Synonyms:
divide, split, split_up, separate, dissever, carve_up
Meaning: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
Synonyms:
divide, fraction
Meaning: perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
Synonyms:
separate, divide
Meaning: act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
Synonyms:
separate, divide, part
Meaning: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
Synonyms:
separate, divide
Meaning: make a division or separation
Synonyms:
separate, disunite, divide, part
Meaning: force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
Usage examples
Then--why divide the treasure three ways?"
Divide your attention and you divide your power.
The equants might divide the line in any arbitrary ratio.
I will divide them into three lots; each of us will strap one upon his back.
If anyone asks me the further question, Why are we naturally so prone to divide quantity?
"Why divide the treasure two ways?" murmured Le Loup, wiping his blade upon the dead man's doublet.
As long as the German tribes dwelt in their forests, it did not occur to them to divide and appropriate the soil.
Get a chemist to rub down a medium-size croton bean with about 40 grains of sugar of milk, and divide into four powders.
First, we are aged respectively thirty-seven and seventeen; and he could not contemplate without quaking the twenty years that divide us.
He always used to say that he had been so long among people of that sort, that it would be very difficult for him to divide himself off from them.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Human, License CC BY-SA 4.0