Split vs Burn - What's the difference?
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See (verb).
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(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.
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.
(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.
(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.
(ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
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To share; to divide.
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to separate or break up.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
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To burst out laughing.
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(slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and lose another game.
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A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals.
A sensation resembling such an injury.
The act of burning something.
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(slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult.
tobacco
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The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
A disease in vegetables; brand.
An effective insult.
(lb) To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.
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, title= (lb) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
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(lb) To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
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(lb) To sunburn.
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To accidentally touch a moving stone.
To cause to be consumed by fire.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
(lb) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
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(lb) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
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(lb) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:This tyrant fever burns me up.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
To cauterize.
To betray.
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To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
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(lb) To waste (time).
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To insult or defeat.
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In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card.
(lb) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare (dodge)).
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
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To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
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In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
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(Scotland, northern England) A stream.
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As a proper noun split
is a port city in croatia.As a noun burn is
water.split
English
Adjective
(split exact sequence) (-)- Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
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.}}
Derived terms
* split-shotNoun
(en noun)- He’s got a nasty split .
- In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
Verb
- a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
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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.}}
- The ship splits on the rock.
- Each had a gravity would make you split .
- (Thackeray)
Derived terms
* side-splitting * split up (verb )burn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bernen, birnen, from (etyl) byrnan, .Noun
(en noun)- She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
- chili burn from eating hot peppers
- They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
citation, passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn .}}
- One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn !
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7IpXLpypY7IC&pg=PA26 , isbn=9781872870403 , page=26 , passage=TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=LvdPsZHXG3kC&pg=PA94 , isbn=9781847470010 , page=94 , passage=“Any of you want to borrow some burn ,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.}}
citation, pageurl= , isbn=9781861347305 1861347308 , page=23 , passage=It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco]
- As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.
- They have a good burn .
Derived terms
* burn-in * chemical burn * first-degree burn * freezer burn * rugburn * friction burn * carpet burn * outburn * powder burn * second-degree burn * sideburns * slow burn * sunburn * third-degree burnVerb
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
Derived terms
* burn a hole in one's pocket * * burn book * burn down * burn in * burn out * burn rubber * burn the roof * burn through * burn up * burner * burnout * ears are burningEtymology 2
From (etyl) burn, bourne, from (etyl) burne, .Noun
(en noun)- THIS darksome burn , horseback brown,
- His rollrock highroad roaring down,
- In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
- Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
- He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn , and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
- When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.