divide meaning
EN[dɪˈvaɪd]US
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- Divide may refer to division (mathematics). Other articles concerning “divide” include:
- In Geography:
- Drainage divide or watershed, a ridge of land between two drainage basins
- Continental divide, a water divide between the drainage of two oceans
- Continental Divide of the Americas, the North American divide between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
- Places:
- Divide, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Divide, Colorado, USA
- Divide County, North Dakota, USA
- Triple Divide Peak, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
- Great Divide Basin, in Wyoming, USA
- NounPLdividesSUF-ide
- A thing that divides.
- Stay on your side of the divide, please.
- An act of dividing.
- The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- There is a great divide between us.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
- A thing that divides.
- VerbSGdividesPRdividingPT, PPdivided
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- How shall we divide this pie?
- (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
- 3 divides 6.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
- 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, 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.
- to divide a sextant
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In the study, 80 of them were selected and divided into 4 groups according to their different warfarin dosage and their usage of amiodaron.
- Here’s the tricky part: some of the garden’s orchids and aroids date back 100 years or more, but they have been divided or repropagated since, Ms. Falk said.
- Bleached and brittle stalks branch precisely, each finally dividing into an upcurve of umbrella-like spokes which terminate in a starburst of micro-stems.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Long and almost straight vessels (vasa recta), into which the efferent vessel of those tufts situated at the bases of the pyramids, divides.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of divide in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary