Present participle for 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.”
Present participle for to share or be shared out in parts
“The other method was to divide profits among partners according to their individual productivity.”
Present participle for 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.”
Present participle for 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.”
Present participle for to categorize a group based on type or class
“The agenda is to divide students based on their academic achievement.”
Present participle for to cause disagreement or fractions within a group
“Your inflammatory rhetoric serves only to divide an already fractured group.”
Present participle for to disagree on a given issue or concept
“I was rather startled by how people would sharply divide along political lines.”
The action of dividing something into parts
The act, or result, of comparing two things or people
The act or process of determining the amount or number of something mathematically
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