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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.
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Divide the living child in two. --1 Kings iii.
25.
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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.
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Let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i.
6.
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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.
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True justice unto people to divide. --Spenser.
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Ye shall divide the land by lot. --Num. xxxiii.
54.
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4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or
hostile; to set at variance.
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If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom
can not stand. --Mark iii.
24.
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Every family became now divided within itself.
--Prescott.
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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.
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6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
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7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or
generic term.
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8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a
sextant.
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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.
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Divide
\Di*vide"\, v. i.
1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
--Milton.
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The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups.
--J. Peile.
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2. To cause separation; to disunite.
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A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between
islands, divide less than the matted forest.
--Bancroft.
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3. To break friendship; to fall out. --Shak.
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4. To have a share; to partake. --Shak.
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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.
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The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their
equals. --Gibbon.
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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.
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