divide

verb divides · dividing · divided · divide

1. transitive To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
2. intransitive To separate into two or more parts.
3. transitive To share (something) by dividing it. How shall we divide this pie?
4. transitive To cause (a group of people) to disagree. Words divide us; Wiktionary unites us.
5. transitive To calculate the quotient number by which another one (the divisor) is multiplied to produce a second number (the dividend). If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
6. transitive To be a divisor of. 3 divides 6.
7. intransitive To reproduce by either mitosis or meiosis. [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 were d
8. intransitive To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
9. intransitive, obsolete To break friendship; to fall out. love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide.
10. obsolete To have a share; to partake. Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
11. intransitive 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. The debates were conducted with decent freedom; and the emperors themselves, who gloried in the name of senators, sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
12. transitive To split (something) into regular steps or intervals; to mark with degrees; to graduate. to divide a sextant
13. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. About the bed sweet musicke did divide

Similar: becut, decide, discerp, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, divide, divorce, divvy up, part, partition, piecemeal

noun divides

1. A thing that divides. Stay on your side of the divide, please.
2. An act of dividing. The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
3. A distancing between two people or things. There is a great divide between us.
4. A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land. If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
5. The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.