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Definition: Splitter |
SplitterNoun1. A worker who splits fish and removes the backbone. 2. A taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics. 3. A laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "splitter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references) |
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Occupations | Splits mica to sheets of specified dimensions and trims defects from mica sheets, using knife: Measures thickness of mica sheets, using dial or caliper-type micrometer, to determine amount of mica to remove. Locates cleavage plane in mica and inserts point of knife between layers. Peels layers of mica from sheets to reduce thickness of sheets. Gauges mica sheets with micrometer to determine amount of mica to remove and to verify thickness of split sheets. Examines mica for defects, such as stains, cracks, or scale and trims defects, using knife. Deposits mica sheets into containers according to size and rejects sheets that fail to meet thickness specifications. Compares mica to templates of parts being produced and deposits mica in container according to part. May measure length of sheets with rule and trim excess mica from sheets, using scissors or knife. May rub edges of mica sheets over sandpaper-covered portion of worktable to locate cleavages in sheets. (references) |
| Tends machine that splits leather or shoe parts to reduce parts to uniform thickness or to cut parts into two or more layers, by any of following methods: (1) Feeds part between rollers that force part against blade. (2) Positions part against machine guides and depresses pedal to force splitting blade against part. (3) Holds part against guide and horizontal band-blade. Turns setscrews or handwheels to adjust blade or rollers as specified. Verifies thickness of parts with specifications, using gauge. May sharpen machine blades. May be designated according to parts split as Ball-Point Splitter (boot & shoe); Heel-Cover Splitter (boot & shoe); Heel splitter (boot & shoe); Heel-Top-Lift Splitter (boot & shoe); Insole-And-Outsole Splitter (boot & shoe); Sole Splitter (boot & shoe). May be designated according to machine tended as Band Splitter (boot & shoe). (references) | |
| Operates saws to cut planks, timbers, or boards into boards of lesser thickness according to work orders: Observes lumber on conveyor as lumber approaches saw to determine cut to be made. Turns handwheels or manipulates levers to adjust distance between feed rolls and set saw for thickness of board to be cut. Depresses levers to control speed of saw and feed rolls. Observes automatic feeding of lumber to saw or pushes end of lumber into feed rolls. May replace dull saw blades, using handtools. May be designated according to type of saw used as Band-Resaw Operator (saw. & plan.; wood. container); Circular-Resaw Operator (saw. & plan.; wood. container); Multiple-Resaw Operator (wood container); Horizontal-Resaw Operator (saw & plan.). (references) | |
| Splits rough diamonds along premarked lines to remove imperfections, such as internal spots and flaws, and to obtain optimum value from stones: Positions diamond in holder and presses diamond-studded tool along premarked lines to make incision for splitting. Places steel blade in incision and taps blade with jeweler's hammer to split stone. (references) | |
| Tends machine to split concrete stone into building blocks resembling ashlar: Sets end stops according to length or width of cut, measuring distance from blade with rule. Positions block under blade and against stops. Depresses pedal to lower blade and split block. Depresses pedal to raise stops and pushes split blocks into storage hopper. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SplitterSynonyms: divider (n), rail-splitter (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: lumper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Splitter |
| Specialty definitions using "splitter": BEARD SPLITTER, block maker, BUZZSAW-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ cordwood-cutter helper ♦ drill-split tool ♦ Ensign-Bickford hot-wire lighter ♦ HAIR SPLITTER ♦ Jones splitter ♦ Michelson interferometer ♦ PPI reflectoscope ♦ QUARRY PLUG-AND-FEATHER DRILLER ♦ ROCK SPLITTER ♦ SCREEN OPERATOR ♦ WHISKER SPLITTER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "splitter": Splint. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Splitter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (chip, Chipping, chippings, flake, fragment, shiver, sliver, slivers, splint, splinter), Hungarian (diamond spark, spark), Swedish (shiver). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Olympische Splitter (1960) Hare Splitter (1948) Sky Splitter (1922) From Rail Splitter to President (1913) Die Splitter der Eisbombe (1985) | |
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 | The "rail splitter" at work repairing the union. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A little game of bagatelle, between Old Abe the rail splitter & Little Mac the gunboat general. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "ADSL Splitter 1" by Gary McCord Commentary: "ADSL Splitter cable with Phone and ADSL Socket." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Splitter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.68% of the time. "Splitter" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.68% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 15.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "splitter": beam splitter ♦ board splitter ♦ log splitter ♦ phase splitter. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "splitter": rail-splitter, side-splitter, word-splitter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
file splitter | 771 | usb splitter | 39 |
splitter | 725 | easy serial splitter video | 37 |
avi splitter | 700 | free mp3 splitter | 34 |
mp3 splitter | 562 | avi free splitter | 33 |
log splitter | 483 | dsl splitter | 30 |
video splitter | 381 | rf splitter | 30 |
mpeg splitter | 331 | joiner mp3 splitter | 28 |
easy splitter video | 275 | splitter vcd | 28 |
movie splitter | 141 | splitter throw | 28 |
mpg splitter | 106 | wave splitter | 26 |
wood splitter | 104 | 2.01 easy splitter video | 26 |
master splitter | 99 | pill splitter | 25 |
avi mpeg splitter | 98 | apple famous splitter | 25 |
divx splitter | 93 | cable tv splitter | 25 |
cable splitter | 83 | easy splitter | 25 |
cool mp3 splitter | 56 | phone line splitter | 24 |
vga splitter | 47 | s video splitter | 24 |
dvd splitter | 44 | adsl splitter | 22 |
wav splitter | 40 | avi file splitter | 21 |
audio splitter | 40 | asf avi mpeg splitter wmv | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "splitter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri që u jep rëndësi gjërave të pavlefshme, dhimbje e rëndë koke. (various references) | |
