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Split Up

Definition: Split Up

Split Up

Noun

1. 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".

Verb

1. Get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months".

2. Separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I".

3. 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. Become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Split Up

Synonyms: stock split (n), break (v), break up (v), carve up (v), come apart (v), dissever (v), divide (v), divorce (v), fall apart (v), part (v), separate (v), split (v). (additional references)
Antonym: unite (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Split Up

Specialty definitions using "split up": ClavieFOLLOW-UP CLERK, fsplitlion foodpencil oresubdivided heading. (references)

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Modern Usage: Split Up

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I think we better split up. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

I'll tell you: we'll split up the week, okay (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

If we split up, I'm going with you guys (Jurassic Park III; writing credit: Peter Buchman)

This'll probably go faster if we split up. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Lets split up. (Scary Movie 2; writing credit: Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans)

Lyrics

So hip up and split up get up (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Split Up

DomainTitle

Books

  • How Not to Split Up (reference)

  • Series Canada 8 Split Up (reference)

  • Sometimes a Family Has to Split Up (A Read Together Book) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Split Up

Expression using "split up": split up the work. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Split Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

split up

7

brandy husband split up

5

anderson kid pamela rock split up

2

beatles split up

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Split Up

Language Translations for "split up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), ndahem (be divided, bust up, disunite, fall into, farewell, secede), çahem (chap, cleave, spring). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وضع حدا (break, extinguish, put a stop to, ring, snuff out, stop, suppress, terminate), ‏تفرق (break up, dissipation, disunion, divide, part, parting, pass off, separate, straggle, strewing, thin), ‏تشعب (bisect, branch, calve, diverge, divergence, fork, offshoot, radiate, ramification, ramify, split), ‏إنفصل (become airborne, break away, break up, break with, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, estrange, segment, separate, sever, sunder, tear oneself away), ‏إنهيار (avalanche, breakdown, collapse, fall, plunge, ruin, shower, slump, smash), ‏إنشقاق (cleavage, desertion, dissent, dissepiment, dissidence, fissure, rent, schism, scission, separation, split, splitting). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), отцепвам (chip off, cut off, release, sliver). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

分裂 (fission, to break up, to divide, to split). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozvod (divorce, divorcement), rozhod, rozejít se (break up, disject, disperse, estrange, fall out, part, separate, sheer off), rozdìlit se (part), rozštípnout (cleave, embowel), přerušit (abort, adjourn, black out, break off, cut off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off). (various references)

   

Danish

  

station hvor et tog adskilles (station at which a train is split up), opdele konnossement (to split up the Bill of Lading), omrangere et tog (to split up a train), krystallen deler sig op i smaa mosaikblokke; der sker en polygonisation (the crystals split up into small crystallites; there occurs polygonization), fast sammenkoblet togdel (train-set that cannot be divided, train-set that cannot be split up). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

station waar een trein wordt gesplitst (station at which a train is split up), splitsen van cognossement (to split up the Bill of Lading), permanent gekoppelde rijtuigen (train-set that cannot be divided, train-set that cannot be split up), onsplitsbaar treinstel (train-set that cannot be divided, train-set that cannot be split up), een trein splitsen (to split up a train), de kristallen vallen uiteen in kleine kristallieten:er treedt polygonisatie op (the crystals split up into small crystallites; there occurs polygonization). (various references)

   

French

  

se scinder (splinter), se séparer, se fendre (split), se diviser (split), se disperser (split), séparation, rupture (split), quitter, mettre fin , fractionner. (various references)

   

German

  

