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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dih-vahyd |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvaɪd |
Definition of divide
Origin :- early 14c., from Latin dividere "to force apart, cleave, distribute," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + -videre "to separate," from PIE root *weidh- "to separate" (see widow; also see with).
- Mathematical sense is from early 15c. Divide and rule (c.1600) translates Latin divide et impera, a maxim of Machiavelli. Related: Divided; dividing.
- verb separate, disconnect
- verb distribute
- verb put in order; classify
- verb disagree, alienate
- Well, you divide five thousand by ten, and you've got only five hundred left.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Now to understand them words perfect you have got to divide the tex.
- Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 5. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
- Together we can divide it; otherwise neither of us will get any of it.
- Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Divide the breast into pieces according to the position of the bones.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Divide them in pieces and split them, or cut them into slices.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Cut it down the middle, and then across, so as to divide it into four cakes.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- Then divide the mixture by putting it into two separate sauce-pans.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- One day he climbed over the Divide into the Warhouse Valley.
- Extract from : « The Biography of a Grizzly » by Ernest Seton-Thompson
- There were life and motion, and a world astir, to divide the attention of Day.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- Well, then, the scale of good wifeship I divide into ten parts.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
Synonyms for divide
- abscind
- allocate
- allot
- apportion
- arrange
- articulate
- bisect
- branch
- break
- break down
- break up
- carve
- categorize
- cause to disagree
- chop
- cleave
- come between
- cross
- cut
- cut in
- cut one in
- cut up
- deal
- deal out
- demarcate
- detach
- dichotomize
- differ
- disaccord
- disburse
- disengage
- disentangle
- dish out
- disjoin
- dislocate
- dismember
- dispense
- disperse
- dissect
- dissent
- dissever
- dissociate
- dissolve
- disunite
- divorce
- divvy up
- dole out
- estrange
- factor
- fork out
- go fifty-fifty
- grade
- group
- halve
- hand out
- hand over
- intersect
- isolate
- loose
- lot out
- measure out
- parcel
- part
- partition
- piece up
- pit against
- portion
- prorate
- pull away
- quarter
- quota
- ration
- rend
- rupture
- section
- segment
- segregate
- separate
- set against
- set at odds
- sever
- share
- shear
- shell out
- shift
- slice
- slice up
- sort
- sow dissension
- split
- split up
- subdivide
- sunder
- tear
- unbind
- undo
- vary
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