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Definition: Divide |
DivideNoun1. A line that divides two adjacent river systems. Verb1. Separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I". 2. Perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?". 3. Act as a barrier between; stand between: "The mountain range divides the two countries". 4. Come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated". 5. Make a division or separation. 6. Force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "divide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | Separation line between two basins. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Boundary between catchment areas or drainage areas. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | The high ground that forms the boundary of a watershed. A divide is also called a ridge. (references) |
Literature | Divide (2 syl.). When the members in the House of Commons interrupt a speaker by crying out divide, they mean, bring the debate to an end and put the motion to the vote - i.e. let the ayes divide from the noes, one going into one room or lobby, and the others into another. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | DIVIDE. To divide the house with one's wife; to give her the outside, and to keep all the inside to one's self, i.e. to turn her into the street. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: DivideSynonyms: water parting (n), watershed (n), carve up (v), dissever (v), disunite (v), fraction (v), part (v), separate (v), split (v), split up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: multiply (v), unite (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Verb: apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve. |
Arrangement | Class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register; (record); catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade. |
bisection | Verb: bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize. |
Go halves, divide with. | |
Choice | Vote, poll, hold up one's hand; divide. |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Numeration | Verb: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize. |
Part | Verb: part, divide, break; (disjoin);Verb: part, divide, break; (disjoin); partition; (apportion). |
Quadrisection | Verb: quarter, divide into four parts. |
Triplication | Verb: trisect, divide into three parts. |
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Screenplays | So we'll take Florida's 25 electoral votes and divide by 2. My daughter, Jeanie, is expecting her first child (The Sum of All Fears; writing credit: Paul Attanasio) The centuries that divide me shall be undone (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Now, that's a big divide between men and women (The Mind of the Married Man; writing credit: Claus Stirzenbecher) Now, the problem is, how to divide five Afghans from three mules and have two Englishmen left over (The Man Who Would Be King; writing credit: Gladys Hill; John Huston) They call that the Continental Divide. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Clever | Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Along the Great Divide (1951) North of the Great Divide (1950) Divide and Conquer (1943) Dawn on the Great Divide (1942) | |
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 | Transportation outfit - party of E.R. Martin International Boundary Commission Continental Divide to Lake of Woods. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Rock cairn signal at divide between two main forks of the Ladue River International Boundary Commission surveyor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Molas Divide in San Juan County, Colorado. Credit: Gene Alexander. |  | Fort Garland, and the divide between the San Luis and Wet-Mountain valleys / H.C. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coasting down Sneffles Divide. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | General view of Rocky Mountains west of Continental Divide seen from top of Logan Pass going onto the Sun highway. Glacier Park, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Continental Divide. Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Glacier National Park. On the Continental Divide. Kipps Summit. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Corona Moffat Road, Colo., crest of the Continental Divide, 11,666 ft. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Kach station and blockhouse near the divide between Harnai and Quetta. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Yawn; tired; exhausted; catch flies; divide; doze; drowse; expand; gap; gape; give; nap; part; sleep; snooze; spread; yaw; yawp; apathy; detachment; disgust; distaste; doldrums; dullness; ennui; fatigue; flatness; incuriosity; indifference; irksomeness; j. | | Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack. |
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Edgar Allan Poe | 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? |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. |
Henry Ford | Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. |
