divide

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

   • a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
   • Divide the living child in two.
2. 2

   To share (something) by dividing it.

   • How shall we divide this pie?
   • true justice unto people to divide
3. 3

   To cause (a group of people) to disagree.

   • Words divide us, Wiktionary unites us.
   • It is a debate that divides Americans as evenly as any of the great political issues of the day. Should they leave their butter on the counter, or must they keep it in the fridge?
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   1. 4

      To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the…

      To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).

      • If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
      • I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations.
   2. 5

      To be a divisor of.

      • 3 divides 6.
   3. 6

      To separate into two or more parts.

   4. 7

      Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

   5. 8

      To disunite in opinion or interest

      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.
      • Every family became now divided within itself.
   6. 9

      To break friendship

      To break friendship; to fall out.

      • love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide.
   7. 10

      To have a share

      To have a share; to partake.

      • Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
   8. 11

      To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating…

      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.
   9. 12

      To mark divisions on

      To mark divisions on; to graduate.

      • to divide a sextant
   10. 13

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

       • About the bed sweet musicke did divide
   11. 14

       A thing that divides.

       • Stay on your side of the divide, please.
   12. 15

       An act of dividing.

       • The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
       • The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.
   13. 16

       A distancing between two people or things.

       • There is a great divide between us.
       • Republicans and Democrats interpret individualism differently, and those divides are more pronounced than ever in our deeply polarized political climate.
   14. 17

       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.
       • The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.
   15. 18

       The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a…

       The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

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• antonymjoin
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• antonymunify
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