noun
Meaning 1
One who or that which divides or separates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
divider
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪˈvaɪdə(ɹ)/
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 V AY1 D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who or that which divides or separates.
A physical object for dividing up a space.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
One who or that which divides or separates.
A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
One who or that which divides or separates.
An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: drafting instrument
noun
Meaning 8
a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: partition
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: structure, construction
Narrower terms: brattice, bulkhead, screen, wall
noun
Meaning 9
a person who separates something into parts or groups
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: subdivider
noun
Meaning 10
a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: splitter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: taxonomist, taxonomer, systematist
History
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh1 From divide + -er.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُقَسِّم (mugassim) — object that separates
- Bulgarian: разделител (razdelitel) — object that separates
- Bulgarian: сепаратор (separator) — object that separates
- French: séparateur — object that separates
- French: intercalaire — object that separates
- German: Trennwand — object that separates
- German: Teiler — object that separates
- Italian: divisore — object that separates
- Malay: pembahagi — object that separates
- Plautdietsch: Schetzel — object that separates
- Polish: przekładka — object that separates
- Portuguese: divisor — object that separates
- Portuguese: separador — object that separates
- Russian: раздели́тель (razdelítelʹ) — object that separates
- Spanish: separador — object that separates
- Turkish: pergel — object that separates
- Italian: divisore — person who separates
- Malay: pembahagi — person who separates
- Portuguese: separador — person who separates
- Portuguese: separadora — person who separates
- Finnish: keskikaide — median of a highway
- French: terre-plein — median of a highway
- Italian: spartitraffico — median of a highway
- Malay: pembahagi — median of a highway
- Russian: раздели́тельная полоса́ (razdelítelʹnaja polosá) — median of a highway