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Divide   /dɪvˈaɪd/   Listen
Divide

verb
(past & past part. divided; pres. part. dividing)
1.
Separate into parts or portions.  Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up.  "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
2.
Perform a division.  Synonym: fraction.
3.
Act as a barrier between; stand between.  Synonym: separate.
4.
Come apart.  Synonyms: part, separate.
5.
Make a division or separation.  Synonym: separate.
6.
Force, take, or pull apart.  Synonyms: disunite, part, separate.  "Moses parted the Red Sea"
noun
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.  Synonyms: water parting, watershed.



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"Divide" Quotes from Famous Books



... those conditions of civilisation which have existed in the centuries which divide primitive savagery from high civilisation, the demand for continuous, unbroken child-bearing on the part of the woman as her loftiest social duty has generally been hardly less imperious. Throughout the ...
— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner
... "Lady Harcourt, I will divide myself from you by any distance you may demand. But may I not come to you to tell ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... juvenile applause greeted her as she hurried into the parlor, and a number of grown people smiled quite musically. Her quick woman-wit showed her how to retaliate and divide the embarrassment of the occasion. As she passed me she said in an undertone,—"Answer quick! Who's that fat lady on the sofa, ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various
... set up the mast and aerials and made the connection to the storage battery. It was agreed that they should sit up in two-hour shifts, to be ready to receive any message that possibly might come, but it was arranged that the other four should divide this duty, allowing Frank, who had driven the truck over the entire trip, a ...
— The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service • James R. Driscoll
... down to the Mexican border, then west along the border of lower California to the Pacific, up the coast to 118 degrees 30 minutes west longitude, north to the dividing ridge of the Sierra Nevadas, and along their summit to the divide between the Columbia River and the Salt Lake Basin, and thence south to the place of beginning, "by the dividing range of mountains that separate the waters flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the waters flowing into the ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn


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