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Hew is a related term of split.


As proper nouns the difference between hew and split

is that hew is while split is a port city in croatia.

hew

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hewen, from (etyl) . See also (l).

Verb

  • To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
  • Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
  • To shape; to form.
  • to hew out a sepulchre
  • * Bible, Is. li. 1
  • Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • rather polishing old works than hewing out new
  • (US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with (to).
  • * 1905 , Albert Osborn, : A Biography , ] Jennings & Graham, [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA428&dq=hewed page 428,
  • Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
  • * 1998 , and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines , Collectors Press, Inc., ISBN 1-888054-12-3, page 103,
  • Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
  • * 2008 , , Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12990-8, page 28,
  • Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid on the Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hewing to the old comedy convention of beginning a speech by randomly referencing something in eyesight, Homer begins his talk about the birds and the bees by saying that women are like refrigerators: they’re all about six feet tall and weigh three hundred pounds and make ice cubes. }}
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  • *:King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
  • Derived terms
    * hewer * rough-hew

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) hue; colour
  • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) shape; form
  • (Spenser)
  • Destruction by cutting down.
  • * Spenser
  • Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew .
    (Webster 1913) English irregular verbs

    split

    English

    Adjective

    (split exact sequence) (-)
  • See (verb).
  • Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 19 , author=Kerry Brown , title=Kim Jong-il obituary , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.}}
  • (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
  • Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
  • Derived terms

    * split-shot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crack or longitudinal fissure.
  • A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
  • A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
  • (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
  • 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, thus lowering the body completely to the floor.
  • (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
  • He’s got a nasty split .
  • (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
  • A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
  • 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 (US) gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
  • A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
  • (athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
  • In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
  • (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
  • (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
  • (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
  • Verb

  • (ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  • * (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)
  • a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
  • To share; to divide.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates.}}
  • (slang) To leave.
  • to separate or break up.
  • To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The ship splits on the rock.
  • To burst out laughing.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Each had a gravity would make you split .
  • (slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
  • (Thackeray)
  • (sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and lose another game.
  • (split)
  • Derived terms

    * side-splitting * split up (verb )