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English

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Etymology

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PIE word
*dwóh₁

FromMiddle Englishdividen, fromLatindīvidere(“to divide”). Displaced nativeOld Englishtōdǣlan.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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divide (third-person singular simple presentdivides,present participledividing,simple past and past participledivided)

  1. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
    Synonyms:cut up,disunite,partition,split,split up
    Antonyms:combine,merge,unify,unite
    a walldivides two houses; a streamdivides the towns
  2. (transitive) Toshare (something) by dividing it.
    Synonyms:divvy up,divide up,share,share out,apportion
    How shall wedivide this pie?
  3. (transitive) To cause (a group of people) todisagree.
    Wordsdivide us, Wiktionary unites us.
    • 2021 December 15, “Has the Pandemic Torn Your Family Apart?”, inThe New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2022-12-12:
      For nearly two years, the pandemic has beendividing families over issues like social distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccines. Now that the holiday season is here and families are gathering, many issues that have been simmering are reaching a boiling point.
    • 2023 April 29, Will Pavia, “Why butter must come out of the fridge”, inThe Times‎[2], London:News UK,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on28 April 2023:
      It is a debate thatdivides Americans as evenly as any of the great political issues of the day. Should they leave their butter on the counter, or must they keep it in the fridge?
  4. (transitive, arithmetic, withby) To calculate the number (thequotient) by which you must multiply one given number (thedivisor) to produce a second given number (thedividend).
    Antonym:multiply
    If youdivide 6 by 3, you get 2.
  5. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
    3divides 6.
  6. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
    Synonyms:separate,shear,split,split up
  7. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, toreproduce by dividing.
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria weredividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
  8. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  9. (obsolete) To break friendship; tofall out.
  10. (obsolete) To have ashare; topartake.
  11. Tovote, as in the Britishparliament and otherlegislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, theayes dividing from thenoes.
  12. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
    todivide a sextant
  13. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

Derived terms

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Terms derived fromdivide (verb and noun)

Related terms

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  • (act of dividing):division
  • (the sum being divided; the upper term in a fraction):dividend
  • (the number of parts in a division; the lower term in a fraction):divisor
  • divisive

Translations

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split into two or more parts
divide up; share by dividing
calculate quotient
separate into two or more parts
of a cell

See also

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Noun

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divide (pluraldivides)

  1. A thing that divides.
    Stay on your side of thedivide, please.
  2. An act of dividing.
    Thedivide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
    • 1975,Byte, numbers1-8, page14:
      The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies anddivides are done.
  3. A distancing between two people or things.
    There is a greatdivide between us.
  4. (geography) A largechasm,gorge, orravine between two areas of land.
    If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross thedivide first.
    The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrowdivides in the glacier.
  5. (hydrology) Thetopographicalboundary dividing two adjacentcatchment basins, such as aridge or acrest.

Derived terms

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Translations

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thing that divides
act of dividing
distancing
large chasm, gorge or ravine between two areas of land
topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins

References

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  • “divide”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Galician

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Verb

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divide

  1. inflection ofdividir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /diˈvi.de/
  • Rhymes:-ide
  • Hyphenation:di‧vì‧de

Verb

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divide

  1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofdividere

Latin

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Verb

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dīvide

  1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofdīvidō

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:di‧vi‧de

Verb

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divide

  1. inflection ofdividir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatindividere.

Verb

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a divide (third-person singular presentdivide,past participle not used) 3rd conjugation

  1. (transitive, reflexive) todivide
    Synonyms:diviza,împărți

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /diˈbide/[d̪iˈβ̞i.ð̞e]
  • Rhymes:-ide
  • Syllabification:di‧vi‧de

Verb

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divide

  1. inflection ofdividir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative
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