John Dryden | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. |
Oscar Wilde | It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. |
Rene Descartes | Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring these problems which divide us. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | They are not at all the less written you know, because you divide them |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Let us divide. |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The two great streets, which run cross and divide it into four quarters, are five feet wide |
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Health | Doctors used to divide RTA into four types. (references) | |
Generally, anticancer drugs affect cells that divide rapidly. (references) | ||
The more active the pathway, the faster cells grow and divide. (references) | ||
Business | Samsung and Thomson-CSF will divide the company on a 50/50 basis. (references) | |
Others divide it into software tools, packaged applications, and multimedia. (references) | ||
Some industry experts divide the software market into business and non-business software. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The University of Mostar remained divided into eastern and western branches, reflecting the continued ethnic divide in the city. (references) |
Laos | Although official pronouncements accepted the existence of religion, they emphasized its potential to divide, distract, or destabilize. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | Immediately after the march, General Guei met with the journalists and told them to concentrate on constructive criticism rather than on news that was false or could divide the country. (references) | |
Discrimination | India | The traditional caste system as well as differences of ethnicity, religion, and language deeply divide society. (references) |
Economic History | Serbia and Montenegro | This caused a great divide within the Montenegrin population. (references) |
Vanuatu | Government and society in Vanuatu tend to divide along linguistic--French and English--lines. (references) | |
Minorities | Chad | Societal discrimination continued to be practiced routinely by members of virtually all ethnic groups and was evident in patterns of buying and employment, in patterns of de facto segregation in urban neighborhoods, and in the paucity of interethnic marriages, especially across the north-south divide. (references) |
Togo | In particular discrimination against southerners by northerners and against northerners by southerners is evident in private sector hiring and buying patterns, in patterns of de facto ethnic segregation in urban neighborhoods, and in the relative rarity of marriages across the north-south ethnic divide. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nigeria | Security issues also divide the Presidency and the state executives. (references) |
Women | Turkey | Divorce law requires that the divorcing spouses divide their property according to the property registered in each spouse's name. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | Nonetheless, the Government asserts that it is willing to hold talks with the Dalai Lama as long as he ceases his activities to divide the country, recognizes that Tibet is an inseparable part of China, and that Taiwan is a province of China. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
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Rush Limbaugh | The Clinton administration sought every opportunity to divide the people of this country by group. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Some of the lines that divide the States and Territories of the United States from the British Provinces have been definitively fixed. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I have come to know the leaders of the world, and the great forces, the hatreds, the fears that divide the world. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The divide of race has been America's constant curse. |
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| "Divide" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 37.99% of the time. "Divide" is used about 1,572 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 37.99% | 597 | 10,692 |
| Noun (singular) | 32.08% | 504 | 11,979 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 29.54% | 465 | 12,668 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.38% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,572 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Divide, CO 2. Divide, MT |
Expressions using "divide": catchment divide ♦ climatic divide ♦ continental divide ♦ divide among ourselves ♦ divide and conquer ♦ divide and rule ♦ divide by ♦ divide by four ♦ Divide County ♦ divide in two ♦ divide into four ♦ divide into four parts ♦ divide into sections ♦ divide into three parts ♦ divide into two ♦ divide off ♦ divide out ♦ divide smth. equally ♦ divide smth. from smth. ♦ divide up ♦ divide up into plots ♦ divide with ♦ great Divide ♦ phreatic divide ♦ the great divide. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "divide": divide-and-rule. | |
