divide
Plural: divides
Noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
Verb
Verb Forms: divided, dividing, divides
- To separate into parts or groups; to share.
- separate into parts or portions
- "divide the cake into three equal parts"
- perform a division
- "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- "The mountain range divides the two countries"
- come apart
- make a division or separation
- force, take, or pull apart
- To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To share (something) by dividing it.
- To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- To be a divisor of.
- To separate into two or more parts.
- Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- To break friendship; to fall out.
- To have a share; to partake.
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, 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 play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
Examples
- 3 divides 6.
- a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
- How shall we divide this pie?
- If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
- If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
- Stay on your side of the divide, please.
- The best strategy is to DIVIDE and conquer, creating multiple scoring opportunities.
- The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
- The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.
- There is a great divide between us.
- to divide a sextant
- Words divide us, Wiktionary unites us.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan.
Synonyms
carve up, dissever, disunite, fraction, part, separate, split, split up, water parting, watershed, apportion, becut, cut up, discerp, disintegrate, dispart, divide, divide up, divorce, divvy up, partition, piecemeal, rescind, section, sever, share, share out, shear, sunder
Scrabble Score: 11
divide: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddivide: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
divide: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary