link vs split

link

verb
  • To connect two or more things. 

  • To meet with someone. 

  • To contain a hyperlink to another page. 

  • To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. 

  • To demonstrate a correlation between two things. 

  • To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable. 

  • To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. 

  • To post a hyperlink to. 

noun
  • One element of a chain or other connected series. 

  • Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained. 

  • The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream. 

  • The connection between buses or systems. 

  • a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills. 

  • A space comprising one or more disjoint knots. 

  • A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. 

  • An introductory cue. 

  • Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion. 

  • The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. 

  • Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain. 

  • A sausage that is not a patty. 

  • A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas. 

  • an individual person or element in a system 

split

verb
  • To share; to divide. 

  • To factor into linear factors. 

  • To separate. 

  • To leave. 

  • To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. 

  • To vote for candidates of opposite parties. 

  • For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another. 

  • To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line. 

  • To burst out laughing. 

  • To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. 

  • To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord. 

noun
  • A dessert or confection resembling a banana split. 

  • A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle. 

  • The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race. 

  • A recording containing songs by multiple artists. 

  • A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi. 

  • A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn. 

  • A tear resulting from tensile stresses. 

  • A split-finger fastball. 

  • A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. 

  • A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down. 

  • The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun. 

  • A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth. 

  • A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are 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 in an upright position. 

  • One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses. 

  • A split shot or split stroke. 

  • A crack or longitudinal fissure. 

  • A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. 

adj
  • Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso. 

  • Given in sixteenths rather than eighths. 

  • Divided. 

  • Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others. 

  • Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary. 

  • Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price. 

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