Ending with "divide": sub-divide. | |
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| Language | Translations for "divide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afsonder (insulate, isolate, seclude, separate), afskei (secrete, separate). (various references) | |
Albanian | veçoj (abstract, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divorce, individualize, insulate, isolate, keep separate, partition, pick out, seclude, segregate, separate), shkallëzoj (graduate, scale, stagger), rrip toke (neck), pjesëtoj (dispart, distribute, portion), pjesëtohem, përçaj (disrupt, disunite, tear), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), ndahet (separate), gradoj (advance, calibrate, elevate, graduate, make headway, move forward, progress, promote, raise). (various references) | |
Arabic | حد فاصل (line), إنشعب, إنقسام (cleavage, division, fission, rent, schism, split), إنقسم (be divided, be shared, section, splinter, split), تجزأ (break up, split), توزيع (allocation, allotment, apportionment, delivery, dispensation, distribution, division, parceling, part), شق الماء, تفرق (break up, dissipation, disunion, part, parting, pass off, separate, split up, straggle, strewing, thin), فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), حصص (proportion, ration, share), وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, dispense, distribute, dole out, hand out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out), وقع الشقاق, قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), قسم (administration, allocate, allot, apportion, authority, bisect, break up, deal out, department, distribute, district, division, give out, halve, parcel, part, partition, portion, portion out, region, section, segment, separate, service, share, share out, split, subdivide, swear, take an oath), فرق (allot, apportion, be afraid, be scared, become afraid, deal out, difference, differentiate, diffuse, discrepancy, disperse, distinction, distribute, disunite, give out, parcel out, part, scatter, section, separate, strew about, variance), تقاسم (be divided, share). (various references) | |
Asturian | dividir (to divide). (various references) | |
Aymara | jaljayaña (to divide). (various references) | |
Basque | zatitu (divide to). (various references) | |
Bemba | ukwakanya (percent, to divide). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смърт (curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, grave, happy release, last, passing, quietus, tomb), споделям (communicate, partake, share in, sympathize, unbosom), разграфявам (rule off), различавам се (differ, disagree, diverge, vary), раздвоявам (uncouple), разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divorce, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, sever, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), гласувам (enact, poll, vote), вододел (water-parting, watershed), поделям (parcel, partition, portion, share), деля (cut, laminate, part, partition, portion, segment, separate, share). (various references) | |
Cebuano | magbahinbahin (to divide). (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma dibidi (to divide). (various references) | |
Chinese | 除 (do away with, except, remove, wipe out), 劈 (chop, hack, split in two, split open), 分給 , '分 (Divided, Dividing, Divisional). (various references) | |
Cornish | dyberth (to divide). (various references) | |
Czech | dìlit (share), rozvodí, rozpùlit (bisect, half), rozdíl (deficiency, difference, differential, disparity, distinction, excess, gulf, odds, variance, variety), rozdìlit (allot, apportion, carve up, deal out, disjoin, dismember, dispense, dissever, distribute, divide out, divide up, give away, hand around, hand out, parcel, parcel out, part, partition, portion, separate, share, split), propast (abysm, abyss, chasm, gulf, yawn), předìl. (various references) | |
Danish | dele (separate, share). (various references) | |
Dutch | scheiden (break up, disintegrate, get a divorce, get divorced, separate), afzonderen (insulate, isolate, seclude, separate), afscheiden (secrete, separate). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | raquichina (to divide). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dividi (separate, share), disigi (disintegrate, separate), apartigi (separate). (various references) | |
Faeroese | deila (rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, separate, share), skilja sundur (disintegrate, separate), býta sundur (separate, share). (various references) | |
Farsi | پخش کردن (Diffuse, Dispread, Distribute, Scatter, Shift, Spread, Strew), تقسیم کردن (Administer, Apportion, Compartment, Distribute, Impute, Intersect, Sector), جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sequester, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), اب پخشان . (various references) | |
Finnish | vedenjakaja (watershed). (various references) | |
French | partager, diviser (disintegrate), disperser (disband, disintegrate, disperse, dissipate, distribute, disturb). (various references) | |
