Split
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others. Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind. A split-finger fastball. A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi. The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. To share; to divide. To leave. to separate or break up.
Example sentence: Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
Cleave
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To split or sever something or as if with a sharp instrument.To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting: cleave a path through the ice.To pierce or penetrate.To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.To cling, adhere or stick fast to something; used with to or unto.To be faithful.