'Divide' definitions:

Definition of 'divide'

(from WordNet)
noun
A serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
noun
A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems [syn: watershed, water parting, divide]
verb
Separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unify, unite]
verb
Perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" [syn: divide, fraction] [ant: multiply]
verb
Act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" [syn: separate, divide]
verb
Come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" [syn: separate, divide, part]
verb
Make a division or separation [syn: separate, divide]
verb
Force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [syn: separate, disunite, divide, part]

Definition of 'Divide'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.]
  • 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. [1913 Webster]
  • Divide the living child in two. --1 Kings iii. 25. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • True justice unto people to divide. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Ye shall divide the land by lot. --Num. xxxiii. 54. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. [1913 Webster]
  • If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand. --Mark iii. 24. [1913 Webster]
  • Every family became now divided within itself. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. (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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Divide'

From: GCIDE
  • Divide \Di*vide"\, n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Definition of 'Divide'

From: GCIDE
  • Divide \Di*vide"\, v. i.
  • 1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. --J. Peile. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cause separation; to disunite. [1913 Webster]
  • A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To break friendship; to fall out. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To have a share; to partake. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To vote, as in the British Parliament, 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 noes. [1913 Webster]
  • The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'divide'

From: GCIDE
  • Watershed \Wa"ter*shed`\, n. [Cf. G. wasserscheide; wasser water + scheide a place where two things separate, fr. scheiden to separate.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin; -- called also divide and water parting. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • 3. a point in time marking an important transition between two situations, or phases of an activity; a turning point. [PJC]

Synonyms of 'divide'

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Divide -- U.S. County in North Dakota

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Divide -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000) :
2283
Housing Units (2000) :
1469
Land area (2000) :
1259.529393 sq. miles (3262.166014 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
34.647017 sq. miles (89.735358 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1294.176410 sq. miles (3351.901372 sq. km)
Located within :
North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location :
48.828242 N, 103.454207 W