(v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.
(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.
(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a little two-yard reception but it adds up to six points on what was a well rounded, d ominant d rive by D enver - call it a 3D-TD.
(2) Reinnervation, observed in some cases, is not the main factor for the good clinical results obtained with Rives muscle plasty, but can improve adaptability and elasticity of the transplant considerably.
(3) Thus Rives muscle plasty using a flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle to cover large congenital diaphragmatic defects seems morphologically as well as functionally superior to other procedures especially those using plastic material.
(4) It was used on Yves's ready-to-wear line and the Rive Gauche shop front .
(5) PI was increased by renal interstitial volume expansion (RIVE) via injection of 50 microliters of a 2% albumin in saline solution into the renal interstitium through a chronically implanted interstitial catheter.
(6) Rives muscle plasty using a pediculate flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle is an approved method for correction of large congenital diaphragmatic defects.
(7) And in the mid-60s, his ready-to-wear Rive Gauche label became a global phenomenon, offering women an affordable slice of the YSL dream.
(8) Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis with meclofenamate or indomethacin attenuated the natriuretic response and blocked the increase in UPGE2 associated with RIVE.
(9) YSL Rive Gauche, the ready-to-wear line, was immediately sold to Gucci, netting Saint Laurent and Bergé $70m.
(10) A series of 96 patients who underwent "eventration repair" using Mersilene-Mesh, according to Rives technique between jan 1983 and june 1988 is reported.
(11) Implantation site was the retromuscular space following the J. Rives technique.
(12) After a survey of the state of electrotherapy at the beginning of the 19th century, the author studies the pertinent work of Auguste De la Rive (1801-1873), mainly exposed in the three volumes of his Traité d'électricité théorique et pratique (1854-1858).
(13) The Rives technique was used, placing the prostheses between the posterior sheath and the rectus muscle; in one case it was inserted under the peritoneum.
(14) A standard Rives plasty was performed, emg electrodes were inserted into the diaphragm as well as into the muscle transplant.
(15) As Lauren Bacall put it in 1968 at the opening of the New York branch of Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, while wearing a black jumpsuit, "If it's pants, its Yves"; Helmut Newton's photograph of a woman on a street, smoking in a tuxedo , is part of the label's iconography.
(16) The brand was founded in 1961 as an haute couture house; five years later Yves and Bergé revolutionised the fashion industry with the first ready-to-wear line, Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.
(17) The results demonstrated 9.9% morbidity and 5.7% recurrences by Rives' technique vs 3.1 morbidity and complete absence of recurrences by Stoppa's technique.
(18) On the other hand recurrent hernias in risky patients as well as gross hernias are treated by Rives' method which consists in a prolene mesh placement through the inguinal approach.
(19) Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (PI), and urinary prostaglandin excretion (UPGE2) were measured before and after RIVE in eight control, seven meclofenamate-treated, and eight indomethacin-treated rats.
(20) Fusion of FISH and of reconstituted influenza (RIVE) or reconstituted Sendai virus envelopes (RSVE) with recipient membranes was determined by the use of fluorescently labeled envelopes and fluorescence dequenching methods.
Split
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Split
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.
(v. t.) To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
(v. t.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid.
(v. i.) To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
(v. i.) To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
(v. i.) To separate into parties or factions.
(v. i.) To burst with laughter.
(v. i.) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(v. i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value.
(n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure.
(n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
(n.) A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
(n.) Specif (Leather Manuf.), one of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
(n.) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
(n.) the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split.
(n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created.
(a.) Divided; cleft.
(a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(2) Bohler's angle may be reconstituted with apparent reduction of the posterior facet when projected laterally; however, Broden's and axial views show persistent widening and split of the posterior facet.
(3) Enzyme preparations catalyzed hydrolysis of a variety of gamma-glutamyl peptides but did not split non-gamma-glutamyl peptides or the transpeptidase substrate gamma-glutamyl-rho-nitroanilide.
(4) A 26-year-old man with 40% full-thickness burns was treated by excision and split-skin grafting on the 7th post-burn day.
(5) Four separate features could be distinguished in Fe-DNAase-1 digestions of human lymphoblast nuclei: a di-nucleosomal (2N) repeat, a mono-nucleosomal (1N) repeat, a component of "random" DNA, and triple splitting of major peaks.
(6) The data indicate that the locus for the alpha chain of the T-cell receptor is split by the chromosomal breakpoint between the V alpha and the C alpha gene segments, and that the V alpha segments are proximal to the C alpha segment within chromosome band 14q11.2.
(7) A major part of the iron is in a form which shows magnetically split spectra at low temperatures.
(8) In all three species, splitting of the total dose into 3 or more fractional doses given within 1 day approximately doubles the efficacy over that achieved after a single oral administration of the same total dose.
(9) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(10) The £77m, split between Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Norwich, will help improve existing cycle networks and pay for new ones, creating segregated routes in some areas.
(11) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(12) The enzyme acts on the oxidized B chain of insulin as an aminoendopeptidase: it splits off the N-terminal phenylalanine and the centrally located bond(s).
(13) The cervical sympathetic trunk (CST) was split into two bundles.
(14) The findings paralleled those of Study 1, including a split among subjects in their evaluations of the nonprototypical issues.
(15) From ducks A. laidlawii, M. anatis and various unclassified strains were isolated, among these M. anatis and unclassified arginine splitting mycoplasma strains proved to be pathogenic.
(16) Cyclobutadipyrimidines (pyrimidine dimers) undergo splitting that is photosensitized by indole derivatives.
(17) When the reactor is running, high-speed particles called neutrons strike the uranium atoms and cause them to split in a process known as nuclear fission.
(18) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
(19) In the Punjab, the eastern province, the movement has been able to forge ad hoc links with fragmented sectarian groups or freelance operators who have split away from bigger, more established organisations that are under close watch by intelligence agencies, the officials said.
(20) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.