competent
Definition: (adjective) having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable
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split
verb
- To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument: carve, cleave
1, cut, dissever, sever, slice, slit. See
assemble
- To undergo partial breaking: crack, fissure, fracture, rupture. See
help
- To separate or pull apart by force: rend, rip, rive, run, tear
1. See
assemble, help
- To become or cause to become apart one from another. Also used with up: break, detach, disjoin, disjoint, disunite, divide, divorce, part, separate.
Idioms:
part company, set at odds. See
assemble
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Informal. To break away or withdraw from membership in an association or a federation: secede, splinter (off). See
participate, politics
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Informal. To terminate a relationship or an association by or as if by leaving one another. Also used with up: break off, break up, part, separate.
Idioms:
call it quits, come to a parting of the ways, part company. See
assemble, continue
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Slang. To move or proceed away from a place: depart, exit, get away, get off, go, go away, leave
1, pull out, quit, retire, run (along), withdraw.
Informal: cut out, push off, shove off.
Slang: blow
1, take off.
Idioms:
hit the road, take leave. See
approach
noun
- The act or an instance of separating one thing from another: detachment, disjunction, disjuncture, disseverance, disseverment, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, separation, severance. See
assemble, part
- The result of cutting: cut, gash, incision, slash, slice, slit. See
enter, help
- A usually narrow partial opening caused by splitting and rupture: break, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, rift. See
open
- An interruption in friendly relations: alienation, breach, break, disaffection, estrangement, fissure, rent
2, rift, rupture, schism. See
assemble, help
- That which is allotted: allocation, allotment, allowance, dole, lot, measure, part, portion, quantum, quota, ration, share.
Informal: cut.
Slang: divvy. See
collect
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