Definition of Split end

1. Noun. (football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen.

Category relationships: Football, Football Game
Generic synonyms: End

Definition of Split end

1. Noun. A hair which has split at the end, usually from dryness or innutrition. ''(Usually in plural)'' ¹

2. Noun. (American football) The position which lines up wide and on the offensive line of scrimmage whose primary job is to serve as a receiver ¹

3. Noun. (American football) A player playing the position of split end ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Split End

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split-thickness flap
split-thickness graft
split-tongued
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split end (current term)
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Literary usage of Split end

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"A screw with a tapering head will expand the split end so as to hole the work, ... The split end of the arbor must be a fair fit in the hole of the work ..."

2. A Text-book of Operative Surgery: Covering the Surgical Anatomy and by Warren Stone Bickham (1903)
"TENDON-LENGTHENING :— A. Splitting one end longitudinally and transverse!;.. g where bent, and suturing split end into opposite unsplit end ; B, ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Dentistry: Including Anatomy, Physiology by Chapin Aaron Harris (1892)
"A pivot crown being adapted to the root surface, the split end of the pivot is sprung open and the crown forced to its place, being firmly held by the split ..."

4. Shop and Foundry Practice: Prepared for Students of the International by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"A screw with a tapering head will expand the split end so as to hold the work, ... The split end of the arbor must be a fair fit in the hole of the work ..."

5. Shop and Foundry Practice: Prepared for Students of the International by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"A screw with a tapering head will expand the split end so as to hold the work, ... The split end of the arbor must be a fair fit in the hole of the work ..."

6. Shop and Foundry Practice: Prepared for Students of the International by International Correspondence Schools (1901)
"A screw with a tapering head will expand the split end so as to hold the work, ... The split end of the arbor must be a fair fit in the hole of the work ..."

7. The Principles and practice of gynecology by Emilius Clark Dudley (1913)
"The split end of the ureter has been drawn into the bladder by means of the forceps. Semi-diagrammatic. FIGURE 344.—The split end of the ureter having been ..."

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