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In United States law, a split sentence is a sentence under which the defendant serves up to half of his term of imprisonment outside of prison. Martha
Split_sentence
English grammatical construction
produce an awkward or ambiguous sentence. Fowler (1926) stressed that, if a sentence is to be rewritten to remove a split infinitive, this must be done
Split_infinitive
Rules for sentencing convicts in the U.S. federal courts system
States Federal Sentencing Guidelines are rules published by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that set out a uniform policy for sentencing individuals and
United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines
United_States_Federal_Sentencing_Guidelines
Horizontal space between sentences in typeset text
Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention. Since the introduction
Sentence_spacing
Issue when parsing sentence structure
Sentence boundary disambiguation (SBD), also known as sentence breaking, sentence boundary detection, and sentence segmentation, is the problem in natural
Sentence boundary disambiguation
Sentence_boundary_disambiguation
Feature in the typology of certain languages
In linguistic typology, split ergativity is a feature of certain languages where some constructions use ergative syntax and morphology, but other constructions
Split_ergativity
Condition of the human brain
Split-brain or callosal syndrome is a type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to
Split-brain
2024 murder of an American rapper in Florida
scheduled to be formally sentenced in June 2026. Andrews received a 15-year sentence in May 2026. On the early morning of June 23, 2024, American rapper Charles
Murder_of_Julio_Foolio
American convicted of gambling and extortion
jail sentence with four years and nine months of probation. However, it was discovered by the Appeals Bureau at the D.A.'s office that a split sentence with
Raymond_Márquez
2022 American double murder
murder. Shirilla was convicted of 12 felony charges and sentenced to two concurrent life sentences, with the possibility of parole after 15 years. As of
Murder of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan
Murder_of_Dominic_Russo_and_Davion_Flanagan
2023 murder trial in South Carolina, US
with a guilty verdict on all four counts. Murdaugh was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. On May 13, 2026 the
Trial_of_Alex_Murdaugh
American legal policy
of the judge. "What Is Shock Probation?". wiseGeek. Split sentence Criminal law of the United States United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines v t e
Shock_probation
This is a comprehensive discography of Sentenced, a Finnish metal band. Hung, Steffen. "finnishcharts.com - Finnish charts portal". Finnishcharts.com
Sentenced_discography
Indian terrorist
Maninderjeet Singh Bitta, and sentenced to death by hanging by a split decision. The Supreme Court of India commuted his death sentence to life Imprisonment on
Devinder_Pal_Singh_Bhullar
Cold War schism between communist states
GERMANY (AMERICAN ZONE) GERMANY (BRITISH ZONE) The Tito–Stalin split or the Soviet–Yugoslav split was the culmination of a conflict between the political leaderships
Tito–Stalin_split
2020 mass shooting in Croatia
The Split shooting (Croatian: Pucnjava u Splitu) was a mass shooting that occurred on 11 January 2020 in the city of Split, Croatia. A 26-year-old male
Split_shooting
Analysing a string of symbols, according to the rules of a formal grammar
computer science. Traditional sentence parsing is often performed as a method of understanding the exact meaning of a sentence or word, sometimes with the
Parsing
American hotel administrator
Alliegro plead guilty to four felony counts. She would later be sentenced to split sentence consisting of six months' prison and six months' house arrest
Lamar_Sternad
2025 murder in Frisco, Texas, U.S.
