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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Divide \Di*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Divided}; p. pr & vb n. {Dividing}.] [L. dividere, divisum di- = dis- + root signifying to part cf Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf {Device}, {Devise}.] 1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts Divide the living child in two --1 Kings iii. 25. 2. 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. Let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i. 6. 3. 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. True justice unto people to divide. --Spenser. Ye shall divide the land by lot --Num. xxxiii 54. 4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. If a kingdom be divided against itself that kingdom can not stand --Mark iii. 24. Every family became now divided within itself --Prescott. 5. 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. 6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division. 7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. 8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on to graduate; as to divide a sextant. 9. (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.] --Spenser. Syn: To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part distribute; share. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Divide \Di*vide"\, v. i. 1. To be separated; to part to open to go asunder. --Milton. The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. --J. Peile. 2. To cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. --Bancroft. 3. To break friendship; to fall out --Shak. 4. To have a share; to partake. --Shak. 5. 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. The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals. --Gibbon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Divide \Di*vide"\, n. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: divide n : a line that divides two adjacent river systems [syn: {watershed}, {water parting}] v 1: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: {split}, {split up}, {separate}, {dissever}, {carve up}] [ant: {unite}] 2: perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" [syn: {fraction}] [ant: {multiply}] 3: act as a barrier between; stand between: "The mountain range divides the two countries" [syn: {separate}] 4: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" [syn: {separate}, {part}] 5: make a division or separation [syn: {separate}] 6: force, take or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [syn: {separate}, {disunite}, {part}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Divide, CO Zip code(s): 80814 Divide, MT Zip code(s): 59727
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