Divide Definition
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English
Etymology
From Latin dīvidō (“divide”)
Pronunciation
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Verb
divide (third-person singular simple present divides, present participle dividing, simple past and past participle divided)
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- How shall we divide this pie?
- (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- (intransitive) (biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
Synonyms
- (split or separate into two or more parts): cut up, partition, separate, split, split up
- (share by dividing): divi up, divide up, share, share out
- (separate into two or more parts): separate, shear, split, split up
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Noun
divide (plural divides)
- A thing that divides.
- Stay on your side of the divide, please.
- An act of dividing.
- The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- There is a great divide between us.
Italian
Verb
divide
- third-person singular present indicative of dividere
Latin
Verb
dīvide
- second-person singular present active imperative of dīvidō
Spanish
Verb
divide (infinitive dividir)
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of dividir.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dividir.
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Look up divide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Articles concerning Divide include: In Geography:
- Drainage divide or watershed, a ridge of land between two drainage basins
- Continental divide, a water divide between the drainage of two oceans
- Continental Divide, the North American divide between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
- Divide, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Divide, Colorado, USA
- Divide County, North Dakota, USA
- Triple Divide Peak, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
- Great Divide Basin, in Wyoming, USA
- Division (mathematics)
- Divide and conquer algorithm, in computer science
- Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithm, a concept in the linear algebra branch of mathematics
- Continental Divide (movie)
- The Great Divide, an album by Scott Stapp
- Across The Great Divide, an album by Canadian-American rockers The Band
- New Divide, song by American alternative rock band Linkin Park
- Divide, song by American hard rock band Disturbed
- Divide and rule, a strategy of gaining and maintaining power
- Digital divide, the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers and the Internet
- North-South divide, between wealthy developed countries and poorer developing countries
- Cultural divide
- Mercedes divide, separating those who can afford a Mercedes-Benz car from those who cannot
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