There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
SPLITS
Noun
splits
plural of split
Noun
splits pl (plural only)
(dance, cheerleading, gymnastics) A maneuver in which the legs are extended straight out and perpendicular to the body, either to the sides or in front and behind.
Verb
splits
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of split
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
SPLIT
Split (splît), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Split (Splitted, R.); p. pr. & vb. n. Splitting.] Etym: [Probably of Scand. or Low german origin; cf. Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten, G. spleissen, MHG. splizen. Cf. Splice, Splint, Splinter.]
1. 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. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.
2. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. Boyle.
3. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. [Colloq.] South.
4. (Chem.)
Definition: To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
Split, v. i.
1. To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
2. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. The ship splits on the rock. Shak.
3. To separate into parties or factions. [Colloq.]
4. To burst with laughter. [Colloq.] Each had a gravity would make you split. Pope.
5. To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. [Slang] Thackeray. To split on a rock, to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.
Split, n.
Definition: A crack, or longitudinl fissure.
2. A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. [Colloq.]
3. A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
4. Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
5. (Faro)
Definition: A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
Split, a.
1. Divided; cleft.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Divided deeply; cleft. Split pease, hulled pease split for making soup, etc.
– Split pin (Mach.), a pin with one end split so that it may be spread open to secure it in its place.
– Split pulley, a parting pulley. See under Pulley.
– Split ring, a ring with overlapped or interlocked ends which may be sprung apart so that objects, as keys, may be strung upon the ring or removed from it.
– Split ticket, a ballot containing the names of only a portion of the candidates regularly nominated by one party, other names being substituted for those omitted. [U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GLASSY
(adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; “empty eyes”; “a glassy stare”; “his eyes were glazed over with boredom”
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