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To separate or be separated into parts
“A clever solution has one brother divide the cake, while the other brother gets to choose which half he wants.”
To share or be shared out in parts
“The other method was to divide profits among partners according to their individual productivity.”
To form a boundary between (two people or things)
“A bi-fold door is used to divide the living room from the home's exterior.”
To diverge into two or more separate paths
“The road would divide at Amguid, the main line going in a southeasterly to the Lake Tchad region.”
To categorize a group based on type or class
“The agenda is to divide students based on their academic achievement.”
To cause disagreement or fractions within a group
“Your inflammatory rhetoric serves only to divide an already fractured group.”
To disagree on a given issue or concept
“I was rather startled by how people would sharply divide along political lines.”
To break up into small pieces as the result of impact
To cause to feel less close or friendly
To chop or cut into very small pieces
To be, or cause to be, wide open
To be an identifying characteristic or mark of
To redistribute or reallocate
To reckon or calculate
To divide into, or organize according to, regions
To spread or expand outwards
Cut carefully with sharp instrument
Have a heated argument or disagreement
To differ, especially based on a type or class
To estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between
A boundary or gap between two things, sometimes figuratively
“The divide between our skillsets ensures that our roles within the partnership are clearly defined.”
A difference or disagreement between two or more groups or concepts
“There's a big divide between acting on stage and acting on film.”
An event or discovery representing an important stage or juncture
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