divide
/dɪˈvaɪd/ verb A2- To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. · a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
- To separate into two or more parts.
- To share (something) by dividing it. · How shall we divide this pie?
- To cause (a group of people) to disagree. · Words divide us; Wiktionary unites us.
- To calculate the quotient number by which another one (the divisor) is multiplied to produce a second number (the dividend). · If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
- To be a divisor of. · 3 divides 6.
- To reproduce by either mitosis or meiosis.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
Plural divide · He/she/it divides · Past divided · Past participle divided · -ing form dividing
Verb forms
- Base form
- divide
- He/she/it
- divides
- Past
- divided
- Past participle
- divided
- -ing form
- dividing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“It’s a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot,” said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
And yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you.
They had hardly been walking an hour when they saw before them a great ditch that crossed the road and divided the forest as far as they could see on either side.
Darcy was almost as far from her as the table could divide them.
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