August Riis]Definitions of: splitDefinition: To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain or layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.Definition: To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. Definition: To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. Definition: To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. Definition: A crack, rent, or longitudinal fissure. Definition: A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. Definition: A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. Definition: One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses. Definition: A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn. Definition: Any of the three or four strips into which osiers are commonly cleft for certain kinds of work; -- usually in pl. Definition: Any of the dents of a reed. Definition: Any of the air currents in a mine formed by dividing a larger current. Definition: Short for Split shot or split stroke. Definition: The feat of going down to the floor so that the legs extend in a straight line, either with one on each side or with one in front and the other behind. Definition: A small bottle (containing about half a pint) of some drink; -- so called as containing half the quantity of the customary smaller commercial size of bottle; also, a drink of half the usual quantity; a half glass. Definition: The substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as, a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split. Definition: The division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player who chooses to split is obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created. See split{6}, v.i. |
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