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Divide   /dɪvˈaɪd/   Listen
Divide

verb
(past & past part. divided; pres. part. dividing)
1.
Separate into parts or portions.  Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up.  "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
2.
Perform a division.  Synonym: fraction.
3.
Act as a barrier between; stand between.  Synonym: separate.
4.
Come apart.  Synonyms: part, separate.
5.
Make a division or separation.  Synonym: separate.
6.
Force, take, or pull apart.  Synonyms: disunite, part, separate.  "Moses parted the Red Sea"
noun
1.
A serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility).
2.
A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems.  Synonyms: water parting, watershed.



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"Divide" Quotes from Famous Books



... a suite of three; taken separately, of medium dimensions; but when the heavy hangings are drawn aside which divide the apartments they form one long handsome room, extending the entire length of the villa, at one end of which is a conservatory where bloom flowers of great beauty, the tiny structure being in miniature form of the villa; it was entered from the salon by sliding doors of ...
— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny
... never yet met with any success. You thrust your arm into the stream to divide the water, but it re-unites behind your hand. You attempt to live your life on one side only, to dissever that which was made for unity, and calamity comes to crush you. Men and women marry for flesh or gold, they put half their ...
— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan
... king of the seventy-ninth dynasty closed in a series of events with the record of which it is painful to pollute the pages of history. The weak old man wished to divide his kingdom into dowries for his three daughters; but on proposing this arrangement to them, finding it received by the youngest with coldness and reserve, he drove her from his court, and divided the kingdom between his two ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin
... each one of them as they are born, until Zeus, saved by Rhea, grows up and overcomes Cronos in some struggle which is not described. Cronos is forced to vomit up the children he had swallowed, and these with Zeus divide the universe between them, like a human estate. Two events mark the early reign of Zeus, the war with the Titans and the overthrow of Typhoeus, and as Zeus is still reigning the poet can only go on to give ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... history. This seems a very simple matter, and yet it is true that people become intensely absorbed in watching and living with such things. Add to these the veined elms, whose innumerable branches divide like the veins or the nerves of a physiological diagram, or like sprays of delicate seaweed slow turning from their winter outline to the soft green shading of summer; add to these the upspringing of the wheat and its ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies


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