divide
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
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lifestyle
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *wiðō
Latin *vidō
Latin dīvidōder.
Middle English dividen
English divide
 PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan.
Inflected forms:
form: divides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dividing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: divide
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: divide
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: divide
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: dividest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: dividedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: divides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: divideth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: divide
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: divide
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: divide
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: dividing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: divided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: divides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
Divide the living child in two.
gloss: To share (something) by dividing it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How shall we divide this pie?
true justice unto people to divide
gloss: To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Words divide us, Wiktionary unites us.
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.
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?
gloss: To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations.
gloss: To be a divisor of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 3 divides 6.
gloss: To separate into two or more parts.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [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.
gloss: To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
pos: verb
examples: If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Every family became now divided within itself.
gloss: To break friendship; to fall out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide.
gloss: To have a share; to partake.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
gloss: To mark divisions on; to graduate.
pos: verb
examples: to divide a sextant
gloss: To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
pos: verb
examples: About the bed sweet musicke did divide
gloss: A thing that divides.
pos: noun
examples: Stay on your side of the divide, please.
gloss: An act of dividing.
pos: noun
examples: The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.
gloss: A distancing between two people or things.
pos: noun
examples: There is a great divide between us.
Republicans and Democrats interpret individualism differently, and those divides are more pronounced than ever in our deeply polarized political climate.
gloss: A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
pos: noun
examples: If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.
Carrying light packs they left camp at daylight the next morning. Trails there were none; but they followed the general course of a small creek, crossed a divide, and dipped down into a beautifully timbered valley watered by a swift, large creek of almost riverlike dimensions.
gloss: The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
pos: noun
Synonyms: becut
decide
discerp
disintegrate
dispart
dissever
divide
divorce
divvy up
part
partition
piecemeal
rescind
section
sever
split
split up
sunder
Antonyms: annex
coalesce
combine
join
merge
unify
unite
Related words: divisor
divisive
fraction
fraction slash
⁄
fraction bar
vinculum
ratio
∶
division sign
obelus
÷
division slash
∕
long division symbol
division bracket
)‾
|‾
disconnect
distribute
divisible
separate
separation
quotient
remainder
Derived words: continental divide
Continental Divide
Delmar Divide
digital divide
dividability
dividable
divide and choose
divide and conquer
divide and rule
Divide County
divider
divide the House
divide up
divvy up
dividing engine
divvy
drainage divide
misdivide
overdivide
redivide
serodivide
subdivide
water divide
cultural divide
great divide
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