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.
To subject to arithmetical division.
To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
To cause separation; to disunite.
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.
A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide.
In hydrologic terms, the high ground that forms the boundary of a watershed. A divide is also called a ridge.
To perform the operation of division.
(1) To separate into parts or groups. (2) To split up or sever. (3) To give out in shares or to apportion.
To separate into classes or parts, subject to mathematical division.
A ridge that separates two adjacent drainage basins.
A ridge separating two adjacent drainage basins.
a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
make a division or separation
force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
a ridge of land between two regions drained by different rivers or the higher ground which seperates two areas of drainage
the higher land that separates one drainage basin from another
shares its major root with the word widow. The root vidua refers to a separation. In widow the meaning is obvious, one who is separated from the spouse. A similar version of the word was often meant to describe the feeling of bereavement that a widow would feel. The prefix, di, of divide is a contraction of dis, a two based word meaning apart or away, as in the process of division in which equal parts are separated from each other. Notice that the vi part of vidua is also derived from a two word, and is the same root as in vigesimal (two tens), for things related to twenty. An individual is one who can not be divided.
The highest elevation of the land surface (usually a ridge) separating adjacent drainages
a ridge or high area of land that separates one drainage basin from another
The line of separation marking the boundary between two adjacent drainage systems.
A ridge of high ground separating two drainage basins emptied by different streams.