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1. split -- (extending the legs at right angles to the trunks (one in front and the other in back)).
2. split -- (a bottle containing half the usual amount).
3. split -- (a promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded his split before they disbanded").
4. split -- (a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log").
5. rip, rent, snag, split, tear -- (an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings").
6. Split -- (an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea).
7. split -- (a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts).
8. split -- ((tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame").
9. split, stock split, split up -- (an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock").
10. rent, rip, split -- (the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip").
11. schism, split -- (division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy").

1. divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up -- (separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I").
2. cleave, split, rive -- (separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone").
3. separate, part, split up, split, break, break up -- (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up").
4. separate, part, split -- (go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party").
5. burst, split, break open -- (break open or apart suddenly; "The bubble burst").

1. split -- (being divided or separated; "split between love and hate").
2. disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split -- (having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "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").
3. split -- (broken or burst apart longitudinally; "after the thunderstorm we found a tree with a split trunk"; "they tore big juicy chunks from the heart of the split watermelon").
4. cut, split -- (having a long rip or tear; "a split lip").
5. split -- ((especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace").

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