Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 134
Splendent (a.) Very conspicuous; illustrious. "Great and splendent fortunes." -- Sir H. Wotton.
Splendid (a.) 有光彩的；燦爛的；壯麗的；輝煌的；顯著的；傑出的；【口】極好的；令人極其滿意的 Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.
Splendid (a.) Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.
Splendid (a.) Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.
Splendid (a.) Having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous].
Splendid (a.) Very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind" [syn: excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid].
Splendid (a.) Characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" [syn: brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid].
Splendid (a.) (Formal) (C1) 極佳的，非常好的；華麗的；壯麗的 Excellent, or beautiful and impressive.
// We had splendid food/ a splendid holiday/ splendid weather.
// You look splendid in that outfit.
See also: Resplendent
Resplendent (a.) (Literary) 輝煌的；燦爛的；華麗的 Having a very bright or beautiful appearance.
// The queen's resplendent purple robes.
// I saw Anna at the other end of the room, resplendent in a red cocktail dress.
Splendidious (a.) Splendid. [Obs.]
Splendidly (adv.) In a splendid manner; magnificently.
Splendidly (adv.) Extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously" [syn: excellently, magnificently, splendidly, famously].
Splendidly (adv.) In an impressively beautiful manner; "the Princess was gorgeously dressed" [syn: gorgeously, splendidly, resplendently, magnificently].
Splendidness (n.) The quality of being splendid.
Splendidous (a.) Splendid. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Splendiferous (a.) Splendor-bearing; splendid. -- Bale (1538). "A splendiferous woman." -- Haliburton. [Now used humorously.]
Splendiferous (a.) Having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous].
Splendor (n.) 光輝；光彩 [U]；壯麗；壯觀；輝煌 [U] [C]；顯赫；傑出 [U] Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. -- B. Jonson.
Splendor (n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." -- Shak.
Splendor (n.) Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.
Syn: Luster; brilliancy; magnifience; gorgeousness; display; showiness; pomp; parade; grandeur. Splendrous
Splendor (n.) A quality that outshines the usual [syn: luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendour].
Splendor (n.) The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness].
Splendrous (a.) Alt. of Splendorous.
Splendorous (a.) Splendid. -- Drayton.
Splenetic (a.) 脾臟的；容易發怒的；壞心眼的 Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." -- G. Eliot.
You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic? -- Pope.
Syn: Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful.
Splenetic (n.) 易怒的人；脾氣壞的人 A person affected with spleen.
Splenetic (a.) Of or relating to the spleen [syn: splenic, splenetic, lienal].
Splenetic (a.) Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish].
Splenetical (a.) Splenetic.
Splenetically (adv.) In a splenetical manner.
Splenial (a.) (Anat.) Designating the splenial bone.
Splenial (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.
Splenial bone (Anat.), A thin splintlike bone on the inner side of the proximal portion of the mandible of many vertebrates.
Splenial (n.) (Anat.) The splenial bone.
Splenic (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein.
Splenic apoplexy or Splenic fever. (Med.) See Anthrax, n., 3.
Splenic (a.) Of or relating to the spleen [syn: splenic, splenetic, lienal].
Splenical (a.) Splenic.
Splenish (a.) Spleenish. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Splenitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the spleen.
Splenitis (n.) Inflammation of the spleen.
Splenitive (a.) Splenetic. -- Shak.
Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash. -- T. N. Page.
Splenium (n.) (Anat.) The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.
Splenius (n.) [NL.] (Anat.) A flat muscle of the back of the neck.
Splenius (n.) Either of two flat muscles that extend from the upper vertebrae to the base of the skull and serve to rotate or flex or extend the head and neck [syn: splenius, splenius muscle].
Splenization (n.) (Med.) A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.
Splenocele (n.) (Med.) Hernia formed by the spleen.
Splenography (n.) A description of the spleen.
Splenoid (a.) (Anat.) Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.
Splenology (n.) The branch of science which treats of the spleen.
Splenotomy (n.) (Anat.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen.
Splenotomy (n.) (Med.) An incision into the spleen; removal of the spleen by incision.
Splent (n.) See Splent.
Splent (n.) See Splent coal, below.
Splent coal, An inferior kind of cannel coal from Scotch collieries; -- called also splent, splint, and splint coal.
