Definition of divides Divides
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What does divides mean?
Part of speech
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NounPlural: divides |
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| divide - a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) | ||
| divide - a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | ||
| watershed, water parting | ||
| line acting in conformity; "in line with"; "he got out of line"; "toe the line" | ||
| continental divide the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico) | ||
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| divide - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" | ||
| split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up | ||
| unify, unite become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" | ||
| change integrity change in physical make-up | ||
| subdivide divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" | ||
| initialise, initialize, format assign an initial value to a computer program | ||
| sectionalise, sectionalize divide into sections, especially into geographic sections; "sectionalize a country" | ||
| triangulate survey by triangulation; "The land surveyor worked by triangulating the plot" | ||
| unitise, unitize separate or classify into units; "The hospital was unitized for efficiency" | ||
| lot divide into lots, as of land, for example | ||
| parcel make into a wrapped container | ||
| sliver, splinter form into slivers; "sliver wood" | ||
| paragraph write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher | ||
| canton divide into cantons, of a country | ||
| balkanise, balkanize divide a territory into small, hostile states | ||
| divide - perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" | ||
| fraction | ||
| multiply combine or increase by multiplication; "He managed to multiply his profits" | ||
| compute, cipher, cypher, figure, calculate, reckon, work out understand; "He didn't figure her" | ||
| arithmetic the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations | ||
| halve divide by two; divide into halves; "Halve the cake" | ||
| quarter divide by four; divide into quarters | ||
| divide - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" | ||
| separate, part | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| subdivide divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" | ||
| polarise, polarize become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | ||
| calve, break up birth; "the whales calve at this time of year" | ||
| chip off, come off, break away, break off, chip break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" | ||
| disjoin, disjoint become separated, disconnected or disjoint | ||
| come away, come off, detach leave in a certain condition; "She came away angry" | ||
| segregate separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims" | ||
| segment divide or split up; "The cells segmented" | ||
| reduce take off weight | ||
| section, segment divide or split up; "The cells segmented" | ||
| partition off, partition separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" | ||
| discerp, dismember, take apart cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" | ||
| gerrymander divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | ||
| divide - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" | ||
| separate, disunite, part | ||
| part, divide, separate perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" | ||
| displace, move cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" | ||
| compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!" | ||
| polarise, polarize become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | ||
| keep apart, sequestrate, set apart, isolate, sequester place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" | ||
| disjoin, disjoint become separated, disconnected or disjoint | ||
| disarticulate, disjoint separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" | ||
| disconnect make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | ||
| cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting" | ||
| tear fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing" | ||
| joint separate (meat) at the joint | ||
| gin trap with a snare; "gin game" | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| sever, break up set or keep apart; "sever a relationship" | ||
| rupture, bust, tear, snap fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing" | ||
| divide - make a division or separation | ||
| separate | ||
| partition, zone separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| dispel, dissipate, disperse, scatter, break up live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | ||
| rail off, rail complain bitterly | ||
| detach cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" | ||
| close off, shut off block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve" | ||
| divide - act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" | ||
| separate | ||
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Wiktionary 
- divide (Noun)
A thing that divides. - divide (Noun)
An act of dividing. - divide (Noun)
A distancing between two people or things. - divide (Noun)
A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land. - divide (Verb)
To split or separate something into two or more parts. - divide (Verb)
To share something by dividing it. - divide (Verb)
To calculate the number the quotient by which you must multiply one given number the divisor to produce a second given number the dividend. - divide (Verb)
To be a divisor of. - divide (Verb)
To separate into two or more parts.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- divide (v. t.)
To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. - divide (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. - divide (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. - divide (v. t.)
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. - divide (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. - divide (v. t.)
To subject to arithmetical division. - divide (v. t.)
To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. - divide (v. t.)
To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. - divide (v. t.)
To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. - divide (v. i.)
To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. - divide (v. i.)
To cause separation; to disunite. - divide (v. i.)
To break friendship; to fall out. - divide (v. i.)
To have a share; to partake. - divide (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. - divide (n.)
A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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divide
To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. -
divide
To split or separate something into two or more parts.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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divide
di-vīd′, v.t. to part asunder: to part among, to allot, &c.: to set at variance: to separate into two parts (as in voting).—v.i. to part or open: to break friendship: to vote by separating into two bodies.—n. (coll.) the act of dividing: (esp. in U.S.) a watershed.—adj. Divid′able (rare), divisible: (Shak.) divided.—adv. Divid′edly.—n. Divid′er, that which divides: a kind of compasses for dividing lines, &c.—adj. Divid′ing, separating.—n. separation.—n. Divid′ing-en′gine, an instrument for graduating the scales of scientific apparatus.—adjs. Divid′ual (Milt.), shared in common with others; Divid′uous, special, accidental. [L. dividĕre, divisum—dis, asunder, root vid, to separate.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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divide
To divide the house with one's wife; to give her the outside, and to keep all the inside to one's self, i.e. to turn her into the street.
