divide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: divides
form: dividing
form: divided
form: divided
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Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan.
Senses: examples: text: a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
text: Divide the living child in two.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 3:25:
synonyms: cut up
disunite
partition
split
split up
antonyms: combine
merge
unify
unite
glosses: To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
examples: text: How shall we divide this pie?
text: true justice unto people to divide
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:
synonyms: divvy up
divide up
share
share out
apportion
glosses: To share (something) by dividing it.
examples: text: Words divide us, Wiktionary unites us.
text: For nearly two years, the pandemic has been dividing families over issues like social distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccines. Now that the holiday season is here and families are gathering, many issues that have been simmering are reaching a boiling point.
ref: 2021 December 15, “Has the Pandemic Torn Your Family Apart?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
text: It is a debate that divides Americans as evenly as any of the great political issues of the day. Should they leave their butter on the counter, or must they keep it in the fridge?
ref: 2023 April 29, Will Pavia, “Why butter must come out of the fridge”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023:
glosses: To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
examples: text: If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
topics: arithmetic
antonyms: multiply
glosses: To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
raw_tags: with by
examples: text: 3 divides 6.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: To be a divisor of.
synonyms: separate
shear
split
split up
glosses: To separate into two or more parts.
examples: text: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
examples: text: If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 3:24:
text: Every family became now divided within itself.
ref: 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:
glosses: To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
examples: text: love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide.
ref: 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, I. ii. 107:
glosses: To break friendship; to fall out.
examples: text: Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
ref: 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, I. vi. 87:
glosses: To have a share; to partake.
examples: text: The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
ref: 1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: to divide a sextant
glosses: To mark divisions on; to graduate.
examples: text: About the bed sweet musicke did divide
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
Synonyms: word: becut
word: discerp
word: disintegrate
word: dispart
word: dissever
word: divide
word: divorce
word: divvy up
word: part
word: partition
word: piecemeal
word: rescind
word: section
word: sever
word: split
word: split up
word: sunder
Hypernyms: word: disjoin
Hyponyms: word: cleave
word: hack
word: hew
word: rend
word: rive
word: tear
word: break
word: fracture
word: rupture
word: shatter
word: abscind
word: carve
word: chop
word: cut up
word: dissect
word: incide
word: slice
word: belimb
word: dislimb
word: dismember
word: segregate
word: sequester
word: sunder out
word: disband
word: disperse
word: bisect
word: trisect
word: quadrisect
word: quinquesect
word: septisect
word: halve
word: third
word: quarter
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: continental divide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
english: community
translation: community
word: Continental Divide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: Delmar Divide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: digital divide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: dividability
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: dividable
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: divide and choose
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: divide and conquer
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: divide and rule
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: Divide County
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: divider
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: divide up
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: divvy up
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: dividing engine
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: divvy
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: drainage divide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: misdivide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: overdivide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: redivide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: serodivide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: subdivide
sense: Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)
word: water divide
Related terms: sense: act of dividing
word: division
sense: the sum being divided, the upper term in a fraction
word: dividend
sense: the number of parts in a division, the lower term in a fraction
word: divisor
word: divisive
word: fraction
word: fraction slash
word: ⁄
word: fraction bar
word: vinculum
word: ratio
english: also improperly :
translation: also improperly :
word: ∶
sense: product of division
word: quotient
sense: extra amount left by uneven division
word: remainder
word: division sign
word: obelus
word: ÷
word: division slash
english: also improperly /
translation: also improperly /
word: ∕
word: long division symbol
word: division bracket
word: )‾
word: |‾
word: disconnect
word: distribute
word: divisible
word: separate
word: separation