splitter, rail-splitter
(noun) a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
splitter, divider
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
splitter
(noun) a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
splitter (plural splitters)
A person or a thing that splits.
A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
(colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
Hyponym: species-monger
(baseball) A split-finger fastball.
(graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
(US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
• (GUI): sash
• (one who prefers to split categories): lumper
• Spittler, pretilts, triplets
Source: Wiktionary
Split"ter, n.
Definition: One who, or that which, splits.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.
