📖 S — The English dictionary · page 81

splendid — Everyday, meaning 1: Very beautiful, grand and impressive: «a splendid palace».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, a little old-fashioned) Very good; excellent: «What a splendid idea!».↗ Example: What a splendid idea!↗ · The palace had a splendid golden gate.↗ · Toad said Toad Hall was the most splendid house on the river.↗ · We had a splendid day at the beach.↗ · The peacock spread its splendid tail.↗ · «Splendid!» said the teacher.↗ «Full marks.»↗ · How splendid and light it is!↗

splendidly — Everyday, meaning 1: Very well; excellently.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a grand, rich and beautiful way: splendidly dressed.↗ Example: You did splendidly in the race!↗ · The hall was splendidly decorated for the party.↗ · The plan worked splendidly.↗ · The king was splendidly dressed in gold.↗ · Everything is going splendidly, thank you.↗ · The roses grew splendidly this summer.↗ · Do you see how splendidly the tree has grown?↗

splendor — Everyday, meaning 1: Splendor is great beauty, grandeur and a bright, grand show.↗ (US spelling of «splendour»).↗ Example: With what splendor he filled that dismal dwelling!↗ · «Now the splendor will begin again,» thought the Fir.↗ · It illuminates the splendor of all lights, and causes a supply of influence to emanate from the Prince of countenances.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendor of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Second Path is that of the Illuminating Intelligence it is the Crown of Creation, the Splendor of the Unity, equaling it, and it is exalted above every bead, and named by the Kabbalists the Second Glory.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

splendour — Everyday, meaning 1: Splendour is great beauty, grandeur and a bright, grand show.↗ Example: What splendour and magnificence he saw there!↗ · She appeared suddenly, in all her splendour.↗ · And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for splendour and for beauty.↗ (Torah EXO.28.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty.↗ (Torah EXO.28.40, JPS 1917)↗ · It illuminates the splendour . of all the lights, and causes a supply of influence to emanate from the .↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Out of the north cometh golden splendour, about God is terrible majesty.↗ (Writings JOB.37.22, JPS 1917)↗ · The glorious splendour of Thy majesty, and Thy wondrous works, will I rehearse.↗ (Writings PSA.145.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was perfect, through My splendour which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.14, JPS 1917)↗

splice — Everyday, meaning 1: To splice two ropes or wires means to join their ends together firmly, often by weaving the strands into each other.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To splice film, tape or video means to join two pieces so they play one after the other.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In science, to splice genes means to cut and join pieces of DNA.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A splice is the place where two things have been joined.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (UK, informal) «Get spliced» means to get married.↗ Example: The sailor spliced the two ropes so they would not slip apart.↗ · We spliced our video clips together to make the class film.↗ · The electrician spliced the broken wires.↗ · Scientists can splice a gene from one plant into another.↗ · You can hardly see the splice in the rope.↗ · Grandad joked that he and Gran got spliced fifty years ago.↗ · The editor spliced in a funny clip at the end.↗

splint — Everyday, meaning 1: A straight, stiff piece of wood, plastic or metal tied to a broken or hurt arm, leg or finger to keep it still.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To put a splint on an injured body part.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A thin strip of wood.↗ Example: The nurse put a splint on my broken finger.↗ · His leg was in a splint after the fall.↗ · In first aid we learnt to make a splint from a rolled-up magazine.↗ · Keep the arm still with a splint and call for help.↗ · The vet splinted the dog's injured leg.↗ · She had to wear a wrist splint for three weeks.↗ · A splint stops the bone from moving.↗

splinter — Everyday, meaning 1: A splinter is a small, sharp, thin piece of wood, glass or metal that has broken off, especially one that gets stuck in your skin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To splinter means to break into small sharp pieces.↗ Example: I got a splinter from the wooden fence.↗ · Mum took the splinter out with tweezers.↗ · Wash the skin after removing a splinter.↗ · The old door splintered when it was hit.↗ · Wear shoes on the wooden deck to avoid splinters.↗ · Sand the wood smooth so there are no splinters.↗ · A splinter of glass was in the carpet.↗ · The splinter in my finger hurt a lot.↗ · It did not hurt him at all, but the splinter was there all the same.↗ · For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten into splinters, and the little house into chips.↗ (Prophets AMO.6.11, JPS 1917)↗

split — Everyday, meaning 1: To split is to divide something into parts or groups: split the class into teams.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To split is to break or tear along a line: the bag split.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To split something is to share it: split a sandwich.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A split is a crack or tear; «the splits» is a stretch with legs straight out in a line.↗ Example: Ben splits 6 cards equally into 3 boxes.↗ How many cards go in each box?↗ · 20 children split into 4 equal teams.↗ · Mia and Zoe split 14 cherries equally.↗ · Let's split the sandwich in half.↗ · My bag split and my books fell out.↗ · The teacher split us into groups of three.↗ · Can you do the splits?↗ · The old wood split down the middle.↗ · The third says, "Split open, O Earth! disappear, O sister!"↗ · Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.↗ (Writings SNG.6.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy mouth is comely; thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.↗ (Writings SNG.4.3, JPS 1917)↗

splitter — Everyday, meaning 1: A device or tool that splits something, like a log splitter or a cable splitter that lets one signal go to two machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, informal) A person who leaves a group or party to form a new one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) In sorting and naming things, a splitter divides them into many small groups (opposite: a lumper).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (cricket, baseball) A type of throw or bowl that makes the ball drop or move.↗ Example: We used a headphone splitter to share the music.↗ · Grandad uses a log splitter to chop wood.↗ · The TV splitter sends the signal to two rooms.↗ · The splitters left the party and started their own.↗ · Some scientists are lumpers; others are splitters who name many species.↗ · He pitched a splitter and struck out the batter.↗

