Divide - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |dɪˈvaɪd|  American pronunciation of the word divide
Brit.  |dɪˈvaɪd|  British pronunciation of the word divide

noun

- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems (syn: watershed)

verb

- separate into parts or portions (syn: dissever, separate, split, split up)
divide the cake into three equal parts
- perform a division (syn: fraction)
Can you divide 49 by seven?
- act as a barrier between; stand between (syn: separate)
The mountain range divides the two countries
- come apart (syn: part, separate)
- make a division or separation (syn: separate)
- force, take, or pull apart (syn: disunite, part, separate)

Extra examples

She divided the pie into eight pieces.

The equator divides the Earth into two hemispheres.

The river divides after the bridge.

A tall fence divides the two yards.

The room was divided into cubicles.

The cells began to divide out of control.

The world divided into the idle rich and the labouring poor.

We reached the spot at which our ways divided.

Divide the cake equally among all the children.

We should divide up the costs equally between us.

I want to build a fence to divide the flower garden from the vegetable garden.

This part of the field has been divided off with a fence, to keep the cows in.

Tracts of farmland were divided by stone walls.

The war divided children from their parents.

The Gulf war has divided the Islamic right in Turkey.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: divide
he/she/it: divides
present participle: dividing
past tense: divided
past participle: divided
noun
singular: divide
plural: divides
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