Arabic | المنفصل زواجيا, المنشق عن, الخائن ل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разколник (dissident, schismatic, secessionist), нещо което разцепва, нещо което разделя. (various references) | |
Chinese | 分离机. (various references) | |
Danish | stråleseparator (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), spaltekniv (board splitter, cleaver, froe, froe-knife, frow, riving knife, spreader wheel), tilbageloebsfordeler (reflux divider, reflux splitter), dikroisk filter (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter). (various references) | |
Dutch | stralensplitser (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), straalverdeler (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), straalsplitser (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), straalsplijter (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), spouwmes (board splitter, cleaver, riving knife, spreader wheel), splijtmes (board splitter, cleaver, riving knife, spreader wheel), refluxverdeler (reflux divider, reflux splitter), kloofmes (board splitter, cleaver, riving knife, spreader wheel), dichroïsch filter (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), bundelsplitser (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), bundelscheider (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter). (various references) | |
Finnish | säteenositin (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), värijakosuodatin (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter). (various references) | |
French | scissionniste, traître, cafard. (various references) | |
German | Splitteinrichtung. (various references) | |
Greek | σχίστησ (cleaver, sliter), χωριστήσ (segregator). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hasogató munkás (cleaver, river). (various references) | |
Italian | separatore di fasci (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), sdoppiatore di fascio (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), ripartitore di riflusso (reflux divider, reflux splitter), filtro dicroico (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter), coltello separatore (board splitter, riving knife, severing implement, spreader wheel). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ハーバード大学 (50% beam splitter, half, half coat, half made, half mirror, half size camera, half swing, half tone, half volley, halfback, halftime, halfway house, harem, harem pants, harmonica, harmonize, harmony, harp, harpoon, harpsichord, harpy, Harvard University, herb, herb tea, hierarchy, high, high octane gasoline, high quality, high-class, high-end, high-grade, highjack, high-key, high-key tone, high-octane, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hijack, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized), 分相機 (phase splitter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハーフミラー (50% beam splitter, half mirror), ぶんそうき (phase splitter). (various references) | |
Manx | skeilteyder (render), scolteyder (chopper, cleaver, gutter, hewer, nutcracker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ittersplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | talhadeira (chisel, gad, hardy), fende ou faz saltar, aquele que racha. (various references) | |
Russian | раскольник (dissenter, dissident, schismatic, secessionist), мелочный человек, аккуратист. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cepidlaka (dryasdust, pedant, prig, square toes, stickler), cepač (chopper). (various references) | |
Spanish | disidente (Bolter, breakaway, dissented, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, maverick, splinter). (various references) | |
Swedish | dikroiskt filter (beam splitter, beamsplitter, dichroic filter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розкольник (dissenter, nonconformist, schismatic, separatist), педант (disciplinarian, martinet, nit-picker, pedagog, pedagogue, pedant, precisian, prig), дріб'язкова людина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tách ra, người chia rẽ cái để tách ra, cái để tẽ ra cơn nhức đầu như búa bổ. (various references) | |
Welsh | holltwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "splitter": splitters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "splitter": hairsplitter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "splitter": hairsplitters. (additional references) | |
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"Splitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slpatter, splite, splited. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "splitter" (pronounced 'Split"ter'): Abutter, Acater, Acquitter, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aflutter, Aglitter, Alabaster, Allotter, Amylobacter, Antitrochanter, Apporter, Atter, Auntter, Auster, Balter, Baxter, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Beplaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Blatter, Blotter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Bunter, Buster, Canaster, Cauter, Cheirepter, Chitter, Chowter, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clotter, Clyster, Coleopter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Concertmeister, Coniroster, Coster, Crater. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: triplets. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: litters, resplit, slitter, spitter, spittle, tilters, tipster, triples, triplet. | |
-2 letters: esprit, lisper, lister, liters, litres, litter, perils, pliers, priest, relist, ripest, sitter, sprite, stipel, stripe, stript, tilers, tilter, titers, titles, titres, tripes, triple, triste. | |
-3 letters: islet, istle, liers, liter, litre, pelts, peril, peris, petit, petti, piers, piles, piste, plier, plies, prest, pries, prise. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: paltriest, portliest, splitters, triplites. | |
+3 letters: fieldstript, graptolites, interplants, paternalist, peristaltic, petrologist, poltergeist, priestliest, protostelic, resplitting, splattering, spluttering, tetraploids, tripletails, triplicates. | |
+4 letters: coleopterist, earsplitting, hairsplitter, interpolates, luteotropins, partialities, particulates, paternalists, persistently, petrologists, poltergeists, postliterate, preliterates, proglottides, proletariats, spectatorial, sprightliest, streptolysin, telegraphist, teleprinters, triplicities. | |
+5 letters: antiparticles, coleopterists, hairsplitters, herpetologist, interpellates, interpolators, lepidopterist, letterspacing, lithotripsies, lithotripters, luteotrophins, metropolitans, multispectral, partibilities, paternalistic, portabilities, precapitalist, pretentiously, pteridologist, recapitulates, repetitiously, replantations, septentrional, spiritualties, stereotypical, streptolysins, supermilitant, telegraphists, temporalities, tetraploidies, thermoplastic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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