splitting — Everyday, meaning 1: Splitting means breaking or cutting something into parts right now, often along a line.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Splitting means sharing or dividing something between people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Splitting up means separating, like a group splitting up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A «splitting headache» is a very bad headache.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Splitting with laughter means laughing so hard that it feels as if you might burst.↗ Example: We are splitting the pizza into eight slices.↗ · Splitting 36 into 30 and 6 makes it easy to add.↗ · Dad is splitting logs for the fire.↗ · The class is splitting into four groups.↗ · Splitting the sweets equally, each child gets 5.↗ · I have a splitting headache.↗ · The rock is splitting because of the ice inside it.↗

splutter — Everyday, meaning 1: To speak quickly and with difficulty, making spitting sounds, because you are angry, shocked or embarrassed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To cough or spit noisily, as when choking on food or water.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of an engine or fire) To make a series of short, uneven popping noises.↗ Example: "But — but — that's not fair!" he spluttered.↗ · She spluttered when the water went up her nose.↗ · The old car spluttered and stopped.↗ · The candle spluttered in the wind.↗ · I spluttered with laughter at the joke.↗ · The engine spluttered into life.↗ · "What do you mean?" spluttered the Prince.↗

spoil — Everyday, meaning 1: To spoil something means to ruin it or make it worse.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Food spoils when it goes bad and is no longer safe to eat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To spoil a child means to give them everything they want, so they may expect too much.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To spoil also means to treat someone kindly in a special way.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Spoil can also mean goods taken by force, such as loot after a battle or raid.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Goods taken from people or towns that were defeated, such as loot after a battle.↗ Example: The rain spoiled our picnic.↗ · Don't tell me the ending, you'll spoil it!↗ · Milk spoils quickly if you leave it in the sun.↗ · His grandparents spoil him with sweets.↗ · Don't be a spoilsport; come and play.↗ · One mean comment spoiled her day.↗ · Throw away food that has spoiled.↗ · Mum spoiled us with pancakes on Sunday.↗ · The Ass was asked to divide the spoil.↗ · And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.↗ (Torah NUM.31.11, JPS 1917)↗ · But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.↗ (Torah DEU.3.7, JPS 1917)↗ · The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.↗ (Torah GEN.34.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!↗ (Prophets JER.48.3, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?↗ (Prophets JDG.5.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.↗ (Prophets 2SA.12.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.↗ (Torah NUM.31.11, JPS 1917) · The Ass was asked to divide the spoil.↗ (The Aesop for Children / With pictures by Milo Winter) · But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.↗ (Torah DEU.3.7, JPS 1917)

spoiler — Everyday, meaning 1: A spoiler is information that tells you what happens in a story, film or game, especially the ending, before you have seen it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A spoiler on a car or plane is a flat part that changes the air flow to keep it steady or slow it down.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (politics) A spoiler is a candidate who cannot win but takes votes away from another candidate.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A spoiler is someone who spoils things for others.↗ Example: No spoilers, please, I haven't finished the book!↗ · Spoiler alert: the wolf does not get the pigs.↗ · My brother told me the ending, what a spoiler.↗ · The racing car has a big spoiler at the back.↗ · Planes raise spoilers on the wings to slow down after landing.↗ · This review is spoiler-free.↗ · Don't be a spoiler, let her guess the answer.↗ · A grievous vision is declared unto me: 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.↗ (Prophets ISA.21.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.51.53, JPS 1917)↗ · And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual; (Prophets 1SA.13.17, JPS 1917)↗

spoilt — Everyday, meaning 1: A spoilt child has been given everything they want, so they behave badly when they do not get their way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Spoilt food has gone bad and is not safe to eat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Spoilt means damaged or ruined: a spoilt picture, a spoilt day.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A spoilt vote or ballot paper is filled in wrongly, so it is not counted (UK).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Spoilt for choice» means there are so many good choices that it is hard to pick one.↗ Example: The spoilt boy screamed when he didn't get the biggest present.↗ · The milk was spoilt, so we poured it away.↗ · The rain spoilt our picnic.↗ · Gran spoils the grandchildren rotten.↗ · At the sweet shop we were spoilt for choice.↗ · Of 40 apples, 6 were spoilt, so 34 were good.↗ · His drawing was spoilt by a big ink blot.↗ · "But your bow is spoilt," said the old poet.↗

spoke — Everyday, meaning 1: Spoke is the past form of «speak»: «She spoke to the teacher.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A spoke is one of the thin bars or wires that join the middle (hub) of a wheel to its rim, as on a bike.↗ Example: She spoke very quietly.↗ · I spoke to my teacher about the problem.↗ · He finally spoke up for his friend.↗ · One spoke on my bike wheel is broken.↗ · The spokes of the wheel go from the centre to the edge.↗ · We put beads on the spokes so they clicked when we rode.↗ · He spoke for a long time.↗ · And God spoke unto Noah, saying: (Torah GEN.8.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Cain spoke unto Abel his brother.↗ (Torah GEN.4.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: (Torah EXO.6.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying: (Prophets JOS.4.15, JPS 1917)↗ · My soul failed me when he spoke.↗ (Writings SNG.5.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying: (Prophets ISA.7.10, JPS 1917)↗