splitting

«splitting» in Mova's school dictionary: breaking or cutting something into parts right now, often… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, -ing form of split (split, splits, split, splitting); adjective (a splitting headache)

meaning for a pupil

1) Splitting means breaking or cutting something into parts right now, often along a line. tree →

2) Splitting means sharing or dividing something between people. tree →

3) Splitting up means separating, like a group splitting up. tree →

4) A «splitting headache» is a very bad headache. tree →

5) Splitting with laughter means laughing so hard that it feels as if you might burst. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, splitting a number means breaking it into parts (partitioning): 47 is 40 + 7; splitting things equally is dividing. In everyday life, people split the bill or split a pizza. In science, cells split to make new cells; wood splits along the grain.

examples

• We are splitting the pizza into eight slices. tree →
• Splitting 36 into 30 and 6 makes it easy to add. tree →
• Dad is splitting logs for the fire. tree →
• The class is splitting into four groups. tree →
• Splitting the sweets equally, each child gets 5. tree →
• I have a splitting headache. tree →
• The rock is splitting because of the ice inside it. tree →

note

The past form of split is the same: «split» (no «splitted»). Double the t before -ing: «splitting». In maths, «split equally» means divide: 20 split between 4 = 5 each. «Splitting hairs» means arguing about tiny unimportant details.

In the corpora

• Cells make copies of themselves by splitting in two, and your body makes millions of new cells every second.
• Blending is pushing sounds together to read a word; segmenting is splitting a word into its sounds to spell it.
• Splitting a word into root and suffixes helps you spell words you have never seen.
• When parents are «splitting up», they are separating or divorcing, and a child can feel ill from the worry.
• Noah let it go; weeks later his mate told him his parents were splitting up.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «splitting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.