self-defense. On June 9, 2026, Anthony was found guilty of murder at trial and sentenced to 35 years in prison by the jury. The case was the subject of national
Murder_of_Austin_Metcalf
Traditions of American University
fined $1,000 and was given a three-year "split sentence" of imprisonment. Under the terms of the split sentence, he had to serve six months in jail and
Auburn_University_traditions
Murders by mushroom poisoning in Victoria, Australia
Justice Christopher Beale sentenced her to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years. It was the first sentencing hearing in Victoria to be
Leongatha_mushroom_murders
West Germanic language
of a sentence generally has to be the grammatical subject of the sentence. In cases where the topic is not the grammatical subject of the sentence, it
English_language
Carolina Structured Sentencing Act was adopted and implemented in order to give the judge a specific set of standards to follow when sentencing a person. There
North Carolina Structured Sentencing Act
North_Carolina_Structured_Sentencing_Act
Athletic teams representing Auburn University
a 3-year split sentence, which includes 6 months' incarceration and jail credit for time already served. Upon release, Updyke was sentenced to 5 years'
Auburn_Tigers
Semantic object to which an operator applies
which have been argued to take split scope. The company need fire no employees. On the de re (non-split) reading, this sentence means that there is no employee
Scope_(formal_semantics)
Pornographic website
eventually found guilty of all charges and sentenced to 13 years in prison; he was already serving an 11 year sentence in the Netherlands for similar offending
Motherless.com
Mental illness with multiple personality states
succeeds, or of diminished capacity, which may reduce the length of a sentence. DID may also affect competency to stand trial. A not guilty by reason
Dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative_identity_disorder
American gang leader (born 1950)
was serving six life sentences at the ADX Florence prison facility in Fremont County, Colorado. He was already serving a sentence of 150 to 200 years for
Larry_Hoover
American businessman (born 1950)
January 1991 in a split decision, finding no merit in his argument that his trial had been unfair. He started to serve his sentence in December 1991 at
Paul_Bilzerian
Group of one or more words
used within a sentence, so this means that a phrase can be treated as a unit within a larger structure. For instance, the English sentence "the squirrel
Phrase
Japanese organized crime (yakuza) group
26, 2008, Tetsuya Shiroo was sentenced to death. However, the Fukuoka High Court revoked the death sentence and sentenced him to life imprisonment on September
Yamaguchi-gumi
Online sextortion network
motivated by sadism. In 2023, Bradley Cadenhead, the network's founder, was sentenced to 80 years in prison after being convicted of crimes related to the sextortion
764_(organization)
American sex offender (1962–2020)
police. While awaiting sentencing, she gave birth to Fualaau's daughter. With the state seeking a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence, she reached a plea
Mary_Kay_Letourneau
Order of syntactic constituents
identify the sentence as a question. In (B), the first sentence is declarative and provides an answer to the first question in (A). The second sentence emphasizes
Word_order
Singaporean drug trafficker
appeal, and by a rare split decision of 3 to 2, the Court of Appeal allowed Roszaidi's appeal and commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment in
Roszaidi_Osman
New Zealand musician
being one of the founders of the bands Split Enz and The Swingers. In 1972, Judd and Tim Finn founded the band Split Enz. Initially a folk band, they slowly
Phil_Judd
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Little Crow at the Battle of Wood Lake. A war crimes trial led by Sibley sentenced 303 Dakota warriors to death; the legal scholar Carol Chomsky described
Abraham_Lincoln
American film producer and sex offender (born 1952)
of two of five felony counts. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison, and began serving his sentence. On July 20, 2021, Weinstein was extradited
Harvey_Weinstein
British rapper and singer (born 1987)
rumours that the band had split. These rumours began circulating again in August 2011; however, Dappy insisted the band had not split, but were simply taking
Dappy
American serial killer
who murdered five women between 1994 and 1995. He is serving his prison sentence, life without parole, in Menard Correctional Center, which is operated
Hubert_Geralds
Murder of 12-year-old Chinese-Spanish child in 2013
disposing of her body. The parents, who maintained their innocence, were sentenced to eighteen years in prison. Porto died by suicide in prison in November
Murder_of_Asunta_Basterra
American musician (born 1970)
residents with his car on October 25, 2006. He was given a 120-day suspended sentence, 20 hours' community service, and a $1,500 fine. In 2015, Durst stated
Fred_Durst
penalty in 27 states (of which two, Oregon and Wyoming, have no inmates sentenced to death), throughout the country at the federal level, and in American
Capital punishment in the United States
Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States
American prisoner rights activist
On January 29, 1985, Duncan was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. In 1986, after spending four years in Orleans
Calvin Duncan (legal advocate)
Calvin_Duncan_(legal_advocate)
American black metal solo project
Whitehead initially faced a 34-count indictment which carried a 60-year sentence, but the state dropped 28 of the counts before the trial. In 2012, he was
