What (who) is divide - definition
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divide
I. v. a.
1.
Sever, sunder, part, separate, cleave, disunite.
2.
Keep apart, put a barrier between.
3.
Make hostile, make discordant, set at variance, disunite, alienate, estrange.
4.
Distribute, allot, apportion, assign, share, mete, dispense, dole, deal out, parcel out, portion out.
II. v. n.
Part, separate, cleave, open, diverge, go asunder, divaricate, fork, be divided, be separated.
Divide
·vi To break friendship; to fall out.
II. Divide ·vt To subject to arithmetical division.
III. Divide ·vi To have a share; to Partake.
IV. Divide ·vt To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
V. Divide ·vi To cause separation; to Disunite.
VI. Divide ·vt To separate into species;
- said of a genus or generic term.
VII. Divide ·noun A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
IX. Divide ·vt To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
XI. Divide ·vt To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to Sunder; to separate into parts.
XII. Divide ·vt 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.
XIII. Divide ·vt 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.
XIV. Divide ·vt 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.
XV. Divide ·vi 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.
divide
I
n.
1) a continental divide; (in North America) the Great Divide
2) (fig.) the great divide ('death') (to cross the great divide)
II
v.
1) to divide equally, evenly
2) (D; tr.) to divide among, between; with (to divide profits among the partners)
3) (D; tr.) to divide by (to divide six by three)
4) (D; refl., tr.) to divide into (they divided the loot into equal shares; to divide three into six)
Pronunciation examples for divide
1. cells that divide, divide, divide very quickly.
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2. Divide."
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3. all the political divides, the religious divides,
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4. to divide.
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5. it divides.
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Examples of use of divide
1. Many of Pakistan’s ills are rightly attributable to the Shia–Sunni divide, the Punjab–Sindh divide, the mainland–outlands divide; they lost East Pakistan because of the West–East divide÷ there is no equality in theocracy.
2. So divide it, divide it and save it, before we die.
3. The income divide is especially sharp in the South, where it is reinforced by a strong racial divide.
4. GROWING DIVIDE The court case has put a spotlight on an ever–growing divide between ultra–religious and secular Jews.
5. Robert Clements Active Visitors: 84 Total Hits: 20'53567 Divide et impera Comment Dr Niloufer Mahdi Divide and rule.