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Split can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

split used as an adjective:

  1. Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
  2. Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

split used as a noun:

  1. The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind.
  2. A split-finger fastball.
    "He’s got a nasty split."
  3. A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
  4. A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
  5. A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
  6. A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
  7. The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
    "In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32"
  8. (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

split used as a verb:

  1. Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
    "He has split his lip."
  2. To share; to divide.
    "We split the money among three people"
  3. To leave.
    "Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party."
  4. to separate or break up.
    "Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is split?

As detailed above, 'split' can be an adjective, a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: He’s got a nasty split.
  2. Noun usage: In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
  3. Verb usage: He has split his lip.
  4. Verb usage: We split the money among three people
  5. Verb usage: Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
  6. Verb usage: Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
  7. Verb usage: Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of split are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of split, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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