sich trennen (break away, break loose, disengage, diverge, divide, get loose, part, separate, split off, to divide, undock), sich teilen (bisect, break, divide, fork, part), zerteilen (cut up, dissipate, divide, joint, part, to dissipate), zersplittern (dissipate, fragment, shatter, splinter, squander), zerspalten (split), trennen (decollate, detach, differentiate, disconnect, dissociate, dissolve, distinguish, divide, divorce, drag apart, part, pull apart, remove, segregate, separate, separate out, sever, shut off, sift, slit, take away, to decollate, to disassociate, to disconnect, to disjoin, to disrupt, to dissociate, to disunite, to part, to secede, to segregate, to separate, to sever, to sunder, undo, unpick), einteilen (budget, calibrate, detail, divide, divide in, divide up, grade, grade crossing, graduate, organize, plan out, separate, share, to divide in), aufteilen (apportion, break down, carve up, divide, divide out, divide up, divvy up, lay out, parcel, parcel out, partition, share out, slice up, split, to apportion, to split), aufsplittern (splinter), aufspalten (break down, divide up, split, to break down), aufgliedern (analyse, analyze, break down, categorize, dissect, divide, itemize, paragraph, subdivide, to dissect, to subdivide, unbundle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χωρίζω (dissociate oneself from, disunite, divide, divorce, part, separate, separate from, sequester, sever, split, stratify, sunder), διαχωρίζομαι (segregation, separate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מפוצל (divided, forked, ramified, split), ל"תפצל (be split, split). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szétválik (be separated, branch, come apart, split, to break away, to come apart, to come unstuck, to dissever, to diverge, to divide, to split, to split up), széthullás (cascading), felhasogat (to crackle, to log, to split up), elválás (detachment, divorce, parting, separation). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

terbagi (divided, divisible), berbagi (divisible). (various references)

   

Italian

  

suddividere (subdivide), spaccarsi (burst, crack, gape, split), separazione (disconnectedness, disconnection, disestablishment, disjunction, farewell, parting, secession, separation, severance), rottura (breach, break, breakage, breakdown, breaking, burst, disruption, fractiousness, pest, rift, Rive, rupture, severance, split), lasciarsi (leave each other, let oneself), frammentare (fragment, split, subdivide). (various references)

   

Manx

  

scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, start, sunder), cur veih my cheilley. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itsplay upay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

se despica (fissure, rend, Rive, splinter), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раскалываться (cleave), разламываться, разбивать (break up, defeat, demolish, drub, scatter, shatter, smashes, trounce), дележ добычи. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razlaz (breakup), razilaziti se (diverge), razići se (disband, disperse, diverge, fall out). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

partirse (break, leak, split), partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, chop, cleave, come off, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, dole out, drive away, drive off, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, start off, start out, tear, tear up, throw over, walk away), parcelar (break up), dividir en (delimitate, detach). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

separera (fractionate, separate), sönderdela (decompose, disintegrate, dismember, dissever, dissolve), dela (divide, part, partition, portion, separate, share). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarılma (cleavage, split, splitting), taksim etmek (carve up, divide, lot, share out), paylaştırmak (allocate, allot, apportion, distribute, mete out, portion out, serve out, sever, share out, split), paylaştırma (allocation, allotment, apportionment, sharing out), paylaşılmak, parçalanma (being broken, being torn, breakup, crash, disintegration, disjunction, dismemberment, disruption, fragmentation, rent, schism, smash, smash up, split), kopma (breaking away, breaking off, rupture, snap, split, sunder, sunderance), dağıtma (allocation, dealing, delivery, dismantlement, dispensation, dissipation, distributing), boşanma (divorce, split), bölünmek (be divided, be separated, divide, fall into, go to pieces, splinter off, split, split off), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), ayrılma (breakaway, breakup, check out, cleavage, decampment, defection, departure, deviation, disconnection, disconnexion, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divergence, divergency, divorce, excursion, leave taking, leaving, parting, scission, secession, secessional, segregation, separation, sequestration, severance, split, sunder, sunderance, turn off). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розділятися (part, polarize), розділяти (demarcate, detach, disjoint, part, partition, set apart, sever, sunder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Split Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pulpits.

Words within the letters "i-l-p-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: pulpit, pupils, slipup, tulips.

-2 letters: pilus, pulis, pulps, pupil, situp, slipt, spilt, split, tulip, uplit.

-3 letters: lips, lisp, list, lits, litu, lust, pips, pits, plus, puli, pulp, puls, pups, puts, silt, slip, slit, spit, suit, tils, tips, tuis, tups.

-4 letters: its, lip, lis, lit, pip, pis, pit, piu, psi, pul, pup, pus, put, sip.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-p-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: populist, pulpiest.

 

+2 letters: populists, suppliant.

 

+3 letters: populistic, septupling, suppletion, suppletive, suppliants, supplicant, supplicate.

 

+4 letters: populations, postnuptial, superpolite, supplanting, suppletions, suppliantly, supplicants, supplicated, supplicates.

 

+5 letters: multipurpose, popularities, propitiously, superplastic, supplicating, supplication, supplicatory.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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