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DIVIDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
Synonyms:
divided; divided up; shared; shared out
Classified under:
Similar:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
Example:
a divided highway
Synonyms:
divided; dual-lane
Classified under:
Similar:
multilane ((of roads and highways) having two or more lanes for traffic)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Separated into parts or pieces
Example:
opinions are divided
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
two-pronged (having two prongs)
trifid (divided into three lobes)
torn (disrupted by the pull of contrary forces)
three-pronged (having three prongs)
segmental (divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds)
sectional; sectioned (consisting of or divided into sections)
pronged; tined (having prongs or tines; usually used in combination)
pentamerous (divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members)
mullioned (of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone)
metameric; segmental; segmented (having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters)
many-chambered (having many chambers)
four-pronged (having four prongs)
episodic (of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes)
disjunct (having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects)
disjointed (taken apart at the joints)
disconnected; disunited; fragmented; split (having been divided; having the unity destroyed)
dichotomous (divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications)
bisulcate; cloven ((used of hooves) split, divided)
cleft (split or divided)
chambered (having compartmental chambers)
black-and-white (of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories)
bilocular; biloculate (divided into or containing two cells or chambers)
bifurcated (divided into or made up of two parts)
bifurcate; biramous; branched; forficate; fork-like; forked; pronged; prongy (resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches)
bifid (divided into two lobes)
bicameral; two-chambered (consisting of two chambers)
Also:
separate (independent; not united or joint)
segregated; unintegrated (separated or isolated from others or a main group)
distributive (serving to distribute or allot or disperse)
Antonym:
united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb divide
Context examples:
MEN2 is caused by a mutation (change) in a gene called RET, and is divided into three subtypes (MEN2A, MEN2B, and FMTC).
(MEN2, NCI Dictionary)
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)
They divided the men into three groups: a group who exercised before breakfast, a group who exercised after breakfast, and a control group who made no changes to their daily routines.
(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Further experiments showed that the nucleus and other material divided lobopodial cells into 2 compartments.
(New Mechanism of Cell Movement Revealed, NIH)
How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glumdalclitch, from whom one single hour had so far divided me!
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was divided on the cashing of it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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)
Each had put an equal share of capital into the outfitting, and the profits were to be divided equally.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Snow-white was married to him, and Rose-red to his brother, and they divided between them the great treasure which the dwarf had gathered together in his cave.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
