Divide
To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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.
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.
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
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.
To subject to arithmetical division.
To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
To cause separation; to disunite.
To break friendship; to fall out.
To have a share; to partake.
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.
A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
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Divide Quotations
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Audre Lorde
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde
Divide Translations
divide in Danish is dele
divide in Dutch is afscheiden, afzonderen, scheiden
divide in Finnish is jakaa
divide in German is scheiden, dividieren, teilen, aufteilen
divide in Italian is spartire, dividere
divide in Latin is tribuo, seco, distribuo, dido dididi didtum
divide in Norwegian is skille, dele, dividere
divide in Portuguese is dividir, divida
divide in Spanish is dividir
divide in Swedish is skifta, indela, dela, uppdela, skilja, avdela
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