When you divide something, you separate it into different parts. A pizza maker may divide a ball of dough into two parts to make two pies, or you might even divide a stick of gum in half to share it with a friend.
That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Adjective S.
serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line between two states"
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Divide
a.
That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Dividing
That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Usage Examples
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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Other Usage ExamplesPresent, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
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