Clave vs Split - What's the difference?
clave | split |
(archaic) (cleave)
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(musical instruments) One half of a set of claves, a percussion instrument consisting of two sticks, one of which is used to strike the other.
(music) A characteristic pattern of beats, especially the 3-2 son clave.
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.
* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)
To share; to divide.
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to separate or break up.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
* Shakespeare
To burst out laughing.
* Alexander Pope
(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.
(split)
As a verb clave
is .As a proper noun split is
a port city in croatia.clave
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)- And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) clave, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)See also
* *Anagrams
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English
Adjective
(split exact sequence) (-)- Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
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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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- The ship splits on the rock.
- Each had a gravity would make you split .
- (Thackeray)