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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more
parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant
or hostile; to set at variance. |
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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. |
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To subject to arithmetical division. |
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To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic
term. |
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To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a
sextant. |
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To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. |
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To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. |
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To cause separation; to disunite. |
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To break friendship; to fall out. |
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To have a share; to partake. |
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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. |
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A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two
streams; a watershed. |