splitting
very fast or rapid.
Usually splittings. a part or fragment that has been split off from something: Some cavemen made their smaller tools from the splittings of stone.
Origin of splitting
1Other words from splitting
- an·ti·split·ting, adjective
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How to use splitting in a sentence
Shesterkin is splitting time with 24-year-old netminder Alex Georgiev.
In the home of ‘The King,’ the Capitals get served with a second straight loss | Samantha Pell | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostThe catalyst works by splitting molecules of CO2 into the carbon and oxygen atoms from which they’re made.
A new catalyst turns greenhouse gas into jet fuel | Maria Temming | January 27, 2021 | Science News For StudentsCollecting large amounts of CO2 from the air is very tricky, and splitting water to make hydrogen also uses a lot of power.
Scientists Just Created a Catalyst That Turns CO2 Into Jet Fuel | Edd Gent | January 3, 2021 | Singularity HubClemson and Notre Dame splitting will make it hard to leave either out.
College Football Playoff scenarios: Who’s already in and who needs help this weekend | Patrick Stevens | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostIn other words, ticket-splitting didn’t vary that much within each state and was, in most cases, pretty minimal.
Split-Ticket Voters Are A Small Group, But They Could Decide The Georgia Runoffs | Nathaniel Rakich (nathaniel.rakich@fivethirtyeight.com) | December 17, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFumbleroooohski…'” (39) “'Look at me, ungh, splitting my own seam, oohh… going deep.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits | Emily Shire | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen it came to shooting the famous parting of the Red Sea, Ridley Scott elected to show a tsunami splitting the waters.
Christian Bale: One Man's Moses Is Another Man's Terrorist | Candida Moss, Joel Baden | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWas it a classic case of vote splitting between the four actors or ARE THE EMMYS HOMOPHOBIC???
The Biggest Emmys Snubs and Surprises: 'Modern Family,' McConaughey, and More | Kevin Fallon | August 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairA 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.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIf you fasten it with stout tacks, it will be strong enough, and there will be no danger of splitting the wood of the ends.
Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880 | VariousRigid care has been taken to exclude such dramatic pieces which are fittingly described as "side-splitting farces."
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | Various
British Dictionary definitions for splitting
/ (ˈsplɪtɪŋ) /
(of a headache) intolerably painful; acute
(of the head) assailed by an overpowering unbearable pain
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
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