<B>divide, </B>verb, <B>-vided,</B> <B>-viding,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to separate into parts. <BR> <I>Ex. A brook divides the field.</I> (SYN) sever, split. <DD><B> 2a. </B>to separate into equal parts. <BR> <I>Ex. When you divide 8 by 2, you get 4.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to be a divisor of without a remainder. <BR> <I>Ex. 13 divides 65.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to give some of to each; share; apportion. <BR> <I>Ex. We divided the candy. (Figurative.) He divided his life between the country and the city.</I> (SYN) dispense. <DD><B> 4. </B>to cause to disagree; cause to differ in feeling, opinion, or interest. <BR> <I>Ex. Jealousy divided us.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to separate (a legislature or other voting group) into two groups in voting. <DD><B> 6. </B>to mark off in parts; graduate (a scale, instrument, or other measuring device). <DD><B> 7. </B>to distinguish by kinds; sort out; classify. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to separate into parts; part. <BR> <I>Ex. The road divides and forms two roads.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to do arithmetical or algebraic division. <BR> <I>Ex. He adds well, but has trouble dividing.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to share; split. <BR> <I>Ex. The profits are counted; let's divide.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to disagree; differ in feeling, opinion, or interest. <BR> <I>Ex. The school divided on the choice of a motto.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to vote by separating into two groups. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a ridge of land so situated that the streams on one side flow in the opposite direction to the streams on the other side; ridge between two regions drained by different river systems; watershed. <BR> <I>Ex. The Rocky Mountains form part of the Continental Divide. The minor spurs ... of the upland serve merely as divides between small tributaries (Finch and Trewartha).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of dividing; division. </DL>
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<B>Divide, </B>noun. <B>=Great Divide.</B></DL>
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<B>divided, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>separated. <DD><B> 2. </B>disagreeing in feeling, opinion, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Divided and tumultuous assemblies (Macaulay). A divided court, and a discontented people (Edward Gibbon).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having a partition or dividing strip between opposite lanes. <BR> <I>Ex. a divided expressway.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Botany.) cut to the base so as to form distinct portions. <BR> <I>Ex. a divided leaf.</I> adv. <B>dividedly.</B> noun <B>dividedness.</B> </DL>
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<B>divided highway,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a highway with a median strip between lanes of traffic going in opposite directions. <BR> <I>Ex. Divided highways engineered for high-speed driving are completed ... from Augusta, Me., to the Illinois line (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>divided skirt,</B> <B>=culottes.</B></DL>
<A NAME="divideetimpera">
<B>divide et impera,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) divide and rule. </DL>
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<B>dividend, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a number or quantity to be divided by another. <BR> <I>Ex. In 8 / 2, 8 is the dividend.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>money earned as profit by a company and divided among the owners or stockholders of the company. <DD><B> 3. </B>a share of such money. <DD><B> 4. </B>a refund of part of the premiums paid to an insurance company, given to a person holding a participating insurance policy out of the company's surplus earnings. <BR> <I>Ex. With our policy-holder dividends your total savings can be really surprising (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Law.) a sum of money divided among the creditors of a bankrupt estate. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Especially British.) a bonus. <BR> <I>Ex. Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows (Siegfried Sassoon).</I> </DL>
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<B>dividend warrant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an order to pay a dividend to a stockholder. </DL>
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<B>divider, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that divides. <BR> <I>Ex. There is a concrete divider in the center of the parkway.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a partition, such as a screen or bookcase, for dividing a room into parts or areas. <DD><B> 3. </B>a sheet of cardboard or the like for separating a notebook or a file of cards into parts. <BR> <I>Ex. a looseleaf divider, a card file separated by alphabetical dividers.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>dividers,</B> </I>a compass for dividing lines, measuring distances, charting a course, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. She was like a child with a pair of dividers (Graham Greene).</I> </DL>
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<B>dividing line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a real or imaginary line regarded as separating two positions, points of view, ideas, periods of time, or conditions. <BR> <I>Ex. A sea-barrier forms a far more fundamental dividing line than any land frontier (J. F. Pain). The dividing line between sanity and insanity is often hard to establish.</I> </DL>
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<B>divi-divi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a tropical American shrub or small tree of the pea family, whose astringent pods contain gallic and tannic acids that are used in tanning and dyeing. <DD><B> b. </B>its pods. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a related tree whose pods are used for making ink. <DD><B> b. </B>its pods. </DL>
