divide

divide
    n 1: a serious disagreement between two groups of people
         (typically producing tension or hostility)
    2: a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
       [syn: {watershed}, {water parting}, {divide}]
    v 1: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into
         three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman
         Empire after World War I" [syn: {divide}, {split}, {split
         up}, {separate}, {dissever}, {carve up}] [ant: {unify},
         {unite}]
    2: perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" [syn:
       {divide}, {fraction}] [ant: {multiply}]
    3: act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range
       divides the two countries" [syn: {separate}, {divide}]
    4: come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
       [syn: {separate}, {divide}, {part}]
    5: make a division or separation [syn: {separate}, {divide}]
    6: force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting
       children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" [syn: {separate},
       {disunite}, {divide}, {part}]
    

Watershed \Wa"ter*shed`\, n. [Cf. G. wasserscheide; wasser water
   + scheide a place where two things separate, fr. scheiden to
   separate.]
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   1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to
      the supply of a river or lake.
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   2. The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes
      with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into
      them; the natural boundary of a basin; -- called also
      {divide} and {water parting}.
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   3. a point in time marking an important transition between
      two situations, or phases of an activity; a turning point.
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Divide \Di*vide"\, v. i.
   1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
      --Milton.
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            The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups.
                                                  --J. Peile.
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   2. To cause separation; to disunite.
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            A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between
            islands, divide less than the matted forest.
                                                  --Bancroft.
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   3. To break friendship; to fall out. --Shak.
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   4. To have a share; to partake. --Shak.
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   5. 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.
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            The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their
            equals.                               --Gibbon.
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Divide \Di*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Divided}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Dividing}.] [L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root
   signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to
   L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. {Device}, {Devise}.]
   1. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts
      or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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            Divide the living child in two.       --1 Kings iii.
                                                  25.
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   2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or
      by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two
      houses; a stream divides the towns.
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            Let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i.
                                                  6.
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   3. To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as
      profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to
      distribute; to mete out; to share.
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            True justice unto people to divide.   --Spenser.
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            Ye shall divide the land by lot.      --Num. xxxiii.
                                                  54.
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   4. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or
      hostile; to set at variance.
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            If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom
            can not stand.                        --Mark iii.
                                                  24.
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            Every family became now divided within itself.
                                                  --Prescott.
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   5. 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.
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   6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.
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   7. (Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or
      generic term.
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   8. (Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a
      sextant.
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   9. (Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with
      variations. [Obs.] --Spenser.

   Syn: To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite;
        detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share.
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Divide \Di*vide"\, n.
   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}.
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Divide, CO
  Zip code(s): 80814
Divide, MT
  Zip code(s): 59727
    

Divide -- U.S. County in North Dakota
   Population (2000):    2283
   Housing Units (2000): 1469
   Land area (2000):     1259.529393 sq. miles (3262.166014 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    34.647017 sq. miles (89.735358 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1294.176410 sq. miles (3351.901372 sq. km)
   Located within:       North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
   Location:             48.828242 N, 103.454207 W
   Headwords:
    Divide
    Divide, ND
    Divide County
    Divide County, ND
    

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      split in two, split the difference, split up, spread, spread out,
      spring open, stand apart, stand aside, step, step aside,
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      sunder, surround, survey, swing open, tabulate, take a reading,
      take account of, take exception, take issue, tally, tap, tear,
      tear open, thrash, thresh, throw off, throw open, throw out,
      transect, triangulate, type, uncouple, unyoke, valuate, value,
      vary, vote, wall off, water parting, watershed, weigh, winnow,
      withdraw, withhold assent, work out, zone