Frisian | diele (separate, share, to divide), partsje (separate, share), ferpartsje (separate, share), ferdiele (separate, share), ôfskiede (separate), ôfsûnderje (separate). (various references) | |
German | teilen (apportion, halve, intersect, part, partition, section, separate, share, split, to apportion, to divide, to intersect, to share in), scheiden (depart, disintegrate, dissolve, divorce, leave, part, quit, scabbards, separate, to separate, vaginae, vaginas), dividieren (separate, share, to divide), gliedern (order, organize, paragraph, partition, separate, share, structure, subdivide), aufteilen (apportion, break down, carve up, divide out, divide up, divvy up, lay out, parcel, parcel out, partition, share out, slice up, split, split up, to apportion, to split). (various references) | |
Greek | χωρίζω (dissociate oneself from, disunite, divorce, part, separate, separate from, sequester, sever, split, split up, stratify, sunder), διχάζω (bifurcate), διαιρώ (disunite, divide among / between, split). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשסע (rend, split, tear, tear to pieces), לפל' (make discordant, separate, split), לפצל (cleave, crack, split), לחלוק (allot, apportion, distinguish, impart, share), לחלק (apportion, dispense, distribute, dole out, give out, hand out, parcel, part, partition, section, share, share out, sunder), לחצות (bisect, cross, cut, part, traverse), ל"תחלק (be divided, be shared, share, skid, slip), ל"פרי" (dissociate oneself from, mark off, part, separate, set apart, sever, sunder, uncouple), ל"ב"יל (distinguish, segregate, separate), פרשת "מים (watershed), חילק (distribute). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízválasztó (shed, water-parting, watershed), oszt (deal, separate, share, to check, to divide, to tally). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membagi (dismember, dissever, share). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | aviksiluni (to divide). (various references) | |
Italian | dividere (break up, cut, parcel out, part, partition, Rive, separate, share, slice, split, spread), separare (disjoin, disrupt, dissociate, part, separate, sunder, unlink), spartire (distribute, participate, share, share out, take, take part). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 離す (separate, to part), 劃 , 振り分け (center), 割 (10%, assignment, break, crack, cut, dilute, halve, percentage, profit, proportion, rate, ratio, rip, separate, smash, split, unit of ten percent), 剖 , 分水界 (watershed), 分水線 (watershed), 分水嶺 (watershed), 分水山脈 (watershed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼう (ancient Chinese imperial jewels, certain, fourth sign of Chinese zodiac, length, net, one, people, pole, rod, shaggy dog, shaggy hair, stick), ぶ"すいさ"みゃく (watershed), ぶ"すいせ" (watershed), ぶ"すいかい (watershed), ぶ"すいれい (watershed), ふりわけ (center), ほう (Act, cannon, emulate, follow, gun, imitate, information, male phoenix bird, punishment, retribution, salary, side), かつ (and, break, crack, cut, dilute, halve, rip, separate, smash, split, thirst, to gain victory, to win, yet), かく (angle, beautiful passage of literature, bishop, case, character, each, every, kernel, nucleus, status, stroke, to break, to chip, to crack, to depict, to describe, to draw, to lack, to paint, to perspire, to scratch, to sketch, to write), はなす (separate, to part, to separate, to set free, to speak). (various references) | |
Kongo | ku-vambula (to divide). (various references) | |
Korean | 분 하십시". (various references) | |
Macedonian | razdvojuva (to divide). (various references) | |
Malay | bagi ... membagi (separate, share). (various references) | |
Manx | scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder), charvaal (abyss, chasm, gulf). (various references) | |
Maori | (wehe)wehe-a (to divide). (various references) | |
Maya | kaast (to divide). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dividere, dele, skille. (various references) | |
Occitan | devesir. (various references) | |
Papago | tahpan (to divide). (various references) | |
Papiamen | dividí (separate, share), separá (separate), apartá (separate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ivideday.(various references) | |
Polish | dzielić (separate, share). (various references) | |
Portuguese | dividir (apportion, break, deal, disintegrate, dismember, dispart, dissever, divvy, intersect, lot, parcel out, part, separate, sever, share, slice, sunder, whack), separar (branch, break, buddle, calve, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnect, discriminate, disembody, disengage, disestablish, disintegrate, disjoin, dispart, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divvy, insulate, island, isolate, keep apart, outbreak, part, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sort, sort out, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink, wean). (various references) | |
Provencal | dividir (to divide). (various references) | |
Romanian | diviza (carve up, graduate, parcel out, partition, plot, plot out, separate, share, split). (various references) | |
Romansch | divider (to divide). (various references) | |
Ruanda | kugabura (to divide). (various references) | |
