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Divided   /dɪvˈaɪdəd/   Listen
Divided

adjective
1.
Separated into parts or pieces.
2.
Having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions.  Synonym: dual-lane.
3.
Distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose.  Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out.



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"



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"Divided" Quotes from Famous Books



... fellow. He always divided with the mess. If there was buttermilk anywhere inside of ten miles he found it. Apples he could smell from afar off. If anybody was killing pork in the county he got the spare-ribs. If a man had a cider cart on the road he saw him first and bought him out. No hound had a keener scent, no ...
— Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 • Carlton McCarthy

... sense of the text; when we are counselled to keep the unity of the Spirit, we are not to understand the Spirit of God as personally so considered; because the Spirit of God, in that sense, is not capable of being divided; and so there would be no need for us to endeavour to keep the unity ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... Constitution of Upper Canada was established, when it formed part of the province of Quebec, Lord Dorchester, by proclamation, divided the now western part of the province, afterwards Upper Canada, into four districts with German names—namely, Lunenburg, extending from the River Ottawa to Gananoque; Mecklenburg, extending from ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Edgerton Ryerson

... up the great load of luggage, which was not so big when divided among four boys, and hustled out of the Ring yard and down the dusty road. They were four of a size; that is, Tod Fulton was tall and somewhat flattened out, while Frank Ellery was more or less all in a bunch, as Jerry said, who was himself ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart

... examined, he is a decidedly modern poet, divided from the ancients by a tremendous gulf, not as regards outward form, which is not to be considered here at all, but as regards the inmost, the profoundest significance of ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke


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