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splitting

[ split-ing ]

adjective

  1. being split or causing something to split.
  2. violent or severe, as a headache.
  3. very fast or rapid.


noun

  1. Usually splittings. a part or fragment that has been split off from something:

    Some cavemen made their smaller tools from the splittings of stone.

splitting

/ ˈsplɪtɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (of a headache) intolerably painful; acute
  2. (of the head) assailed by an overpowering unbearable pain
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. psychoanal the Freudian defence mechanism in which an object or idea (or, alternatively, the ego) is separated into two or more parts in order to remove its threatening meaning
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • anti·splitting adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of splitting1

First recorded in 1585–95; split + -ing 2, -ing 1
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Example Sentences

Shesterkin is splitting time with 24-year-old netminder Alex Georgiev.

The catalyst works by splitting molecules of CO2 into the carbon and oxygen atoms from which they’re made.

Collecting large amounts of CO2 from the air is very tricky, and splitting water to make hydrogen also uses a lot of power.

Clemson and Notre Dame splitting will make it hard to leave either out.

In other words, ticket-splitting didn’t vary that much within each state and was, in most cases, pretty minimal.

Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.

Fumbleroooohski…'” (39) “'Look at me, ungh, splitting my own seam, oohh… going deep.

When it came to shooting the famous parting of the Red Sea, Ridley Scott elected to show a tsunami splitting the waters.

Was it a classic case of vote splitting between the four actors or ARE THE EMMYS HOMOPHOBIC???

In the early 2000s, after splitting with his wife of 20 years, Stephenson began devoting more time to his interest in art.

If they see us splitting the breeze down Lost River, they won't look for us to bob up from the opposite quarter to-morrow.

A small miner's pick is useful for cutting out, and splitting portions of slaty rocks; or for obtaining specimens of clays, etc.

The poison of an infectious disease kills by splitting and destroying the nuclei of the body's cells.

If you fasten it with stout tacks, it will be strong enough, and there will be no danger of splitting the wood of the ends.

Rigid care has been taken to exclude such dramatic pieces which are fittingly described as "side-splitting farces."

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