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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#m1)

2) Splitting means sharing or dividing something between people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#m2)

3) Splitting up means separating, like a group splitting up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#m3)

4) A «splitting headache» is a very bad headache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#m4)

5) Splitting with laughter means laughing so hard that it feels as if you might burst. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#x1)
- Splitting 36 into 30 and 6 makes it easy to add. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#x2)
- Dad is splitting logs for the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#x3)
- The class is splitting into four groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#x4)
- Splitting the sweets equally, each child gets 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#x5)
- I have a splitting headache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#x6)
- The rock is splitting because of the ice inside it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/13/)
- [Blending is pushing sounds together to read a word; segmenting is splitting a word into its sounds to spell it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/16/)
- [Splitting a word into root and suffixes helps you spell words you have never seen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/26/)
- [When parents are «splitting up», they are separating or divorcing, and a child can feel ill from the worry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/20/)
- [Noah let it go; weeks later his mate told him his parents were splitting up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/450-too-many-details-too-few/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «splitting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splitting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.