Leviathan_(musical_project)
American sex offender and cult leader (born 1955)
Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona and is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault after two convictions in 2011. The FLDS
Warren_Jeffs
American actress (born 1964)
connection with the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. She was sentenced to two months in prison, and was released in December 2020. As the case
Lori_Loughlin
Boston Marathon bomber (born 1993)
Tsarnaev was tried and convicted of 30 counts and was sentenced to death. His death sentence was vacated on appeal in July 2020, but the U.S. Supreme
Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev
We fixed the issue cited by the editor
attention of media . Shawn Merriman was convicted of mail fraud and was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison in 2010. Media outlets have referred to
Shawn_Merriman_(fraudster)
1968 shooting in Los Angeles, California
of malice aforethought"; he was convicted and sentenced to death. Due to People v. Anderson, his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972 with a
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Assassination_of_Robert_F._Kennedy
Mexican drug lord incarcerated in a US federal prison (born 1957)
trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison. Guzmán was born in Sinaloa and raised in a poor farming
El_Chapo
Australian murderer (1958–2025)
February 1958 – 15 July 2025) was an Australian criminal who served a sentence of life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter
Bradley_John_Murdoch
Italian Camorrista and head of the Amato-Pagano clan
"Splinters" of Secondigliano), because their clan was created after their split from the Di Lauro clan. In addition to that name, they are also known as
Raffaele_Amato
American actress and activist (born 1982)
charged with a crime. In October 2008, after pleading guilty, Follieri was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison. In early 2007, Hathaway discussed
Anne_Hathaway
American rapper and producer (born 1977)
the pair had split amicably and remained friends. West dated model Amber Rose from 2008 until mid-2010. In an interview following their split, West stated
Kanye_West
Polish-American gangster from Cleveland, Ohio
However, when deliberating on the sentence Filkowski should receive, they were split 8-4 in favor of a death sentence, with two men and two women hesitant
Joseph_Filkowski
Canadian serial killer (1949–2024)
second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years—the longest possible sentence for second-degree murder
Robert_Pickton
Pattern relating to the subject and object of verbs
word "man". In the first sentence (present continuous tense) the agent is in the nominative case (k'aci ). In the second sentence, which shows ergative alignment
Ergative–absolutive_alignment
Syntactical occurrence
immediately before its corresponding object; for example, at the end of a sentence. The term preposition stranding was coined in 1964, predated by stranded
Preposition_stranding
Terrorist attack in Mumbai in 1993
judicial proceedings, upheld the death sentence against suspected ringleader Yakub Memon while commuting the death sentences of 10 others to life imprisonment
1993_Bombay_bombings
Indian actress and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1948–2016)
2014, the Supreme Court granted her two months' bail and suspended her sentence. On 18 October 2014, Jayalalithaa returned to Chennai after spending 21
J._Jayalalithaa
Italian media tycoon and politician (1936–2023)
sentence by doing unpaid community service. Three years of his sentence were automatically pardoned under Italian law; because he had been sentenced to
Silvio_Berlusconi
Concept in machine learning
can detect the presence of data in a pretraining dataset. It presents a sentence suspected to be present in the pretraining dataset, and computes the log-likelihood
Leakage_(machine_learning)
American serial killer (1943–2021)
offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979. He pleaded guilty and received two sentences, both twenty-five
Rodney_Alcala
International tribunal organisation
determined in its sentencing decision that the time since 9 June 2020 is to be deducted from the sentence. Thus, if conviction and sentence stand, Ali Muhammad
International_Criminal_Court
1914–1918 global conflict
Serbs, 700 to 2,200 of whom died in prison. A further 460 Serbs were sentenced to death. A predominantly Bosniak special militia known as the Schutzkorps
World_War_I
murder of Aquash in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Each is serving a life sentence. By the time of the indictments, Theda Nelson Clarke was being cared for
American Indian Movement of Colorado
American_Indian_Movement_of_Colorado
South African sprinter and convicted murderer (born 1986)
homicide. He received a five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended sentence for a separate reckless endangerment
Oscar_Pistorius
Indian political party
first term. Once the Supreme Court of India overturned her conviction and sentence in the case, Panneerselvam resigned from the post immediately on the morning
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
All_India_Anna_Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam
Austrian and American actor and Governor of California (born 1947)
acts, Schwarzenegger commuted Núñez's sentence by more than half, to seven years. He believed that Núñez's sentence was "excessive" in comparison with the
Arnold_Schwarzenegger
Conflict between Leftists, Centrists and Rightists
In 1964, a major split occurred in the Communist Party of India (CPI). The split was the culmination of decades of tensions and factional infighting.
