divide

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

2. 2transitive 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. 3transitive 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. 4transitive verb

   To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

5. 5transitive 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. 6transitive verb

   To subject to arithmetical division.

7. 7transitive verb

   To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.

8. 8transitive verb

   To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

9. 9transitive verb

   To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

10. 10intransitive verb

    To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.

11. 11intransitive verb

    To cause separation; to disunite.

12. 12intransitive verb

    To break friendship; to fall out.

13. 13intransitive verb

    To have a share; to partake.

14. 14intransitive 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. 15noun

    A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

16. 16noun

    a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

    Synonyms

    watershed
17. 17noun

    a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

18. 18verb

    perform a division

    "Can you divide 49 by seven?"

    Synonyms

    fraction
19. 19verb

    force, take, or pull apart

    "He separated the fighting children"

    "Moses parted the Red Sea"

    Synonyms

    disunitepartseparate
20. 20verb

    come apart

    "The two pieces that we had glued separated"

    Synonyms

    partseparate
21. 21verb

    make a division or separation

    Synonyms

    separate
22. 22verb

    separate into parts or portions

    "divide the cake into three equal parts"

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

    Synonyms

    disseverseparatesplit
23. 23verb

    act as a barrier between; stand between

    "The mountain range divides the two countries"

    Synonyms

    separate