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<B>dividual, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>divisible; dividable. <DD><B> 2. </B>separate; distinct. <DD><B> 3. </B>distributed; shared. <BR> <I>Ex. The obligation is dividual (Henry T. Colebrook).</I> adv. <B>dividually.</B> </DL>
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<B>divinable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be divined. </DL>
<B>divination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of foreseeing the future or foretelling the unknown by inspiration, by magic, or by signs and omens. <BR> <I>Ex. It is quite legitimate for a scientist to investigate whether such phenomena as, for example, mind reading or divination of the future (clairvoyance) do exist (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> (SYN) augury, prophecy. <DD><B> 2. </B>a skillful guess or prediction. </DL>
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<B>divinator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who practices divination. </DL>
<A NAME="divinatory">
<B>divinatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with divination or a diviner. </DL>
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<B>divine, </B>adjective, noun, verb, <B>-vined,</B> <B>-vining.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of God or a god. <BR> <I>Ex. The Bible describes the creation of the world as a divine act. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you (Emerson). To err is human, to forgive divine (Alexander Pope).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>given by or coming from God. <BR> <I>Ex. The king believed that his power to rule was a divine right. Do you claim divine guidance for your system? (Manchester Guardian).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to or for God; sacred; holy. <BR> <I>Ex. divine service, divine worship.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>like God or a god; heavenly. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) excellent or delightful; unusually good or great. <BR> <I>Ex. "What a divine hat!" she cried.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>having to do with divinity or theology. <DD><I>noun </I> a clergyman who knows much about theology; minister; priest. <BR> <I>Ex. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to foresee or foretell by inspiration, by magic, or by signs and omens; predict. <DD><B> 2. </B>to find out without actually knowing; guess correctly. <BR> <I>Ex. She divined what had happened to the missing cake from the boys' guilty looks.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to interpret; explain. <BR> <I>Ex. For reasons that are difficult to divine (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to portend. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to practice divination; prophesy. noun <B>divineness.</B> </DL>
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<B>Divine Comedy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a famous Italian poem, written by Dante (1300-1318), having three parts, <I>Inferno, Purgatorio,</I> and <I>Paradiso.</I> </DL>
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<B>divine healing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the healing of physical ills by God's direct intervention. <BR> <I>Ex. Pentecostals and most revivalists believe in divine healing (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the practice of seeking this healing through prayers and other expressions of faith; faith cure. </DL>
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<B>Divine Liturgy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Communion service, especially in the Greek Orthodox Church. </DL>
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<B>divinely, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in a divine or godlike manner. <DD><B> 2. </B>by the agency or influence of God. <BR> <I>Ex. An angel is a divinely appointed messenger.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) supremely well. <BR> <I>Ex. She dances divinely.</I> </DL>
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<B>divine office,</B> or <B>Divine Office,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the stated service of daily prayer; canonical hours. </DL>
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<B>diviner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who foresees the future or perceives the unknown, or professes to do these things; prophet. (SYN) soothsayer, magician, sorcerer. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who makes a skillful guess or prediction. <BR> <I>Ex. Most of Pennsylvania's unlicensed political diviners made their decisions weeks ago (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>divineress, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman diviner. </DL>
<A NAME="divineright">
<B>divine right,</B> <B>=divine right of kings.</B> <I>Ex. The first blow at divine right was the execution of the English king, Charles I, in 1649 (J. S. Schapiro).</I> </DL>
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<B>divine right of kings,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the right to rule, thought to have been given to kings by God, not by the consent of the governed. </DL>
<A NAME="diving">
<B>diving, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that dives. <BR> <I>Ex. diving petrels.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>used in diving. <BR> <I>Ex. a diving helmet.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of one that dives. <DD><B> 2. </B>a water sport performed by plunging into water after performing various acrobatic falls. </DL>
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<B>diving beetle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of large predacious aquatic beetles that swim freely in the water, and may often be seen diving rapidly to the bottom. </DL>
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<B>diving bell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, hollow container filled with air and open at the bottom. People can work in it under water. </DL>
