Definition of divide

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Divide (v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.

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Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard..
Wing-leaved :: Wing-leaved (a.) Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
Horoscope :: Horoscope (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune..
Divided :: Divided (imp. & p. p.) of Divid.
Triglyph :: Triglyph (n.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature..
Seventieth :: Seventieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.
Apportion :: Apportion (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments..
Fork :: Fork (v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks..
Fission :: Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..
Twentieth :: Twentieth (a.) Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided..
Squarrose :: Squarrose (a.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf..
Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy
Department :: Department (v. i.) A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire..
Sweepstakes :: Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed..
Dividedly :: Dividedly (adv.) Separately; in a divided manner.
Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To divide; to distribute.
Gunter''s Line :: Gunter's line () A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers..
Domino :: Domino (n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played.
Divisionor :: Divisionor (n.) One who divides or makes division.
Two-parted :: Two-parted (a.) Divided from the border to the base into two distinct parts; bipartite.
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