Divide
[dɪ'vaɪd]
解释:
(noun.) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility).
(verb.) perform a division; 'Can you divide 49 by seven?'.
(verb.) separate into parts or portions; 'divide the cake into three equal parts'; 'The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I'.
校对:鲁珀特--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.
(v. t.) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
(v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
(v. t.) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
(v. i.) To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
(v. i.) To cause separation; to disunite.
(v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
(v. i.) To have a share; to partake.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
校对:西蒙
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Sever, sunder, part, separate, cleave, disunite.[2]. Keep apart, put a barrier between.[3]. Make hostile, make discordant, set at variance.[4]. Distribute, allot, apportion, assign, share, mete, dispense, deal out, parcel out, portion out.
v. n. Part, separate, cleave, open, be divided, be separated.
校对:诺琳
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Separate, dissect, bisect, portio, part, divorce, segregate, sever, sunder,deal_out, disunite, keep_apart, part_among, allot, distribute, multiply
ANT:Unite, collocate, classify, convene, congregate, conglomerate, conglutinate,commingle, join, consociate, co-ordinate
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解释:
v.t. to part asunder: to part among to allot &c.: to set at variance: to separate into two parts (as in voting).—v.i. to part or open: to break friendship: to vote by separating into two bodies.—n. (coll.) the act of dividing: (esp. in U.S.) a watershed.—adj. Divid′able (rare) divisible: (Shak.) divided.—adv. Divid′edly.—n. Divid′er that which divides: a kind of compasses for dividing lines &c.—adj. Divid′ing separating.—n. separation.—n. Divid′ing-en′gine an instrument for graduating the scales of scientific apparatus.—adjs. Divid′ual (Milt.) shared in common with others; Divid′uous special accidental.
校对:杜鲁门
例句:
- He does not divide his act into eating and food. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- I cannot reveal it, or divide it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- We have happily been brought together, thanks to our good kinsman, and it can't divide us now! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- To divide it was to ruin it, and to expose every part of it to be oppressed and swallowed up by the incursions of its neighbours. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It was desired to divide large blocks generally at the quarries to facilitate transportation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Now divide the string into two equal parts by inserting the bridge midway between the two ends; and pluck either half as before. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- With these forces my idea would have been to divide them, sending one half to Mobile and the other half to Savannah. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of primogeniture, and lands, like moveables, are divided equally among all the children of the family. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Externally they were weak and divided. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It was therefore from the beginning a divided thing of uncertain power, a claim and an argument rather than a necessary reality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Here we made laws for ourselves, dividing our day, and fixing distinct occupations for each hour. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It was four stories high, with a fire-wall dividing it into two equal parts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- What would alone have set a division between that man and us, if there had been no other dividing circumstance, was his triumph in my story. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- They were in a book, and it happened to be in the next room--our sitting-room, dividing Ada's chamber from mine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The sexagesimal method of dividing the circle and its parts was, as we have seen in the fir st chapter, of Babylonian origin. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- To which riddle the Jacobin reply was to set about dividing up. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- When a ball meets more than one ball, it divides its motion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He has one assistant who divides the watch with him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The blunt end of a flat piece of steel is placed in this nick and a smart blow of a hammer divides the crystal evenly and perfectly. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I was admitted within that sacred boundary which divides the intellectual and moral nature of man from that which characterizes animals. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
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