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Divide into contrasting groups
Answer for the clue "Divide into contrasting groups ", 8 letters:
polarise
Word definitions for polarise in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cause to vibrate in a definite pattern; "polarize light waves" [syn: polarize ] cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions [syn: polarize ] become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation [syn: polarize ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling polarize English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As a result, Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years. ▪ Because glass is not a true crystalline solid, it will have no polarising effect on the light. ▪ Debate tended to polarise - New Right ...
Usage examples of polarise.
He then explained that Freud experts tended to be cagey because they are polarised between those who think Freud is unassailably great and those who think he took way too much drugs for his own good.
The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance showed concavity after the first showed convexity.
Light was pouring into the dimmed room through a flaw in the polarised glass of the window.
To the cat, who watches with a variety of unnatural senses, her head glows in the microwave spectrum with a gentle radiance of polarised emissions spread across a wide range of channels.
And he wanted to be with Ursula as free as with himself, single and clear and cool, yet balanced, polarised with her.