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split
Verb
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If a group of people splits or is split, the people don't agree, so the group becomes more than one group.
Female voters overall are evenly split between Obama (48%) and McCain (47%).
A year after splitting with his wife, he's back in New Zealand.
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If you split something, you separate, cut, or break it into different parts.
East and West Germany were split apart at the end of World War II.
She split the wood in half.
They split into two teams.
The two agreed to split the bill.
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If you split your skin, you cut it by hitting it.
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If you split, you leave.
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A splitting headache is a very painful headache.
split
Noun
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A split between two groups is a strong disagreement.
Time brought about the split between Moscow and Beijing.
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A split in something, is a place where it breaks into two or where there is a long thing opening.
The split in the wood had grown wider over the years.
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If you do the splits, you spread your legs so that your feet are pointing away from each other.
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A kind of ice cream dessert.
secondary
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adjective
being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher
a secondary source
a secondary issue
secondary streams
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adjective
depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
a secondary infection
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adjective
belonging to a lower class or rank
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adjective
not of major importance
played a secondary role in world events
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noun
the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
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noun
(= secondary coil)
coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
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adjective
(= lowly, petty)
inferior in rank or status
the junior faculty
a lowly corporal
petty officialdom
a subordinate functionary