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Divide \Di*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing.] [L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. Device, Devise.]
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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
Divide the living child in two.
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To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.
Let it divide the waters from the waters.
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To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.
True justice unto people to divide.
--Spenser.Ye shall divide the land by lot.
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4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand.
--Mark iii. 24.Every family became now divided within itself.
--Prescott. To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.
(Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
(Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
(Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
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(Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.]
--Spenser.Syn: To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share.
Dividing \Di*vid"ing\, a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels.
Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.
Wiktionary
Serving to divide or separate. n. An act of division. v
(present participle of divide English)
WordNet
adj. serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line between two states" [syn: divisional]
serving simply to separate or partition; "a dividing partition" [syn: dividing(a)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "dividing".
Harvard paleontologist named Hallum Movius drew something called the Movius line, dividing the side with Acheulean tools from the one without.
It stretched around him, gluey, clinging, membranes of goo dividing into thin strings and sagging ropes that bound him with impossible things: wild fantasies of having been captured by a dozen Yuuzhan Vong warriors who all looked like Jacen Solo, mad images of sacrifice and aliens and Jaina and that Nom Anor character.
A thing that no one teaches any longer, or knows or is able to do, a thing that only Betz and I knew, and with me will probably disappear entirely, is the dividing and ending of syllables that must be effected under certain conditions.
Phil Barrett was distracted, dividing his attention between his prisoners and the entrance to the two trails that led through the blowdown and intersected in the clearing.
Silently they came out of the night, flying westward in these eastbound lanes, came by the hundreds, by the thousands, great winged multitudes, dividing into parallel currents that flowed around the flanks of the vehicle, forming a third current that swept across the hood, up and over the windshield, following the slipstream away into the night, as hushed as birds in a dream without sound.
Early in August he had made a fresh start from Mafeking, dividing his force into two columns, the command of the second being given to Von Donop.
Including compounds with these, the standard may be calculated by multiplying the standard got in the usual way, by the percentage of metal in the compound or impure substance, and dividing by 100.
Weston and then at the Academy in Enfield, grown up dividing the human world into those who were open, readable, trustworthy, v.
He had no sooner expired in his palace of Nicomedia, than the two emperors who were indebted for their purple to his favors, began to collect their forces, with the intention either of disputing, or of dividing, the dominions which he had left without a master.
Sabre-cut across the quadriceps femoris of right leg, dividing the tendinous and muscular structures.
Tiberius made his will, dividing his estate between Caius, the youngest son of Germanicus, and Tiberius Gemellus, the son of the second Drusus.
The specific gravity, then, may be determined by dividing the weight of a substance in grams by its volume in c.
Antipater did what he could, dividing the task of obtaining the bullion between his sons Phasael and Herod, and one Malichus, a secret supporter of a faction determined to rid Judaea of King Hyrcanus and his Idumaean sycophant Antipater.
To the right a spit of land stuck out like an impudent tongue, dividing the sea from the intertidal waters.
Along the dividing line the two types of the population, of course, merged and here was produced and is still to be found the Jerseyman of the composite type.