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词汇 splitter
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Definition of splitter in English:

splitter

noun ˈsplɪtəˈsplɪdər
  • 1A person or thing occupied in or designed for splitting something.

    劈(或切、割)的人;劈裂机;分离机;分解器;分裂器

    a log splitter

    木材劈割机。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Malone Engineering currently produces post drivers, toppers, log splitters, power-type transport boxes in a range of sizes.
    • You also need a set of speakers, a Firewire cable, an FM doohickey for playing the iPod on your car stereo, and a splitter so your wife can also listen.
    • To avail of this facility, a cable customer must buy a cable modem and a channel splitter.
    • When it came time to test its first mango splitter, OXO identified the most common varieties of mango sold in the United States and designed the splitter accordingly.
    • And when we got cable Internet, I started ‘borrowing’ basic cable with a splitter, but only to the teevee in the computer room.
    • ATVs make towing a wood splitter to the pile of logs you skidded up to the woodshed easy.
    • This morning the District Court heard how a wood splitter and gloves were found in a rubbish skip in a street near the murder scene.
    • It could be a problem with the splitter at the wall jack.
    • From backyard log splitters to the huge machines you see on construction sites, hydraulic equipment is amazing in its strength and agility!
    • While he lay on the ground and workers tried to find help, the chain kept going as two other splitters picked up the slack.
    • All three channels can be imaged simultaneously with an appropriately designed image splitter.
    • We used to have Washington's birthday, cherry pies and all that, and at least in the north, Lincoln's birthday, rail splitters and so on.
    • He regrets the demise of many old crafts, including the skill of the hoop splitter, who split hazel and sally rods to make hoops for barrels.
    • The biggest tillers can power log splitters, pull a wagonload of rocks or clear snow from a driveway.
    • You know, they crawl into their little cubbies in the tree, and sit at their little squirrel computers (they use a splitter to intercept my cable connection), and blog.
    • He had two or three chain saws and even a log splitter hooked up to the back of his tractor.
    • There remains no better iron player in the business and once again he produced a succession of pin splitters yesterday.
    • No, no, Abe, you were a rail splitter, then an attorney.
    • He talks continuously even as he keeps working with concave cutters, trunk splitters, shears and tweezers.
    • The family now had three wood stoves, which they fed with logs split with their gas-powered wood splitter, an electric generator, a hot tub, and a deck with a view of the mountains.
  • 2A person, especially a taxonomist, who attaches more importance to differences than to similarities in classification.

    认为在分类中差别点比相似点更为重要的人(尤指分类学家)。与LUMPER 比较

    Contrasted with lumper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One sometimes sees the difference between splitters and lumpers presented as one of taste and personality.
    • What looks like one phenomenon to a lumper may look like three to a splitter.
    • Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.
    • And sometimes both versions co-exist (as with the splitters and the lumpers) and are found in different text books.
    • He said that he tended to be a lumper and felt that the splitters had often created many more species than the evidence justified, which he said is a ‘huge problem’ in paleoanthropology.
  • 3informal A severe headache.

    〈非正式〉剧烈的头痛

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've got a real splitter to show for it.
    • No sex tonight, honey; I’ve got a real splitter.
    • And if you're a coffee drinker during the week, don't stop drinking it on weekends or you'll risk a real head splitter.

Rhymes

bitter, committer, critter, embitter, emitter, fitter, flitter, fritter, glitter, gritter, hitter, jitter, knitter, litter, permitter, pitta, quitter, remitter, sitter, skitter, slitter, spitter, submitter, titter, transmitter, twitter, witter

Definition of splitter in US English:

splitter

nounˈsplɪdərˈsplidər
  • 1A person or thing occupied in or designed for splitting something.

    劈(或切、割)的人;劈裂机;分离机;分解器;分裂器

    a log splitter

    木材劈割机。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He regrets the demise of many old crafts, including the skill of the hoop splitter, who split hazel and sally rods to make hoops for barrels.
    • Malone Engineering currently produces post drivers, toppers, log splitters, power-type transport boxes in a range of sizes.
    • No, no, Abe, you were a rail splitter, then an attorney.
    • He talks continuously even as he keeps working with concave cutters, trunk splitters, shears and tweezers.
    • We used to have Washington's birthday, cherry pies and all that, and at least in the north, Lincoln's birthday, rail splitters and so on.
    • The biggest tillers can power log splitters, pull a wagonload of rocks or clear snow from a driveway.
    • While he lay on the ground and workers tried to find help, the chain kept going as two other splitters picked up the slack.
    • ATVs make towing a wood splitter to the pile of logs you skidded up to the woodshed easy.
    • The family now had three wood stoves, which they fed with logs split with their gas-powered wood splitter, an electric generator, a hot tub, and a deck with a view of the mountains.
    • From backyard log splitters to the huge machines you see on construction sites, hydraulic equipment is amazing in its strength and agility!
    • You know, they crawl into their little cubbies in the tree, and sit at their little squirrel computers (they use a splitter to intercept my cable connection), and blog.
    • It could be a problem with the splitter at the wall jack.
    • All three channels can be imaged simultaneously with an appropriately designed image splitter.
    • This morning the District Court heard how a wood splitter and gloves were found in a rubbish skip in a street near the murder scene.
    • You also need a set of speakers, a Firewire cable, an FM doohickey for playing the iPod on your car stereo, and a splitter so your wife can also listen.
    • And when we got cable Internet, I started ‘borrowing’ basic cable with a splitter, but only to the teevee in the computer room.
    • To avail of this facility, a cable customer must buy a cable modem and a channel splitter.
    • There remains no better iron player in the business and once again he produced a succession of pin splitters yesterday.
    • He had two or three chain saws and even a log splitter hooked up to the back of his tractor.
    • When it came time to test its first mango splitter, OXO identified the most common varieties of mango sold in the United States and designed the splitter accordingly.
    1. 1.1 A person, especially a taxonomist, who attaches more importance to differences than to similarities in classification.
      认为在分类中差别点比相似点更为重要的人(尤指分类学家)。与LUMPER 比较
      Contrasted with lumper
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Charles Darwin divided taxonomists into lumpers and splitters.
      • And sometimes both versions co-exist (as with the splitters and the lumpers) and are found in different text books.
      • One sometimes sees the difference between splitters and lumpers presented as one of taste and personality.
      • What looks like one phenomenon to a lumper may look like three to a splitter.
      • He said that he tended to be a lumper and felt that the splitters had often created many more species than the evidence justified, which he said is a ‘huge problem’ in paleoanthropology.
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