'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
verb
Act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries" [syn: separate, divide]
verb
verb
Make a division or separation [syn: separate, divide]
verb
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrate,
- abrupt,
- add,
- aggravate,
- agree to differ,
- agree to disagree,
- algebraize,
- alienate,
- allocate,
- allot,
- alphabetize,
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- apportion,
- appraise,
- appreciate,
- arrange,
- assay,
- assess,
- assign,
- assort,
- atomize,
- ballot,
- be at variance,
- be in dissent,
- be partners in,
- beg to differ,
- bifurcate,
- bisect,
- bolt,
- bound,
- branch,
- branch out,
- break down,
- break up,
- break with,
- broach,
- by two,
- calculate,
- calibrate,
- caliper,
- canvass,
- carve,
- carve up,
- cast,
- cast a ballot,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- catalog,
- categorize,
- change,
- check a parameter,
- chink,
- chop,
- chop logic,
- cipher,
- circumscribe,
- class,
- classify,
- cleave,
- codify,
- collate,
- come between,
- compute,
- Continental Divide,
- contradistinguish,
- cooperate,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- count,
- crack,
- crevasse,
- cull out,
- cut,
- cut adrift,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- cut open,
- cut out,
- cut up,
- deal,
- deal out,
- decrease,
- delete,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- depart,
- deploy,
- desynonymize,
- detach,
- dial,
- dichotomize,
- differ,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- digest,
- dimidiate,
- disaccord,
- disaffect,
- disagree,
- disagree with,
- disarticulate,
- disburse,
- disconnect,
- discord,
- discord with,
- discriminate,
- disengage,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- disjoint,
- dispart,
- dispense,
- disperse,
- dissect,
- dissent,
- dissent from,
- dissociate,
- distinguish,
- distribute,
- district,
- disunite,
- divaricate,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- divide into shares,
- divide on,
- divide up,
- divide with,
- divorce,
- divvy,
- divvy up,
- divvy up with,
- dole out,
- dope out,
- draw the line,
- drop out,
- eject,
- enclose,
- estimate,
- estrange,
- evaluate,
- expel,
- extract roots,
- fall out,
- fan out,
- fan the flame,
- fathom,
- fence off,
- figure,
- figure in,
- figure out,
- file,
- fission,
- fissure,
- fix,
- fly open,
- fork,
- gauge,
- ghettoize,
- gin,
- give out,
- go away,
- go even stephen,
- go fifty-fifty,
- go halvers,
- go halves,
- go off,
- go shares,
- gradate,
- grade,
- graduate,
- Great Divide,
- group,
- halve,
- have a falling-out,
- in half,
- incise,
- increase,
- index,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- insulate,
- irritate,
- isolate,
- keep apart,
- keep aside,
- lay aside,
- lay open,
- leave,
- light the fuse,
- limit,
- list,
- make a distinction,
- make trouble,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- measure,
- measure out,
- mensurate,
- mete,
- mete out,
- meter,
- modify,
- multiply,
- not agree,
- number,
- ope,
- open,
- open up,
- oppose,
- order,
- organize,
- outspread,
- pace,
- panel,
- parcel,
- parcel out,
- part,
- part company,
- particularize,
- partition,
- personalize,
- pick out,
- pigeonhole,
- pit against,
- place,
- plumb,
- plump,
- poll,
- portion,
- prize,
- probe,
- prorate,
- provoke,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pull out,
- put aside,
- put in order,
- quantify,
- quantize,
- quarantine,
- quota,
- ramify,
- range,
- rank,
- rate,
- ration,
- reckon,
- reduce,
- reduce to elements,
- refine a distinction,
- rent,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- rift,
- rip,
- rive,
- score,
- screen,
- screen out,
- secede,
- seclude,
- section,
- segment,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- sequester,
- set a limit,
- set against,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set at odds,
- set at variance,
- set off,
- set on,
- sever,
- severalize,
- share,
- share in,
- share out,
- share with,
- shift,
- shut off,
- sic on,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- size,
- size up,
- slice,
- slice the pie,
- slice up,
- slit,
- sort,
- sort out,
- sound,
- sow dissension,
- span,
- specialize,
- splay,
- split,
- split hairs,
- split in two,
- split the difference,
- split up,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- stand apart,
- stand aside,
- step,
- step aside,
- stir up trouble,
- subdivide,
- subordinate,
- subtilize,
- subtract,
- sunder,
- surround,
- survey,
- swing open,
- tabulate,
- take a reading,
- take account of,
- take exception,
- take issue,
- tally,
- tap,
- tear,
- tear open,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- throw off,
- throw open,
- throw out,
- transect,
- triangulate,
- type,
- uncouple,
- unyoke,
- valuate,
- value,
- vary,
- vote,
- wall off,
- water parting,
- watershed,
- weigh,
- winnow,
- withdraw,
- withhold assent,
- work out,
- zone
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
Words containing 'Divide'
- Dividable,
- Dividant,
- Divided,
- Dividedly,
- Divident,
- Divider,
- Dividing,
- Dividingly,
- divided up,
- Divide County,
- Divide, ND,
- Dividing engine,
- Dividing sinker,
- Hair divider,
- continental divide,
- divided highway,
- dividing line,
- great divide,
- potential divider,
- voltage divider,
- Divide County, ND,
- great dividing range,
- scales compasses dividers,
- divided divided up shared shared out on the basis of a plan or purpose