divide
IPA: dɪvˈaɪd
noun
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
verb
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
- (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, 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.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
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Examples of "divide" in Sentences
- It is to divide to amortize.
- The plans divided the community.
- It is divided by the River Coquet.
- I divided it by the length of the side.
- Divide the coefficients and subtract the exponents.
- It divides the watershed of the Danube and the Inn.
- Factors contributing to the reduction in the divide.
- It's tempting to divide the mortality by the incidence.
- Economics is divided into Macroeconomics and Microeconomics.
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