Definition of divide
- v. t. - To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more
parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant
or hostile; to set at variance.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To subject to arithmetical division.
- v. t. - To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic
term.
- v. t. - To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a
sextant.
- v. t. - To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- v. i. - To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
- v. i. - To cause separation; to disunite.
- v. i. - To break friendship; to fall out.
- v. i. - To have a share; to partake.
- v. i. - 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.
- n. - A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two
streams; a watershed.