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单词 splitter
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splittern.1

Etymology: < Low German splitter (German splitter, Swedish splittra), related to splîten to split.
Obsolete.
A splinter. (Cf. spleter n.)
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter
shiverc1275
spillc1300
spelda1375
splint1398
splinter1398
slicea1400
splinderc1440
spilderc1475
spelder1530
spell1545
splitter1546
spleter1548
spilt1577
shivering1589
skilfer1598
spelcha1605
slifter1606
spilter?1646
slappet1768
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. xi. 54 b The winter garlandes..which are made of wode splitters or Iuerie died with many colores began to be had in quotidian usage.
1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iii. xxxviii. 168 The seuenth encounter was between Iohn Marshal and Bouciquaut, who was somewhat hurt with a splitter.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xii. 120 Theie meete amidd:..so that bothe brokenn splitters flewe in th' aier.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

splittern.2

Brit. /ˈsplɪtə/, U.S. /ˈsplɪdər/
Etymology: < split v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who, or that which, splits or cleaves, in various senses.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [noun] > one who or that which cleaves or splits
cleaver1483
splitter1648
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Kliever, a Cleaver, or a Splitter.
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Rajador, a Hewer, a Cleaver, a Splitter.
1732 J. Swift in Gentleman's Mag. 2 821 How shou'd we rejoice, if..These Splitters of Parsons in sunder shou'd burst.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1141 The splitter begins by dividing the block [of slate]..to a proper size.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iv. 77 For lap~work, a tool called a splitter is employed to make a split in one of the edges.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 144 It is taken from the annealing-kiln..to be cut up by the ‘splitter’ to the best advantage.
b. spec. One employed in splitting fish.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > splitter of fish
splitter1623
1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 82 Seuen are to be skilfull headders, and splitters of fish.
c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 91 The Splitters immediately split them, beginning at the Tail, and so continue to the Head, close by the back Fin.
1761 Ann. Reg., Chron. 188/2 Every boat~master, splitter, and master voyage [sic], who are the chief people among the fishermen.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 519 A splitter, as he is called, then, with a large knife, cuts a fish open from the head to the tail.
1883 L. Z. Joncas Fisheries Canada 16 The splitter now seizes the fish, and with a single stroke of his knife he removes the back bone.
c. Australian. A wood-cutter.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman
wood-hewerc1000
wooderc1050
hagger1294
wood-hagger1294
feller1422
woodman1426
faller1614
wood-maker1616
forest-feller1618
axeman1671
holt-felstera1678
stocker1686
bayman1715
logger1734
wood-cutter1758
lumberer1809
lumbermana1817
shantyman1824
chopper1827
splitter1841
bushman1846
mahogany cutter1850
piner1871
bush-faller1882
lumberjack1888
bushwhacker1898
home guard1903
Jack1910
gyppo1912
timber-getter1912
timberjack1916
timber beast1919
1841 in Lang Phillipsland (1847) 133 Mokitte shot near Mount Cole; it is said by a (timber) Splitter.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Splitter, a name in Tasmania for a wood-cutter.
1870 A. L. Gordon Bush Ballads 32 At the splitter's tent I had seen the track of horse-hoofs.
d. An auxiliary set of gears that provides a set of ratios between those of the main gearbox. Frequently attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > which allows change of speed or direction
kick-down1909
splitter1963
1963 Automobile Engineer LIII. 228/2 An overdrive in front of the gearbox can be used as a splitter gear..to provide intermediate ratios between any two of the gearbox. These can be engaged without operating the clutch.
1967 Economist 8 July (Commercial Vehicles Suppl.) p. xxx/1 Even when there are enough speeds in the splitter box (which may be either in front or behind the normal box) rear axles are getting more complicated.
1977 Belfast Tel. 27 Jan. 21/8 (advt.) 1969 Leyland Super Commet, 6-wheel Tipper, fitted with p.a.s., splitter box, 401 engine.
1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load ii. 32 ‘How many gears have you got?’ ‘Thirteen forward and two reverse.’..‘It's got a splitter.’ Sally said..‘You don't have to move the gear lever thirteen times.’
2. figurative.
a. In phrases: One who makes fine or subtle distinctions.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > practitioner of
ergonist1593
ergo1597
subtilist1610
subtilizer1611
ob-and-soller1678
ergoteerer1687
splitter1699
ergotist1739
subtlist1829
straw-splitter1844
hair-splitter1851
pilpulist1859
ergoteur1881
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Splitter-of-Causes, a Lawyer.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 32/1 Of which they were as well qualified to judge as the most acute and subtil splitter of cases in all the courts.
1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd I. vi. 131 The splitter of metaphysical straws and chopper of logic.
b. One who favours minute subdivision in scientific classification.
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > system of > proponent of
systematic1662
systematist1700
systemist1714
methodist1753
taxonomist1835
lumper1857
taxonomer1881
splitter1887
taxinomist1899
cytotaxonomist1937
biosystematist1943
pheneticist1965
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > scientist > concerned with structure or classification > minutely
splitter1887
1887 Darwin's Life & Lett. II. 105 (note) Those who make many species are the ‘splitters’, and those who make few are the ‘lumpers’.
1898 Athenæum 22 Jan. 123/1 Babington belonged to that category of botanists..denominated ‘splitters’.
3. A splitting headache.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in head
headwarkeOE
headacheOE
headachinga1400
sodac1540
sood1547
a sore (Sc. sair) headc1550
raging1561
cephalalgy1607
head1783
splitter1860
headachiness1862
1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel the Widower v, in Cornhill Mag. May 584 I have got such a splitter of a headache.
1886 Punch 27 Nov. 263 Next morning Mr. Dumpkin has a headache, such a Splitter!!
4. One who causes splitting of votes.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > the numerical result of voting > split vote > one who causes
splitter1895
1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 2/2 The figure cut by the splitters themselves has in all cases been very poor.
5. Hunting slang. A first-rate hunt.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > a hunt or expedition
huntinga950
hunting-matcha1637
maroon1779
drive1795
chevy1837
splitter1843
burning chase1854
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 3 219 ‘What a fine country before us!’ observes a third; ‘what a splitter we shall have!’ says a fourth.
1976 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 16 Dec. 25/2 There was more than a holding scent and..we were in for a splitter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

splitterv.

Etymology: < split v. + -er suffix5, or < German splittern.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsplitter.
rare.
intransitive. To break into fragments.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst
to-burstc893
forbursta1000
springOE
to-flyc1000
to-shootc1000
to-springc1000
to-drevea1225
to-resea1225
to-breakc1230
to go shiversc1275
to-drivec1275
to-rivec1275
to-shenec1275
to-wendc1275
debruise1297
lash13..
to-dashc1300
to-scatter13..
to-shiver13..
shiverc1330
bequash1377
shinderc1390
brasta1400
bursta1400
to-shiderc1450
to fly in pieces1488
sprent1488
splindera1500
reavec1560
dishiver1562
shatter1567
disshiver1586
split1590
slent1608
besplit1638
disrupt1657
splintera1661
rupture1734
explode1784
to ding in staves1786
to break, knock etc., or go, to smash1798
spell1811
to go (also run) smash1818
to play smash1841
bust1844
splitter1860
disrump1886
to fall into staves1895
smash1904
1860 W. M. Thackeray Notes Week's Holiday in Roundabout Papers Atlas..would drop the moon..on to the white marble floor, and it would splitter into perdition.
1896 Daily News 29 Apr. 7/3 Called of God to save Russia from the ‘splittering’ which has filled Europe with rival creeds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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