Split vs Unstring - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between split and unstring

is that split is to share; to divide while unstring is to shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in.

As verbs the difference between split and unstring

is that split is of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line while unstring is to remove the string or strings from.

As an adjective split

is see split verb.

As a noun split

is a crack or longitudinal fissure.

As a proper noun Split

is a port city in Croatia.

split

English

Adjective

(split exact sequence) (-)

See (verb).

Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.

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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.

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.

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(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 )

Anagrams

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unstring

English

Verb

To remove the string or strings from.

:Unstring the bows before storing them.

To shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in.

* Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me

* Clifton Johnson, Battleground Adventures

A fire is the only thing that unstrings me entirely, I feel so helpless to combat it. I'm afraid of snakes, but I can kill them.

To split (a text string) into smaller strings by separating on a delimiter.

* 1980 , Norman R. Lyons, Structured Cobol for Data Processing

It is also possible to save the delimiters (this might prove useful if the delimiters were also some sort of text identifier) and to count the length of the data items we are unstringing .

Synonyms

* explode