Russian | делить (apportion, carve, part, share). (various references) | |
Samoan | e vaevae (to divide). (various references) | |
Scottish | roinn (a share, distribute, division, impart, portion, section, separate, share). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deliti (dish, dish out, dish up, distribute, double up, separate, share), vododelnica (water-parting, watershed), razvođe (catchment), razjediniti (disincorporate, dissever, disunite, tear, unjoin), razdeliti (disjoin, dole, dole out, fractionate, give out, hand out, part, pass out, piece out, portion, split), raščlaniti (analyze, parse), podeliti (deal out, dispense, distribute, divvy, farm out), odvojiti (break off, detach, disconnect, ease off, mark out, segregate, separate, set off, sever, sort, spare, uncouple), izdeliti (parcel, separate). (various references) | |
Sicilian | spartiri (to divide). (various references) | |
Spanish | dividir (break up, come between, cut, cut up, delimit, disjoint, disperse, divide off, excrete, part, partition, portion, separate, share, sunder), separar (break off, break up, come between, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, get away, hive off, keep away, move away, open, pull apart, segregate, separate, sever, take away), apartar (abduce, alienate, allure, avert, deviate, distract, divert, draw aside, draw away, draw off, fob, head off, hold off, keep apart, look away, lure away, move aside, move away, move over, push away, refract, separate, set aside, shut off, stave off, take away, throw aside, to deviate, turn aside, turn away), segregar (cutout, segregate, separate), divisoria (leak), compartir (bear a part in, partake, partake of, separate, share). (various references) | |
Swazi | kw-éhlukánisa (to divide). (various references) | |
Swedish | dela (part, partition, portion, separate, share, split up), vattendelare (watershed), uppdela (carve up, fractionate, sunder), skifta (change, change or ex-, exchange, shift, vary), indela (zone), avdela (partition off, tell off). (various references) | |
Tagalog | hatíin (separate, share). (various references) | |
Thai | แบ่ง (sunder). (various references) | |
Turkish | bölmek (break down, carve up, cleave, divvy, divvy up, overslaugh, parcel, parcel out, partition, portion, reduce, rend, section, segment, separate, sever, share, slice, split). (various references) | |
Turkmen | taraz, saka (watershed), paяlasюmak, paяlamak, ьlemek (share), bцlmek (part). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | градуювати (calibrate, graduate, scale), голосувати (ballot, poll, thumb a lift, vote), відділяти (hedge off), вододіл (ridge, watershed), підрозділяти (section), поділ (break up, differentiation, division, fission, lap, parceling, parcelling), ділитися (divvy, go snaps, impart, share, snack), ділити (carve, go snaps, throw in, whack). (various references) | |
Welsh | ymwahanu (part, separate), ymrannu (part, separate), rhannu (allocate, apportion, distribute, share), parthu (part), gwahanu (part, separate), fforchogi (fork). (various references) | |
Yucatec | hatsik (separate, share). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. gur, ba. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | zâzu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abiungere, abrumpere, abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, bipertitum, confidere, confidimus, confidit, describant, describe, describeretur, describes, describet, describite, descripserunt, descripsi, descripsimus, descripsit, descripsitque, descripta, descripti, descriptumque, dido dididi didtum, dispertiam, dispertiatur, dispertitae, dispertitus, distincta, distincte, distinctum, distinctus, distinguo, distinxerunt, distinxit, distribuatis, distribuent, distribuerent, distribueret, distribuero, distribuerunt, distribui, distribuit, distribuite, distribuo, distributi, dividam, dividamur, dividant, dividat, dividatur, divide, dividebant, dividebantur, dividebat, dividebatque, dividens, divident, dividentem, dividentes, dividentque, dividentur, dividere, dividerent, divideres, divideret, divides, dividesque, dividet, dividetis, dividetur, dividit, dividite, dividitur, dividunt, dividuntur, divisa, divisae, divisam, divisaque, diviserunt, diviseruntque, divisi, divisique, divisis, divisisset, divisisti, divisit, divisitque, diviso, divisum, divisus, findit, findunt, fissuras, impertire, scindam, scindamus, scindendi, scindens, scindentes, scindentur, scindere, scindes, scindet, scindetur, scindit, scindite, scinditur, scissa, scissae, scissas, scissis, scissisque, scisso, scissos, scissum, scissura, scissuras, scissus, seco, seco, secui, sectum, secui, segregare, seiungere, separa, separabat, separabis, separabit, separabitis, separabitur, separabunt, separabuntur, separamini, separant, separantur, separare, separaret, separari, separasti, separastis, separat, separata, separatae, separate, separati, separatis, separato, separator, separatum, separatur, separatus, separatusque, separaveras, separaverat, separaveris, separaverunt, separavi, separavit, separetur, sortiri, tribu, tribuam, tribuat, tribuatur, tribue, tribuebam, tribuebat, tribuendo, tribuens, tribuerat, tribuerit, tribuet, tribui, tribuisti, tribuit, tribuitis, tribuo, tributa, tributi, tributis, tributo, tributorum, tributum. