divide

divide is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
5. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To subject to arithmetical division.
7. transitive verb. To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
8. transitive verb. To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
9. transitive verb. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
10. intransitive verb. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
11. intransitive verb. To cause separation; to disunite.
12. intransitive verb. To break friendship; to fall out.
13. intransitive verb. To have a share; to partake.
14. intransitive verb. 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.
15. noun. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
16. noun. a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

    Synonyms: watershed

17. noun. a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
18. verb. perform a division

    "Can you divide 49 by seven?"

    Synonyms: fraction

19. verb. force, take, or pull apart

    "He separated the fighting children"

    "Moses parted the Red Sea"

    Synonyms: disunite, part, separate

20. verb. come apart

    "The two pieces that we had glued separated"

    Synonyms: part, separate

21. verb. make a division or separation

    Synonyms: separate

22. verb. separate into parts or portions

    "divide the cake into three equal parts"

    "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

    Synonyms: dissever, separate, split

23. verb. act as a barrier between; stand between

    "The mountain range divides the two countries"

    Synonyms: separate

Synonyms

watershed, fraction, disunite, part, separate, dissever, split

Common word forms

divided, divider, divides, dividing

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