Splitters

Word SPLITTERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Splitters"

What do we mean by splitters?

A person or a thing that splits.

A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.

A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.

A split-finger fastball.

A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.

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.

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The word "splitters" in example sentences

An increased focus on aerodynamics and what the industry sometimes calls air management means that even drivers of family sedans, station wagons and minivans have to be careful not to scrape low-hanging air dams, spoilers and "splitters" in driveway aprons and parking lot curbs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I always thought it was "splitters", but I could be wrong. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These "splitters" have done everyhing in their power to advance the proposition, Consevative good, Liberal bad. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This problem is solved with "splitters" which literally split off a percentage of the light signal so it can be examined. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For a generation or more in the recent past the "splitters" had things pretty much their own way; but of late there is a growing tendency to frown down the mania for creating new names. ❋ George McCready Price (N/A)

Among the workers in botany and in every department of zoölogy there have always been the "splitters" and the "lumpers," as they are familiarly called; the former insisting on the most minute distinctions between their "species," thus multiplying them; the latter being more liberal and tending to diminish the number of species in any given group. ❋ George McCready Price (N/A)

In the realm of invertebrate palæontology, however, the "splitters" are still holding high carnival, in spite of the efforts of some very prominent scientists in the opposite direction. ❋ George McCready Price (N/A)

First there were the "splitters," the most expert workmen in the plant, who earned as high as fifty cents an hour, and did not a thing all day except chop hogs down the middle. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

The best paid men, the "splitters," made fifty cents an hour, which would be five or six dollars a day in the rush seasons, and one or two in the dullest. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

The bank "splitters" include Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve. ❋ Unknown (2011)

All of which put me in mind of the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian, where the People's Front of Judea shout 'splitters' at their rivals: the Judean People's Front. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[H] e collected 120 pages of technical documents left around the San Francisco office showing how the NSA was installing "splitters" that would allow it to copy both domestic and international Internet traffic moving through AT ❋ Editor (2010)

Julian Fennessy: This is not just a matter of keeping geneticists or taxonomists in business or the age old argument of 'splitters' vs. 'clumpers'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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