noun
Meaning 1
A thing that divides.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Stay on your side of the divide, please.
Meaning relationships
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noun
A thing that divides.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An act of dividing.
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noun
A distancing between two people or things.
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noun
A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
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noun
The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, hydrology, natural-sciences
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verb
To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: cut up, disunite, partition, split, split up
Antonyms: combine, merge, unify, unite
verb
To separate into two or more parts.
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Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: separate, shear, split, split up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To share (something) by dividing it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: divvy up, divide up, share, share out, apportion
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verb
To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To calculate the quotient number by which another one (the divisor) is multiplied to produce a second number (the dividend).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: arithmetic
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: multiply
verb
To be a divisor of.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: arithmetic
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verb
To reproduce by either mitosis or meiosis.
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Usage: intransitive
Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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verb
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To break friendship; to fall out.
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To have a share; to partake.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
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 nays.
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Usage: intransitive
Qualifier: parliamentary jargon
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verb
To split (something) into regular steps or intervals; to mark with degrees; to graduate.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: watershed, water parting
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: line
Narrower terms: continental divide, Great Divide
noun
a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disagreement, dissension, dissonance
verb
perform a division
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fraction
Antonyms: multiply
Broader terms: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
Narrower terms: halve, quarter
verb
force, take, or pull apart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: separate, disunite, part
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: move, displace
Narrower terms: compartmentalize, compartmentalise, cut up, polarize, polarise, sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate, disjoin, disjoint, disarticulate, disconnect, cut, tear, joint, gin, break, sever, break up, rupture, snap, bust
verb
come apart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: separate, part
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
Narrower terms: subdivide, polarize, polarise, calve, break up, chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off, disjoin, disjoint, detach, come away, segregate, segment, reduce, section, partition, partition off, dismember, take apart, discerp, gerrymander
verb
make a division or separation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: separate
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: partition, zone, break, disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter, rail, rail off, detach, shut off, close off
verb
separate into parts or portions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
Antonyms: unite
Broader terms: change integrity
Narrower terms: subdivide, format, initialize, initialise, sectionalize, sectionalise, triangulate, unitize, unitise, lot, parcel, sliver, splinter, paragraph, canton, Balkanize, Balkanise
verb
act as a barrier between; stand between
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: separate
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
241 source translations are retained for this English entry.