DIVIDE
\dɪvˈa͡ɪd], \dɪvˈaɪd], \d_ɪ_v_ˈaɪ_d]\
Definitions of DIVIDE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
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make a division or separation
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a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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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.
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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.
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To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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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.
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To subject to arithmetical division.
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To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
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To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
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To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
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To cause separation; to disunite.
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To break friendship; to fall out.
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To have a share; to partake.
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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.
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A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
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To separate into species; - said of a genus or generic term.
By Oddity Software
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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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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.
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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.
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To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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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.
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To subject to arithmetical division.
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To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
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To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
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To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
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To cause separation; to disunite.
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To break friendship; to fall out.
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To have a share; to partake.
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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.
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A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
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To separate into species; - said of a genus or generic term.
By Noah Webster.
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A watershed.
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DIVIDEDLY.
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To separate into parts; sunder; part; diverge; differ; portion out; apportion.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A watershed.
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To part a thing into two or more pieces; to separate by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; to make partition of among a number; to open or cleave; to disunite in opinion or interest, or make discordant; to embarrass; to distribute; to make dividends; to share; to separate into two, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure.
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To part; to open; to cleave; to break friendship; to vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To part asunder: to part among, to allot, etc.: to set at variance: to separate into two parts (as in voting).
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To part or open: to break friendship: to vote by separating into two bodies.
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DIVIDEDLY.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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