Antonyms for divide


Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-vahyd
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvaɪd


Definition of divide

Origin :
  • early 14c., from Latin dividere "to force apart, cleave, distribute," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + -videre "to separate," from PIE root *weidh- "to separate" (see widow; also see with).
  • Mathematical sense is from early 15c. Divide and rule (c.1600) translates Latin divide et impera, a maxim of Machiavelli. Related: Divided; dividing.
  • verb separate, disconnect
  • verb distribute
  • verb put in order; classify
  • verb disagree, alienate
Example sentences :
  • Well, you divide five thousand by ten, and you've got only five hundred left.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Now to understand them words perfect you have got to divide the tex.
  • Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 5. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
  • Together we can divide it; otherwise neither of us will get any of it.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Divide the breast into pieces according to the position of the bones.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Divide them in pieces and split them, or cut them into slices.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Cut it down the middle, and then across, so as to divide it into four cakes.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Then divide the mixture by putting it into two separate sauce-pans.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • One day he climbed over the Divide into the Warhouse Valley.
  • Extract from : « The Biography of a Grizzly » by Ernest Seton-Thompson
  • There were life and motion, and a world astir, to divide the attention of Day.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • Well, then, the scale of good wifeship I divide into ten parts.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

Synonyms for divide

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