Word Finder - divided

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To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

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a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns

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To share (something) by dividing it.

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How shall we divide this pie?

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(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).

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If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.

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To be a divisor of.

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3 divides 6.

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To separate into two or more parts.

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Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

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To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

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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 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.

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To mark divisions on; to graduate.

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to divide a sextant

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To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

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Separated or split into pieces

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Having conflicting interests or emotions

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Disunited

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(of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median

We divided up the buildings into small apartments.

They met when the classes were divided after the war.

He glanced at the warriors around him, wondering if the people's loyalties were as divided as Allin and Lean seemed to think they were.

For the next hour, his attention was divided between her and Princess.

Justin divided his attention between them, obviously waiting for an explanation.

She was in a small clearing divided by a fallen dead tree.

I ride with a divided skirt, and so does my teacher; but it would be easier for her to mount a man's wheel than for me; so, if it could be arranged to have the ladies' seat behind, I think it would be better....

They are divided into two classes.

Alex divided his attention between a very attentive Destiny and a reserved Carmen.

Allen walked toward the door, his attention divided between Howard and Lisa.

Feudalism was abolished in 1836, and in 1848 complete political union with Piedmont was granted, the viceregal government being suppressed, and the island being divided into three divisions of which Cagliari, Sassari and Nuoro were the capitals.

The sailors divided his money among themselves; and the ship sailed on.

Alex opened the passenger door and climbed into the car, his attention equally divided between the retreating figure and Carmen.

A green is divided into spaces usually from 18 to 21 ft.

Then the Witches divided up the kingdom, and ruled the four parts of it until you came here.

And the rest he divided among the young women who took care of his mother.

In 1902, an American named Walter Sutton noticed that chromosomes duplicated themselves before cells divided so that each new cell had a full copy of the chromosomes.

The ceiling above us was divided with half the room beneath a concrete slab and the remainder under what appeared as thick planking, well out of reach to either of us.

His bike awaited, but when he divided the hundred promised miles a week by seven, the number was daunting.

The standard day is longer than ours, about thirty hours instead of twenty-four, with that divided evenly between day and night.

There were two units on either side, on both floors, divided by a central hall and staircase.

He pushed her hand away and divided his attention between wiping his suit off and coughing.

By understanding and combining what was great and valuable in those divided and scattered endeavours, he became the true successor of Leibnitz.

These two groups are divided by the deep valley of the Tirso, the only real river in Sardinia, which has a course of 94 m.

The island had (probably since the end of the 9th century) been divided into four districts - Cagliari, Arborea, Torres (or Logudoro) and Gallura - each under a giudice or remained a prisoner at Bologna until his death.

As before, the sums paid out in respect of guaranteed dividend were to be regarded as advances which were to be paid back to the state out of the profits made, when these permitted, and when the advances were wiped out, the profits, after payment of a certain dividend, were to be divided between the state and the railway, two-thirds going to the former and one-third to the latter.

Police.Broadly, the police of France may be divided into two great branchesadministrative police (la police administrative) and judicial police (la police judic-iaire), the former having for its object the maintenance of order, and the latter charged with tracing out offenders, collecting the proofs, and delivering the presumed offenders to the tribunals charged by law with their trial and punishment.

In Paris the municipal police are divided among the twenty arrondissements, which the uniform police patrol.

He selects for himself a staff of civilians (the cab-met du ministre), which is divided into bureaux for the despatch of business.

The French coast is divided into five naval arrondissements, which have their headquarters at th.e five naval ports, of which Cherbourg, Brest, and Toulon.

Each arrondissement is divided into sousarrondissements, having their centres in the great commercial ports, but this arrangement is purely for the embodiment of the men of the Inscription Maritime, and has nothing to do with the dockyards as naval arsenals.

In regard to the constitution and maintenance of the naval forces, the administration of the arsenals is divided into three principal departments, the first concerned with naval construction, the second with ordnance, including gun-mountings and small-arms, and the third with the so-called submarine defences, dealing with all torpedo materiel.

The fleet is divided into the Mediterranean squadron, the Northern squadron, the Atlantic division, the Far Eastern division, the Pacific division, the Indian Ocean division, the Cochin China division.

France is divided into sixteen academies or educational districts, having their centres at the seats of the universities.

The system of studies-reorganized in 1902embraces a full curriculum of seven years, which is divided into two periods.

As soon as the march of conquest had reached its natural limit, slavery began to be modified; and when the empire was divided into the several states which had grown up under it, and the system of defence characteristic of the middle ages was substituted for the aggressive system of antiquity, slavery gradually disappeared, and was replaced by serfdom.

Local laws, subject to approval by the legislative council of Fiji, are promulgated by a regulation board, composed of the commissioner, native chiefs of the seven districts into which the island is divided, and two native magistrates.

On the death of the usurper Rudolph (Raoul), Ralph of Burgundy, Hugh the Great, count of Paris, and the other nobles between whom France was divided, chose Louis for their king, and the lad was brought over from England and consecrated at Laon on the 19th of June 936.

The third descended to the earls of Arundel, falling to the share of the duke of Norfolk in 1415, and being divided in 1502 between the families of Howard and Berkeley.

Existing marsupials may be divided into three main divisions or sub-orders, of which the first, or Polyprotodontia, is common to America and Australasia; the second, or Paucituberculata, is exclusively South American; while the third, or Diprotodonts, is as solely Australasian inclusive of a few in the eastern Austro-Malayan islands.

A dry season, which lasts from May to October, is followed by a rainy season, divided into the early winter and latter rains.

When Albert died in 1260 Saxony was divided.

It forms, with the islands of Syme, Casos, Carpathos, Castelorizo, Telos and Charki, one of the four sanjaks into which the Archipelago vilayet of Turkey is divided.

But they have been separated by the foundering of the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea, which divided the continent of Australia from the islands of the Australasian festoon; and the foundering of the band across Australia, from the Gulf of Carpentaria, through western Queensland and western New South Wales, to the lower basin of the Murray, has separated the Archean areas of eastern and western Australia.

Climatically, New South Wales is divided into three marked divisions.

It was not long, however, before the party itself became divided on the fiscal question; and a Protectionist government coming into power, about half the Labour members gave it consistent support and enabled it to maintain office for about three years, the party as a political unit being thus destroyed.

A square tower rises from a central part of the platform to a height of about 40 ft., divided into a solid masonry base and three storeys connected by interior stairways.

Thus, if x= horned and y = sheep, then the successive acts of election represented by x and y, if performed on unity, give the whole of the class horned sheep. Boole showed that elective symbols of this kind obey the same primary laws of combination as algebraical symbols, whence it followed that they could be added, subtracted, multiplied and even divided, almost exactly in the same manner as numbers.

Lothaire had no heir, and in 870 by the treaty of Meerssen his territory was divided between the kings of East and West Francia.

Bruno, who kept for himself the title of archduke, divided the territory into the two duchies of Upper and Lower Lorraine.