divide

About 13.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns

2. verb To separate into two or more parts.
3. verb To share (something) by dividing it.

   How shall we divide this pie?

4. verb To cause (a group of people) to disagree.

   Words divide us; Wiktionary unites us.

5. verb To calculate the quotient number by which another one (the divisor) is multiplied to produce a second number (the dividend).

   If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.

6. verb To be a divisor of.

   3 divides 6.

7. verb To reproduce by either mitosis or meiosis.
8. verb To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

Similar words

fraction part split separate disunite dissever split up carve up watershed water parting

Often followed by

the and it by into between them a up

Word family

dividable divided divides dividing