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DIVIDE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

Synonyms:

divide; water parting; watershed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("divide" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "divide"):

continental divide (the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico))

Instance hyponyms:

Great Divide (that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States)

Derivation:

divide (act as a barrier between; stand between)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("divide" is a kind of...):

disagreement; dissension; dissonance (a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perform a division

Example:

Can you divide 49 by seven?

Synonyms:

divide; fraction

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "divide" is one way to...):

calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; reckon; work out (make a mathematical calculation or computation)

Domain category:

arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "divide"):

halve (divide by two; divide into halves)

quarter (divide by four; divide into quarters)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

multiply (combine by multiplication)

Derivation:

divisible (capable of being or liable to be divided or separated)

division (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Force, take, or pull apart

Example:

Moses parted the Red Sea

Synonyms:

disunite; divide; part; separate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "divide" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Cause:

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "divide"):

bust; rupture; snap; tear (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

break up; sever (set or keep apart)

break (separate from a clinch, in boxing)

gin (separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin)

joint (separate (meat) at the joint)

tear (to separate or be separated by force)

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

disconnect (make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten)

disarticulate; disjoint (separate at the joints)

disjoin; disjoint (make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of)

isolate; keep apart; sequester; sequestrate; set apart (set apart from others)

polarise; polarize (cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions)

compartmentalise; compartmentalize; cut up (separate into isolated compartments or categories)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Come apart

Example:

The two pieces that we had glued separated

Synonyms:

divide; part; separate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "divide" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "divide"):

gerrymander (divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts)

discerp; dismember; take apart (divide into pieces)

partition; partition off (divide into parts, pieces, or sections)

section; segment (divide into segments)

reduce (undergo meiosis)

segment (divide or split up)

segregate (divide from the main body or mass and collect)

come away; come off; detach (come to be detached)

disjoin; disjoint (become separated, disconnected or disjoint)

break away; break off; chip; chip off; come off (break off (a piece from a whole))

break up; calve (release ice)

polarise; polarize (become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation)

subdivide (form into subdivisions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

divisible (capable of being or liable to be divided or separated)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make a division or separation

Synonyms:

divide; separate

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "divide"):

close off; shut off (isolate or separate)

detach (separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment)

rail; rail off (separate with a railing)

break up; dispel; disperse; dissipate; scatter (to cause to separate and go in different directions)

break (destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments)

partition; zone (separate or apportion into sections)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

divisible (capable of being or liable to be divided or separated)

division (the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Separate into parts or portions

Example:

The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I

Synonyms:

carve up; dissever; divide; separate; split; split up

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "divide" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "divide"):

subdivide (divide into smaller and smaller pieces)

format; initialise; initialize (divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data)

sectionalise; sectionalize (divide into sections, especially into geographic sections)

triangulate (divide into triangles or give a triangular form to)

unitise; unitize (divide (bulk material) and process as units)

lot (divide into lots, as of land, for example)

parcel (divide into parts)

sliver; splinter (divide into slivers or splinters)

paragraph (divide into paragraphs, as of text)

canton (divide into cantons, of a country)

Balkanise; Balkanize (divide a territory into small, hostile states)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

Derivation:

divider (a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another))

divider (a person who separates something into parts or groups)

divider (a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics)

divisible (capable of being or liable to be divided or separated)

division (the act or process of dividing)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Act as a barrier between; stand between

Example:

The mountain range divides the two countries

Synonyms:

divide; separate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

divide (a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems)

divider (a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another))

Credits

 Context examples: 

The lawn is thirty yards across, and is only divided from the highway by a low wall with an iron rail above it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our tears were not for the trials (hers so much the greater) through which we had come to be thus, but for the rapture of being thus, never to be divided more!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But the other kind was divided.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A dose calculation unit expressed in micrograms per milliliter, divided by milligram per kilogram per day.

(Microgram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram Per Day, NCI Thesaurus)

Milligrams per milliliter (concentration), divided by milligrams per kilogram (dose normalized by weight).

(Milligram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milligrams per milliliter, divided by milligram per kilogram.

(Milligram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

Micrograms per milliliter (concentration), divided by milligrams per kilogram (dose normalized by weight).

(Microgram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A dose calculation unit expressed in micrograms per milliliter, divided by milligram per kilogram.

(Microgram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

It is often divided into types I and II, and sometimes III.

(Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The physical association of each protein is divided into two classes: integral and peripheral.

(Membrane Protein, NCI Thesaurus)