divide

Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪd/

The English word “divide” has 18 meanings listed here.

verb

To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
To separate into two or more parts.
To share (something) by dividing it.
To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
To calculate the quotient number by which another one (the divisor) is multiplied to produce a second number (the dividend).
To be a divisor of.
To reproduce by either mitosis or meiosis.
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
To break friendship; to fall out.
To have a share; to partake.
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.
To split (something) into regular steps or intervals; to mark with degrees; to graduate.
To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

noun

A thing that divides.
An act of dividing.
A distancing between two people or things.
A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

Etymology

From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan related to English deal which formerly meant a “portion” or “part” of something.

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