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"SPLITS" is a plural of: split. |
Date "SPLITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Fabrics woven two, three, or more in the width and later separated, one or two empty dents usually being left to indicate the cutting line. Fraying of the edges may be prevented by the use of a leno edge or other suitable means. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | In mine ventilation, airways connected in parallel. (references) |
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Crosswords: SPLITS |
| English words defined with "SPLITS": breaker ♦ caltrop, chromatid ♦ devil's weed, division ♦ earthstar ♦ ferment, fermentation, fission, flag, flagstone ♦ Geastrum, Geastrum coronatum, genus Geastrum ♦ hyaluronidase, Hyazyme ♦ idealisation, idealization ♦ ledgeman, legume ♦ morula ♦ nuclear fission ♦ pepsin, Pseudocolus fusiformis ♦ rail-splitter ♦ Sand flag, Schizocarp, Septicidal, splitter, spreading factor, stinky squid ♦ Tribulus terestris, Triploblastic ♦ variance. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SPLITS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (splice). |
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Screenplays | If it splits in half, there'll be two! (Excel Saga; writing credit: Hideyuki Kurata; Yôsuke Kuroda) Suppose the Macedo trench splits open under the ocean? (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 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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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Peanut splits heading for peanut oil and peanut butter. Credit: USDA. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Stephane Mallarme | The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | 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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| "SPLITS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 57.59% of the time. "SPLITS" is used about 191 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 (plural) | 57.59% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 42.41% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Total | 100.00% | 191 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SPLITS": do the splits. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "SPLITS": quasi-splits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SPLITS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ã§åœ°é¢ãŒè£‚ã‘ã‚‹ (the earthquake splits the ground open). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itssplay tecidos fabricados lado a lado. (various references) разделÑть (demarcate, dispart, disunite, divide, part, partake, participate, partition, separates, share in). (various references) telas separadas tejidas simultáneamente al ancho del telar. (various references) bacaklarını dümdüz açarak eÄŸilme hareketi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SPLITS": resplits. (additional references) | |
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"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, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SPLITS" (pronounced spli"ts) |
| 4 | -l i" t s | blitz, glitz, lits, slits. |
| 3 | -i" t s | acquits, admits, befits, bits, brits, britts, chits, commits, emits, fits, Frits, fritts, Fritz, grits, hits, its, kits, knits, mitts, omits, permits, pits, quits, Ritz, sits, skits, spits, Spitz, submits, transmits, wits, writs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-p-s-s-t" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-p-s-s-t" | |
+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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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