SPLITS

"SPLITS" is a plural of: split.

Date "SPLITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Industry

Mining

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Crosswords: SPLITS

Swedish (splice).

If it splits in half, there'll be two! (Excel Saga; writing credit: Hideyuki Kurata; Y�suke Kuroda)

Suppose the Macedo trench splits open under the ocean? (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White)

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968)

Pimple Splits the Difference (1916)

Learning to Do Splits (1898)

Splits (1999)

Banana Splits (1987)

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Books

• Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears (reference)

• Akali Dal in Punjab Politics: Splits and Mergers (reference)

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Periodicals

• Grayfire Stock Splits (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Banana Splits & Friends (reference)

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High Tech

• Monster Cable PFD 34A PowerFuse 3-4 Distribution Splits Three 4 Gauge Inputs to Four 8 Gauge Individually Fused Outputs 3-4 AWG to 4-8 AWG (AGU) (reference)

• Monster Cable PS2-2 PowerSplit 2 Power Distribution System Splits 1/0 or 2 AWG into three 4 AWG Cables 2 AWG into three 4 AWG split (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Peanut splits heading for peanut oil and peanut butter. Credit: USDA.

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Splits started up the sheathing from the rusted nails.

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Civil Liberties

Cameroon

However, in past years, the Government has been suspected widely of fomenting splits in the opposition parties. (references)

Economic History

Zimbabwe

Splits soon developed, however. (references)

Ecuador

Frequent internal splits have produced extreme factionalism. (references)

Political Rights

Gabon

Ideological splits and rivalries have reduced the effectiveness of the PGP. The percentages of women and minorities in government and politics do not correspond to their percentages of the population; however, there are no restrictions on the participation of women and minorities in politics. (references)

Worker Rights

Moldova

Dissatisfaction within GFTU has resulted in several splits within the organization; however, the resulting splinter groups have been unsuccessful in forming new independent unions. (references)

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Expression using "SPLITS": do the splits. Additional references.

Ending with "SPLITS": quasi-splits.

Bulgarian 

шпагат. (various references)

Danish

mere end en vævebane med skåret kant. (various references)

Dutch

splitgeweven doek. (various references)

French

tissus tissés simultanément, coins. (various references)

German

Reste (carryovers, leavings, leftovers, oddments, odds and ends, pickings, remainders, remains, remnants, residuals, residues, ruins, scrapings, scraps). (various references)

Greek 

σπλιτ. (various references)

Hungarian

spárgát csinál (to do the splits), angolspárga (normal splits, side split, side splits). (various references)

Italian

scissioni, frammenti (scraps). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

地震で地面が裂ける (the earthquake splits the ground open). (various references)

Pig Latin

itssplay

Portuguese

tecidos fabricados lado a lado. (various references)

Russian 

разделять (demarcate, dispart, disunite, divide, part, partake, participate, partition, separates, share in). (various references)

Spanish

telas separadas tejidas simultáneamente al ancho del telar. (various references)

Turkish

bacaklarını dümdüz açarak eğilme hareketi. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "SPLITS": resplits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SPLITS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esplins, seplets, slpit, spaits, spilites, spiths, splite, splitt, Splitz, sploit, splot, supalite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lisps, lists, silts, slips, slipt, slits, spilt, spits, split.

-2 letters: lips, lisp, list, lits, piss, pits, psis, psst, silt, sips, sits, slip, slit, spit, tils, tips.

-3 letters: its, lip, lis, lit, pis, pit, psi, sip, sis, sit, til, tip, tis.

-4 letters: is, it, li, pi, si, ti.

+1 letter: pastils, pistils, pistols, spilths, spitals, splints, stipels, tipless.

+2 letters: apostils, epistles, misspelt, palmists, pistoles, pithless, pitiless, plastics, plastids, plenists, pollists, poloists, psalmist, resplits, simplest, simplist, slipouts, spittles, stipples, stipules, topsails, topsoils.

+3 letters: alpinists, displants, epiblasts, epistlers, epistyles, helistops, hospitals, isopleths, lapidists, lickspits, limpsiest, lipsticks, lopsticks, mileposts, misplants, panelists, pastelist, pastilles, phallists, pilasters, pilotless, pisolites, plaisters, plashiest, plastisol, playlists, playsuits, plushiest, pointless, polemists, politesse, populists, printless, psalmists, psaltries, ptyalisms, pugilists, shoplifts, simplists, slapstick, sleepiest, slipknots, slippiest, sloppiest, solipsist, spikelets, spitballs, splinters, splitters, spoliates, spritsail, stapelias, stipplers, sulphites, tailspins, tieclasps.