Spleuchan (n.) [Gael. spliuchan.] A pouch, as for tobacco. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Splice (n.) 接合；疊接；【口】結婚 A junction or joining made by splicing.
Spliced (imp. & p. p.) of Splice.
Splicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splice.
Splice (v. t.) 接合；疊接；【口】使結合；使結婚 To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
Splice (v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
Splice (v. t.) To unite in marrige. [Slang]
Splice grafting.ee under Grafting.
To splice the main brace (Naut.), To give out, or drink, an extra allowance of spirits on occasion of special exposure to wet or cold, or to severe fatigue; hence, to take a dram.
Splice (n.) A junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together; "the break was due to an imperfect splice" [syn: splice, splicing].
Splice (n.) Joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together [syn: lap joint, splice].
Splice (v.) Join the ends of; "splice film."
Splice (v.) Perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, wed, tie, splice].
Splice (v.) Join together so as to form new genetic combinations; "splice genes.
Splice (v.) Join by interweaving strands; "Splice the wires.
Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
Spline (n.) A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.
Spline (n.) A flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines
Spline (n.) A thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat, spline].
Splining (a.) Of or pertaining to a spline.
Splint (v. t.) A piece split off; a splinter.
Splint (v. t.) A thin piece of wood, or other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.
Splint (v. t.) A splint bone.
Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Splint (v. t.) One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
Splint (v. t.) Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
Splinted (imp. & p. p.) of Splint.
Splinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splint.
Splint (v. t.) To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
Splint (v. t.) To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
Splintered (imp. & p. p.) of Splinter.
Splintering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splinter.
Splinter (v. t.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy. -- Prescott.
Splinter (v. t.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. -- Bp. Wren.
Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces.
Splinter (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
Splinter bar. (a) A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs.
Splinter bar. (b) The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.
Splinter (n.) A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers" [syn: splinter, sliver].
Splinter (v.) Withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" [syn: secede, splinter, break away].
Splinter (v.) Divide into slivers or splinters [syn: sliver, splinter].
Splinter (v.) Break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" [syn: splinter, sliver].
Splinterproof (a.) (Mil.) Proof against the splinters, or fragments, of bursting shells.
Splinterproof (a.) Resistant to shattering or splintering; "shatterproof automobile windows" [syn: shatterproof, splinterless, splinterproof].
Splintery (a.) Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.
Splintery (a.) Subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces.
Splintery (a.) Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards" [syn: splintery, slivery].
Split (imp. & p. p.) of Split.
Splitted () of Split.
Splitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Split.
Split (v. t.) 劈開；切開；撕裂，使破裂；分擔；分享；分得；把……劃分 [（+up）]；使分離；使不團結；【核】使（原子）產生核分裂；【俚】離開；溜走 To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
Cold winter split the rocks in twain. -- Dryden.
Split (v. t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. -- Boyle.
Split (v. t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. [Colloq.] -- South.
Split (v. t.) (Chem.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
Split (v. i.) 被劈開，被切開；裂開；爆裂；被撕裂；破裂；分裂；斷絕關係；離婚 [（+up/ into/ with）]；【口】分享所得 [（+between/ with）]；【美】（比賽）打成平局；【俚】離開；開小差；溜走 To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
Split (v. i.) To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
The ship splits on the rock. -- Shak.
Split (v. i.) To separate into parties or factions. [Colloq.]
Split (v. i.) To burst with laughter. [Colloq.]
Each had a gravity would make you split. -- Pope.
Split (v. i.) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. [Slang] -- Thackeray.
Split (v. i.) (Blackjack) To divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
Split (v. i.) To leave; to depart (from a place or gathering); as, let's split. [Slang]
To split on a rock, to fail; to to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.
Split (n.) [C] 裂縫，裂痕；分裂；分割；（分出的）派系；水果冰淇淋；半瓶汽水；半杯酒；【口】一份，份額；（舞蹈，體操中的）劈腿 [the P] A crack, or longitudinal fissure.
Split (n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. [Colloq.]
Split (n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
Split (n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
Split (n.) (Faro) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
Split (n.) (Finance) The substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
Split (n.) (Blackjack) The division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created. See split[6], v. i.
Split (a.) （縱向地）裂開的，劈開的；分裂的；分離的 Divided; cleft.
Split (a.) (Bot.) Divided deeply; cleft.
