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Divide   /dɪvˈaɪd/   Listen
verb
Divide  v. t.  (past & past part. divided; pres. part. dividing)  
1.
To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. "Divide the living child in two."
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. "Let it divide the waters from the waters."
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. "True justice unto people to divide." "Ye shall divide the land by lot."
4.
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. "If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand." "Every family became now divided within itself."
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.
6.
(Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
7.
(Logic) To separate into species; said of a genus or generic term.
8.
(Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
9.
(Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share.


Divide  v. i.  
1.
To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. "The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups."
2.
To cause separation; to disunite. "A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest."
3.
To break friendship; to fall out.
4.
To have a share; to partake.
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. "The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals."


noun
Divide  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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"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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