1964 split in the Communist Party of India
1964_split_in_the_Communist_Party_of_India
Portuguese political activist (1918–2015)
a very bad condition, where she had a miscarriage. She was eventually sentenced to five years in Caxias prison near Lisbon. However, she was paroled in
Cândida_Ventura
American actor (born 1984)
(2004), Four Brothers (2005), Eragon (2006), Georgia Rule (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Tron: Legacy (2010), Country Strong (2010), On the Road (2012)
Garrett_Hedlund
American convicted murderer (born 1973)
offenders could only receive a death sentence on the basis that the jury's vote for capital punishment was unanimous, or a split jury vote would otherwise result
Stacey_Humphreys
Professional wrestling stable
to the Undertaker and to punish them. On one occasion, Christian was sentenced to a flogging at the hands of his fellow Brood members, and from the Undertaker
The Brood (professional wrestling)
The_Brood_(professional_wrestling)
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
imprisoned from 2010 until 2017, when President Barack Obama commuted her sentence. A trans woman, Manning said in 2013 that she had had a female gender identity
Chelsea_Manning
Belarusian political party
banned political party in Belarus. It was de facto established after the split of the social movement Belarusian Popular Front (abbr. BPF; Belarusian:
BPF_Party
American murderer on South Carolina's death row
this plea. He was found guilty of five counts of murder in 2019 and was sentenced to death. As of 2022 he is awaiting execution on death row in South Carolina
Timothy_Jones_Jr.
American model and convict (born 1984)
and corporal injury to a child, assaulting a 16-year-old boy. He was sentenced to serve two years in a California prison, during which he admitted to
Jeremy_Meeks
Polish Marxist revolutionary (1867–1919)
Russian editions of works by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. A financial split of 50-50 was proposed by Jogiches, which was abruptly rejected by Plekhanov
Leo_Jogiches
Indian politician
name Dalmiyapuram symbolised north Indian domination. He was eventually sentenced to three months' imprisonment for this protest. When India became a republic
S._Natarajan
British mixed martial artist (born 1994)
the fight by unanimous decision. Allen was issued a five-month suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to affray, for his role in a 23 December 2016 brawl
Arnold_Allen
North American cult and pyramid scheme
Mack were given lesser prison sentences, and defendants Lauren Salzman and Kathy Russell were each given non-prison sentences. Since Raniere's conviction
NXIVM
factors such as manslaughter or an accidental homicide may lead to a lighter sentence but typically is still classified as an intentional injury resulting in
Murder_in_Chinese_law
2020. Lang, Jamie (24 May 2021). "Netflix's Final Season of 'Money Heist' Split in Two Volumes, Launching Sept. 3 and Dec. 3". Variety. Retrieved 4 June
List_of_Money_Heist_episodes
Prison camp in Split, Croatia
handed down by the Split Cantonal Court, War Crimes Chamber on March 2, 2006. The officers were all found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to between 4 and
Lora_prison_camp
Text placed alongside its translation or translations
parallel corpora at sentence level are prerequisite for many areas of linguistic research. During translation, sentences can be split, merged, deleted,
Parallel_text
South African system of racial segregation
by his daughter Zinzi – his first words distributed publicly since his sentence to prison 21 years earlier. Mandela described violence as the responsibility
Apartheid
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2025
threatening email. The man pleaded guilty in court to sending the email and was sentenced to 15 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months. Earlier in March 2019
Angela_Rayner
Street protest against the Yugoslav People's Army
Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) was held in Split, Croatia, on 6 May 1991. The protest was organised by the Croatian Trade
1991_protest_in_Split
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
Ward 1990, p. 272. Coulter 1950, p. 566. James M. McPherson quotes this sentence in Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (Oxford
American_Civil_War
2013 domestic terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
resulting in death. Two months after his conviction, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was vacated by the United States Court of Appeals for the
Boston_Marathon_bombing
Beliefs about the use of the English language considered by others as wrong
prohibiting sentence-ending prepositions. Associated Press style and Chicago Style both allow this usage. Misconception: "Infinitives must not be split." "There
Common English usage misconceptions
Common_English_usage_misconceptions
American singer (1956–1995)
adult led to a drug trafficking charge in 1988. After a five-year prison sentence, he returned to performing and recording. DeBarge was born to Etterlene
Bobby_DeBarge
Indian gangster
