Found 3 items, similar to Divide.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: divide membagi
English → English (WordNet) Definition: divide divide v 1: separate into parts or portions; “divide the cake into three equal parts”; “The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I” [syn: split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unite] 2: perform a division; “Can you divide 49 by seven?” [syn: fraction] [ant: multiply] 3: act as a barrier between; stand between; “The mountain range divides the two countries” [syn: separate] 4: come apart; “The two pieces that we had glued separated” [syn: separate, part] 5: make a division or separation [syn: separate] 6: force, take, or pull apart; “He separated the fighting children”; “Moses parted the Red Sea” [syn: separate, disunite, part] divide n 1: a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) 2: a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems [syn: watershed, water parting]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Divide Divide \Di*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing.] [L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. Device, Devise.] 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. [1913 Webster] Divide the living child in two. --1 Kings iii. 25. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns. [1913 Webster] Let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i. 6. [1913 Webster] 3. To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. [1913 Webster] True justice unto people to divide. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Ye shall divide the land by lot. --Num. xxxiii. 54. [1913 Webster] 4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. [1913 Webster] If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. --Mark iii. 24. [1913 Webster] Every family became now divided within itself. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] 5. To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question. [1913 Webster] 6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division. [1913 Webster] 7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. [1913 Webster] 9. (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.] --Spenser. Syn: To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share. [1913 Webster] Divide \Di*vide"\, v. i. 1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. --J. Peile. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause separation; to disunite. [1913 Webster] A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster] 3. To break friendship; to fall out. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To have a share; to partake. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes. [1913 Webster] The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster] Divide \Di*vide"\, n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide. [1913 Webster +PJC]