Split (a.) (Exchanges) (a) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price; -- said of an order, sale, etc.
Split (a.) (Exchanges) (b) Of quotations, given in sixteenth, quotations in eighths being regular; as, 103/16 is a split quotation.
Split (a.) (Exchanges) (c) (London Stock Exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
Split pease, Hulled pease split for making soup, etc.
Split pin (Mach.), A pin with one end split so that it may be spread open to secure it in its place.
Split pulley, A parting pulley. See under Pulley.
Split ring, A ring with overlapped or interlocked ends which may be sprung apart so that objects, as keys, may be strung upon the ring or removed from it.
Split ticket, A ballot in which a voter votes for a portion of the candidates nominated by one party, candidates of other parties being substituted for those omitted. [U.S.]
Split (n.) 史普利特（Split），是一座位於地中海畔、亞得里亞海東岸的克羅埃西亞南部港市。市內人口約有18萬（2001年調查），是達爾馬提亞地區最大都市，也是克羅埃西亞第二大城。同時，史普利特亦是區內最古老的城市之一，若以古羅馬戴克里先宮始建造期（305年）起計算，該市已有1700年歷史。
Is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia, with about 200,000 people living in its urban area. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the Adriatic islands and the Apennine peninsula.
Compare: Damaged
Damaged (a.) Changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed;
defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched;
storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
Damaged (a.) Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.
Syn: broken.
Damaged (a.) Being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.
Syn: discredited.
Damaged (a.) Made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished.
Split (a.) Having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations" -- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" [syn: disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split].
Split (a.) (Especially of wood) Cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace."
Split (n.) Extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back).
Split (n.) A bottle containing half the usual amount.
Split (n.) A promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded his split before they disbanded."
Split (n.) A lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log."
Split (n.) An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear].
Split (n.) An old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea.
Split (n.) A dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts.
Split (n.) (Tenpin bowling) A divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame."
Split (n.) An increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock" [syn: split, stock split, split up].
Split (n.) The act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip, split].
Split (n.) Division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy" [syn: schism, split].
Split (v.) Separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unify, unite].
Split (v.) Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: cleave, split, rive].
Split (v.) Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" [syn: separate, part, split up, split, break, break up].
Split (v.) Go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" [syn: separate, part, split].
Split (v.) Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst" [syn: burst, split, break open].
Chunker
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Split
A program like Unix's "split" which breaks an input file into parts, usually of a pre-set size, e.g. the maximum size that can fit on a floppy. The parts can then be assembled with a dechunker, which is usually just the chunker in a different mode.
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Splitfeet (n. pl.) (Zool.) The Fissipedia.
Compare: Pintail
Pintail (n.) (Zool.) A northern duck ({Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.
Pintail (n.) (Zool.) The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky Mountains ({Pedioc[ae]tes phasianellus); -- called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.
Split-tail (n.) (Zool.) A california market fish ({Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family.
Split-tail (n.) The pintail duck.
Splitter (n.) One who, or that which, splits.
Splitter (n.) A worker who splits fish and removes the backbone.
Splitter (n.) A taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics [syn: splitter, divider] [ant: lumper].
Splitter (n.) A laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences [syn: rail-splitter, splitter].
Split-tongued (a.) (Zool.) Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
Splotch (n.) A spot; a stain; a daub. -- R. Browning.
Splotch (n.) An irregularly shaped spot [syn: blotch, splodge, splotch].
Splotch (v.) Blotch or spot.
Splotchy (a.) Covered or marked with splotches.
Splurge (n.) A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display. [Slang, U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Splurge (v. i.) To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory. [Slang, U.S.]
Splurge (n.) An ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
Splurge (n.) Any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge].
Splurge (v.) Indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV" [syn: splurge, fling].
Splurge (v.) Be showy or ostentatious.
Spluttered (imp. & p. p.) of Splutter.
Spluttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splutter.
Splutter (v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter. [Colloq.] -- Carleton.
Splutter (n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking. [Colloq.]
Splutter (n.) The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, splutter, sputtering].
Splutter (n.) An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) [syn: sputter, splutter].
Splutter (v.) Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage [syn: sputter, splutter].
Splutter (v.) Spit up in an explosive manner [syn: splutter, sputter, spit out].