divide
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
divide/dɪˈvʌɪd/
▶verb
- 1 separate or be separated into parts.
■ (usu. divide something between) separate into portions and share out.
■ form a boundary between.
- 2 disagree or cause to disagree.
- 3 Mathematics find how many times (a number) contains another: 36 divided by 2 equals 18.
■ (of a number) be susceptible of division without a remainder.
- 1 an instance of dividing or being divided.
- 2 chiefly US a ridge or line of high ground forming the division between two valleys or river systems.
– phrases
divide and rule (or conquer) maintain control over subordinates or opponents by encouraging dissent between them so that they do not unite in opposition.
divide and rule (or conquer) maintain control over subordinates or opponents by encouraging dissent between them so that they do not unite in opposition.
– derivatives
divided adjective.
divided adjective.
– origin ME: from L. divis-, dividere ‘force apart, remove’.
'divide' also found in these Oxford entries:
aliquot
- allot
- apportion
- articulate
- Balkanize
- bifurcate
- bisect
- branch
- camp
- carve
- chequer
- chunk
- cleave
- compartment
- compartmentalize
- cumulative voting
- cut
- deal
- decentralize
- decussate
- delaminate
- demassify
- depart
- device
- devise
- digital divide
- dismember
- disperse
- dissever
- distribute
- district
- dividend
- divisive
- fork
- fractionalize
- fractionate
- fritter
- furcate
- geodesy
- great divide
- halve
- indent
- individual
- interleave
- intersect
- kismet
- lot
- net
- nome
