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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



... Lieutenant Flinders and Mr. Bass, who were instructed to examine the existence of the strait supposed to divide Van ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins
... Gregory, thrusting forth his arms to take her hands. "Fran! Even now, the bars divide us. But oh, I am so glad, so glad— and God answered my prayer and saved you, ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... art of interpreting dreams or of curing the sick, or of invoking and obliging the gods to assist them, and of arresting or hastening the progress of the sun on the celestial ocean. Some are mentioned as being able to divide the waters at their will, and to cause them to return to their natural place, merely by means of a short formula. An image of a man or animal made by them out of enchanted wax, was imbued with life at their ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... and Oxen generally,) is as distinct and well characterised as any other genus in the animal kingdom, yet the facts which are at present known respecting the various species which compose it, are not sufficiently numerous to enable the naturalist to divide them into sub-genera. This is abundantly proved by the unsuccessful result of those attempts which have already been made to arrange them into minor groups. Nor can we wonder at this want of success, when we consider that even ...
— Delineations of the Ox Tribe • George Vasey
... piece of biltong from a saddle-bag and began to eat it, for she knew that she would need all her cleverness and strength. "Take the bag of mealies," she said, "and divide it among the horses and the mule, giving a double share ...
— Swallow • H. Rider Haggard


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