Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a conceptual separation or demarcation; "there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity" [syn: line, demarcation, contrast]
Usage examples of "dividing line".
The Sierra or ridge of the Black Hills, in fact, forms the dividing line between the waters of the Missouri and those of the Arkansas and the Mississippi, and gives rise to the Cheyenne, the Little Missouri, and several tributary streams of the Yellowstone.
Hiram kept a forefinger in the old booklet to mind his place, and as he stared out across the Choptank it became not merely the brown river he had always known but a dividing line between the Deep South, where slavery had flourished, and the modified slaveholding area from which escape had been possible, and the role played by Eden and her husband became clear: They were a lighthouse in the night.
There were others, too, whose dress or manner blurred the dividing line between those groups, but they were gone too quickly for Damien to identify.
There they stood in a row along that unseen dividing line, Aviendha as well.
She seized Sheriam's arm, but the flow of Fire the three had woven, tenuous even with them linked, touched the dividing line between dream and nightmare.
Setting out on that day, Captain Clark crossed a ridge which proved to be the dividing line between the Pacific and the Atlantic watershed.
Midnight is the dividing line between days, in the same sense that the present is the dividing line between the future and the past (think about this for a while).
Most of it's in the Black Quarter because it's to the west of the dividing line, but because it's such a long spit of land, the only way to reach it from the main part of the island is to go into the Gold Quarter and double back.
A dividing line has just been drawn across my life, and I must have the sympathy of someone who knows my past, or I shall go mad in my self-imposed solitude.
Betty had taken note of the exact time - and they had stopped where the secondary road branched off and doubled back to Dijon, at the top of the hoop, at the junction of the rim and the dividing line, exactly at eleven forty.
By means of this magical pass, a dividing line is established in the middle of the body, which separates left energy and right energy.
He always parks his car on the dividing line between two spaces so it won't get dented by other car doors.
Again, as at the Enns bridge, there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear-resembling the line separating the living from the dead- lay between them.
By measuring the dimensions of a man, we cannot possibly hope to deduce anything about the relative dimensions of inner being and outer space, nor even of their actual sizes (the original piece of paper might have been an infinite streamer, with the dividing line still two units long).