Definitions
1.nounA thing that divides."Stay on your side of the divide, please."
2.nounAn act of dividing."The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property."
3.nounA distancing between two people or things."There is a great divide between us."
4.nounA large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land."If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first."
5.nounThe topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
6.verbTo split or separate (something) into two or more parts."a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns"
7.verbTo share (something) by dividing it."How shall we divide this pie?"
8.verb(with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend)."If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2."
9.verbTo be a divisor of."3 divides 6."
10.verbTo separate into two or more parts.
11.verbOf a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
12.verbTo disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
13.verbTo break friendship; to fall out.
14.verbTo have a share; to partake.
15.verbTo vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, 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.
16.verbTo mark divisions on; to graduate."to divide a sextant"
17.verbTo play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.