Definition of Divide

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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.

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Divide Quotations

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 have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
Simone de Beauvoir

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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