Divide

[dɪ'vaɪd]

Definition

(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'.

Checker: Rupert--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Editor: Simon

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Editor: Noreen

Synonyms and Antonyms

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

Checked by Andrew

Definition

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.

Checker: Truman