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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Divide \Di*vide"\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Divided \Di*vid"ed\, adjective
1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
2. (Bot.) Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
divided
adjective
1: separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided" [ant: {united}]
2: having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions; "a divided highway" [syn: {dual-lane}]
3: distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose [syn: {divided up}, {shared}, {shared out}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "divided": alienated, bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, cleft, cloven, detached, dichotomous, dimidiate, disaffected, disarticulated, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disunited, divorced, estranged, forked, forking, halved, irreconcilable, isolated, ramified, removed, riven, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, split, torn
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