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | departire. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | retaillier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 22, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai dexamenoV pothrion eucaristhsaV eipen labete touto kai diamerisate eautoiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et accepto calice gratias egit et dixit accipite et dividite inter vos |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And onfeng calice and þancas dyde and cwæð; Onfoð and dælað betwux eow: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he hadde take the cuppe, he dide gracis, and seide, Take ye, and departe ye among you; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he toke the cup and gave thankes and sayde. Take this and devyde it amonge you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he took a cup and, having given praise, he said, Make division of this among yourselves; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 22, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya mikuha sa kopa, ug sa nakapasalamat na siya, miingon kanila, "Dawata ug bahina ninyo kini alang kaninyo; |
| Chinese | 耶 穌 接 過 杯 來 、 祝 謝 了 、 說 、 們 拿 這 個 、 大 家 分 著 喝 。 |
| Croatian | I uze èašu, zahvali i reèe: "Uzmite je i razdijelite meðu sobom. |
| Danish | Og han tog en Kalk, takkede og sagde: "Tager dette, og deler det imellem eder! |
| Dutch | En als Hij een drinkbeker genomen had, en gedankt had, zeide Hij: Neemt dezen, en deelt hem onder ulieden. |
| Finnish | Ja hän otti maljan, kiitti ja sanoi: "Ottakaa tämä ja jakakaa keskenänne. |
| French | Et, ayant pris une coupe et rendu grâces, il dit: Prenez cette coupe, et distribuez-la entre vous; |
| German | Und er nahm den Kelch, dankte und sprach: Nehmet ihn und teilet ihn unter euch; |
| Haitian Creole | Apre sa, li pran yon gode, li di Bondye mèsi, epi l' di: Men gode sa a, separe l' bay chak moun nan nou; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah itu Yesus mengangkat piala anggur, lalu mengucap doa syukur kepada Allah, kemudian berkata, "Ambillah ini, dan bagi-bagikanlah; |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka disambut-Nya cawan minuman, lalu diucapkan-Nya syukur, serta berkata, "Ambillah ini, bahagikan di antara kamu! |
| Italian | E preso un calice, rese grazie e disse: «Prendetelo e distribuitelo tra voi, |
| Maori | Na ka mau ia ki te kapu, ka mutu te whakawhetai, ka mea ia, Tangohia tenei, tuwhaina ma koutou: |
| Norwegian | Og han tok en kalk, takket og sa: Ta dette og del det mellem eder! |
| Rumanian | Wi a luat un pahar, a mulyqmit lui Dumnezeu, wi a zis: ,,Luayi paharul acesta, wi kmpqryiyi -l kntre voi; |
| Shuar | Nuyá pininkian achik, Yúsan yuminkias, ni unuiniamurin Tímiayi "Ju pinin achikrum sunaisatarum. |
| Swahili | Kisha akatwaa kikombe, akashukuru akasema, "Pokeeni, mgawanye ninyi kwa ninyi. |
| Swedish | Och han lät giva sig en kalk och tackade Gud och sade: "Tagen detta och delen eder emellan; |
| Uma | Oti toe, Yesus mpo'ala' sangkiri' to ihia' anggur, na'uli' tarima kasi hi Alata'ala, pai' na'uli' -raka ana'guru-na: "Ala' -mi tohe'i pai' nibagi-bagi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "divide": divided, dividedly, dividedness, dividednesses, dividend, dividendless, dividends, divider, dividers, divides. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "divide": redivide, subdivide. (additional references) | |
Words containing "divide": redivided, redivides, subdivided, subdivider, subdividers, subdivides, undivided. (additional references) | |
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"Divide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: davide, Davidi, Davidov, davydd, Davydov, dervide, devid, devide, devive, dicide, dicite, divage, divice, dividen, divideo, divie, divise, divize, divvie, dovie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "divide" (pronounced divī"d) |
| 3 | -v ī" d | provide, subdivide, vide, vied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-v" | |
-1 letter: didie, dived, ivied. | |
-2 letters: died, dive, vide, vied. | |
-3 letters: dev, did, die, vie. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-i-v" | |
+1 letter: divided, divider, divides, divined, divvied. | |
+2 letters: additive, dividend, dividers, midwived, redivide, reduviid. | |
+3 letters: addictive, additives, dividable, dividedly, dividends, divinised, divinized, invalided, redivided, redivides, reduviids, subdivide, undivided, videodisc, videodisk. | |
+4 letters: additively, disinvited, misadvised, redividing, subdivided, subdivider, subdivides, videodiscs, videodisks, vilipended, vindicated, zidovudine. | |
+5 letters: derivatized, devitalized, devitrified, disbelieved, disinvested, divaricated, diversified, dividedness, individuate, invalidated, nonadditive, overbidding, subdividers, zidovudines. | |
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