Divide
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Divide
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1 v. t.
To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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2 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.
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3 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.
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4 v. t.
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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5 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.
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6 v. t.
To subject to arithmetical division.
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7 v. t.
To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
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8 v. t.
To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
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9 v. t.
To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
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10 v. i.
To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
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11 v. i.
To cause separation; to disunite.
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12 v. i.
To break friendship; to fall out.
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13 v. i.
To have a share; to partake.
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14 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.
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15 n.
A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
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16 v. t.
To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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17 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.
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18 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.
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19 v. t.
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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20 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.
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21 v. t.
To subject to arithmetical division.
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22 v. t.
To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
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23 v. t.
To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
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24 v. t.
To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
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25 v. i.
To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
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26 v. i.
To cause separation; to disunite.
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27 v. i.
To break friendship; to fall out.
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28 v. i.
To have a share; to partake.
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29 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.
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30 n.
A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.