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Definition of Divide

Divide To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. 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. 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. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. 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. To subject to arithmetical division. To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. To cause separation; to disunite. To break friendship; to fall out. 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. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed. Related Definitions: Against, Among, An, And, Apart, Apportion, Arithmetical, As, Ascertain, Asunder, At, Be, Between, Break, British, By, Cause, Discordant, Distribute, Disunite, Divide, Dividing, Division, Fall, Florid, For, Friendship, From, Generic, Genus, Give, Go, Graduate, Hall, Have, Hostile, House, Houses, Imaginary, In, Interest, Into, Is, Keep, Land, Legislative, Limit, Line, Lobbies, Make, Mark, Measure, Mete, More, Noes, Number, Of, On, Open, Opinion, Opposite, Or, Order, Out, Parliament, Part, Partake, Parties, Partition, Play, Question, Ridge, Said, Separate, Separated, Separating, Separation, Set, Sever, Sextant, Share, Sing, Species, Stock, Stream, Style, Subject, Sunder, Shares, Term, That, The, Themselves, To, Tributaries, Two, Upon, Variance, Vote, Wall, Watershed, Whole, With

Divide Quotations It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. Arnold Bennett Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Divide Translations divide in Danish is dele divide in Dutch is afscheiden, afzonderen, scheiden divide in Finnish is jakaa divide in German is scheiden, dividieren, teilen, aufteilen divide in Italian is spartire, dividere divide in Latin is tribuo, seco, distribuo, dido dididi didtum divide in Norwegian is skille, dele, dividere divide in Portuguese is dividir, divida divide in Spanish is dividir divide in Swedish is skifta, indela, dela, uppdela, skilja, avdela

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