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Divide

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thing that divides.

    "Stay on your side of the divide, please."

  2. 2
    a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems wordnet
  3. 3
    An act of dividing.

    "The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property."

  4. 4
    a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) wordnet
  5. 5
    A distancing between two people or things.

    "There is a great divide between us."

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  1. 6
    A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

    "If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first."

  2. 7
    The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
Verb
  1. 1
    To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. transitive

    "a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns"

  2. 2
    perform a division wordnet
  3. 3
    To share (something) by dividing it. transitive

    "How shall we divide this pie?"

  4. 4
    force, take, or pull apart wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause (a group of people) to disagree. transitive

    "Words divide us, Wiktionary unites us."

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  1. 6
    move or break apart wordnet
  2. 7
    To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend). transitive

    "If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2."

  3. 8
    make a division or separation wordnet
  4. 9
    To be a divisor of. transitive

    "3 divides 6."

  5. 10
    separate into parts or portions wordnet
  6. 11
    To separate into two or more parts. intransitive
  7. 12
    act as a barrier between; stand between wordnet
  8. 13
    Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing. intransitive

    "[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying."

  9. 14
    To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

    "If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."

  10. 15
    To break friendship; to fall out. obsolete

    "love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide."

  11. 16
    To have a share; to partake. obsolete

    "Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us."

  12. 17
    To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, 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.

    "The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals."

  13. 18
    To mark divisions on; to graduate.

    "to divide a sextant"

  14. 19
    To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

    "About the bed sweet musicke did divide"

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan.

Etymology 2

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan.

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