After the split, he formed his own gang. Reports of bloody shootouts between Rajan and Dawood's hoodlums have been common since the split. In 1994, Rajan
Chhota_Rajan
American singer (born 1981)
Trawick Split". People. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019. "Britney Spears and Jason Trawick – SPLIT". TMZ. January
Britney_Spears
American singer (born 1961)
the group disbanded and focused on separate projects in 1990. After this split, Jackson formed his band, Randy & the Gypsys. The group released only one
Randy Jackson (Jacksons singer)
Randy_Jackson_(Jacksons_singer)
American rapper and singer-songwriter (1998–2018)
all three were found guilty on all counts. On April 6, 2023, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Onfroy has RIAA-certified
XXXTentacion
Public personality and martial artist
father until primary school since he was away serving a long-term prison sentence for taking part in various criminal activities. His mother was a stewardess
Kristijan_Golubović
Indian politician (1939–2022)
been sentenced to death. Should rape cases lead to hanging? Boys are boys, they make mistakes. Two or three have been given the death sentence in Mumbai
Mulayam_Singh_Yadav
SPLIT SENTENCE
SPLIT SENTENCE
Boy/Male
Tamil
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Boy/Male
Tamil
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Split Cleavage
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Momentary; Lord Rama's Ancestor; Spilt-second; Lord Vishnu
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
One who Lives Life Long; Gains Victory Within Splits
Girl/Female
American, Christian, Hebrew, Indian
Narrow Split of Land
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : metonymic occupational name for a turnspit, i.e. a servant who turned the spit, from Old French haste ‘(roasting) spit’.A bearer of the name Haste from Paris is documented in Montreal in 1662.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Split
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Split Meadow
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Telugu
Motherly Love; Energetic Sprit
Boy/Male
Hindu
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, near Rishton, recorded in 1246 as Kunteclive, from Old English cunte ‘cunt’ + clif ‘slope’, i.e. ‘slope with a slit or crack in it’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
Boy/Male
English
From the split meadow.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Strong, Solid, Firm, Sharp
Boy/Male
Muslim
Split, Cleavage
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called, which split more or less evenly into two groups with different etymologies. One set (with examples in Berkshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) is named from the Old English weak dative hēan (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other (with examples in Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire) has Old English hīwan ‘household’, ‘monastery’. Compare Hine as the first element.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Momentary; Split Second
Boy/Male
Hindu
Inside viewer, Spilt second
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Strong; Solid; Firm; Sharp
SPLIT SENTENCE
SPLIT SENTENCE
Boy/Male
Indian, Sindhi
Greek God
Girl/Female
Muslim
To pray, White rose
Boy/Male
Afghan, Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Muslim
Ascetic; Abstemious; Devotee
Girl/Female
Australian, Hindu, Indian
Beautiful; Thirst
Girl/Female
Hindu
Principled, Moral person, Virtuous
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of several places, for example in the county of Middlesex (now part of Greater London) and Northamptonshire (Cranford St. Andrew and Cranford St. John), named with Old English cran ‘crane’ + ford ‘ford’.
Boy/Male
Hebrew
God is my strength.
Boy/Male
Gaelic Scandinavian English
Rules with counsel. Form of Ronald from Reynold.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Nishikesh | நீஷீகேஷÂ
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sindhurini | ஸீநà¯à®¤à¯à®°à¯€à®¨à¯€Â
Sinthoor
SPLIT SENTENCE
SPLIT SENTENCE
SPLIT SENTENCE
SPLIT SENTENCE
SPLIT SENTENCE
imp. & p. p.
of Split
v. t.
A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
v. i.
To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
v. i.
To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
v. t.
One of the small plates of metal used in making splint armor. See Splint armor, below.
n.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
v. t.
A piece split off; a splinter.
imp. & p. p.
of Slit
n.
To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
v. t.
To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
v. t.
To fasten or confine with splints, as a broken limb. See Splint, n., 2.
v. t.
Splint, or splent, coal. See Splent coal, under Splent.
imp. & p. p.
of Spit
a.
Divided; split; partly divided or split.
n.
the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
v. t.
To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver.
v. t.
A splint bone.
n.
To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
n.
A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
v. t.
To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.