dividere — meaning in English

English meaning

• divide verb To split something into two or more parts.
• separate verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.
• splinter noun A thin, sharp fragment broken off from a larger piece, often wood.
• split verb To divide something into parts, often along a line.

Senses

dividere is used for these senses in English:

• break up (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
• divide (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• divide (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• divide (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
• divide (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• separate (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• splinter (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.

divide — full definition

1. verb To split something into two or more parts.
2. verb In mathematics, to work out how many times one number goes into another.
3. verb To cause disagreement or split opinion among a group of people.
4. noun A significant difference or gap separating two groups or things.

separate — full definition

1. verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.
2. adj Not connected to or joined with something else; distinct.

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