remain vs split

remain

verb
  • To await; to be left to. 

  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. 

  • To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 

  • To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. 

noun
  • That which is left; relic; remainder. 

  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 

  • Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. 

split

verb
  • To leave. 

  • To factor into linear factors. 

  • To separate. 

  • 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 share; to divide. 

  • 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. 

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. 

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. 

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