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divide

When you divide a thing you separate it into two or more other things. The children divide their books so they all have at least one. When you divide one number into another, you are computing into how many equal parts one number can be separated from the other. 2 divides into 6 exactly 3 times. Six divided by two is three. When a thing divides, it changes from one to more than one. The river divided into two.

divide

A divide is a place where two or more things are separated. There is a divide between the those who have money and those who are poor.

divide

(= separate, carve up) separate into parts or portions divide the cake into three equal parts The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I perform a division Can you divide 49 by seven? act as a barrier between; stand between The mountain range divides the two countries (= separate) come apart The two pieces that we had glued separated (= separate) make a division or separation (= separate, part) force, take, or pull apart He separated the fighting children Moses parted the Red Sea a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) (= watershed) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

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divide · verb

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Simple sentences

Divide this in half.
Let us search for what connects us, not divide.
The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
Divide the cake among you three.
Oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.
Divide it among the three.
Take the apple and divide it into halves.
Divide its length and breadth by ten.
Divide the candies among you.
Divide this line into twenty equal parts.
Let's divide this money between you and me.
Divide this cake among you three.
Divide these apples between you three.
Divide this line segment into twenty equal parts.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Let's divide the check between us.
Divide the pizza in three.
Please divide the pizza into three parts.
Divide and conquer.
Divide this among yourselves.

Movie subtitles

The rest of you divide yourselves up among the three roads and hide somewhere along the way.
They work together to ensure that they win the bulk of the prize money and then divide it evenly.
After her marriage to Elias Renato, Ysabel also serves humanity, and their congregation has grown so much that man and wife must divide the blessed work between them.
They take away your land and divide it.
To divide a human being in two?
My friend, when a man is drunk with love. he can't divide his concentration with wine, you know.
When you come back in the spring, we'll divide what I've found.
More to come later. You divide your share any which way you see fair.
Divide it amongst ourselves?
And not an arrow wound to divide among them, I suppose.
When will you divide the property?
Divide everything today!
Looks like I better divide up.
Give him a drop of sense, Lord, about how to divide with his sons.
You need to divide the numerator by three.
Let nothing divide us!
And we divide the harvest fifty-fifty.
How shall we divide the charges?
Remember if you lose, it will divide us.
If you win, that will divide us too.
I'll win, and nothing will divide us.
Beautiful emblem of the great divide.
The rails divide, the train hurtles through the air, the diplomat will make no report in London.
We'll divide up the towns in the state. And you'll work the towns in pairs.
Now, let's see, we got to divide this up someway.
The rest you divide to suit yourselves.
Divide the men in two shifts, Mac. double pay for overtime!
No, I don't wanna eat alone. Let's divide it.
I'm gonna divide it.
Divide it up.
So. it would be fair to divide this money in half.
Deduct for family, divide. I, I never could divide.
But we can divide it.
Come here, let's divide this up.

News and current affairs

HONG KONG - A recent trip to Berlin brought back memories of an earlier visit in the summer of 1967, when I was a poor student who marveled at the Wall that would divide and devastate an entire society for another two decades.
The agreement on climate change reached at Heiligendamm by the G8 leaders merely sets the stage for the real debate to come: how will we divide up the diminishing capacity of the atmosphere to absorb our greenhouse gases?
Divide that total by the world's population, thus calculating what each person's share of the total is.
Here is where Poland can help bridge the Atlantic divide and forge a European consensus.
Sometimes the same company operates on both sides of the divide.
Of course, ancient and difficult issues divide Armenia and Turkey.
Such a possibility seems even more far-fetched as long as the Iranian nuclear crisis remains unresolved and the Syrian crisis continues to widen the region's Shia-Sunni divide (reflected in increased tension between Turkey and Iran).
Indeed, what will now shape the future of the region is not democracy, but the violent divide between Shiites and Sunnis that the Iraq war precipitated.
It is time to seek out best practices that bridge this putative divide, and scale them up.
These women have maintained relationships with one another across the partisan divide, while those among their male colleagues have steadily deteriorated, giving way to competitive grandstanding and vituperation.
Anti-immigrant sentiment cuts across the old left-right divide.
Today's reality, however, is that great powers can no longer divide and conquer other regions, even if they try.
But if a shift across America's racial divide is not truly revolutionary, then what is?
A lot of patience will be needed but now at least the political will to confront Israel's domestic divide, and its long divide with the Palestinians, is there.
The end of the East-West ideological divide and the end of absolute faith in markets are historical turning points.
In Europe, the Kremlin has been able to pursue a successful divide-and-rule strategy, particularly in view of Hungary's decision to suspend gas flows to Ukraine.
Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.
But, behind all the smiles and banquet toasts, serious issues and perception gaps continue to divide the world's two great powers.
To compare median household incomes over time, the authorities divide these annual dollar values by the consumer price index to create annual real median household incomes.
An Asian geopolitical divide centered on political values would, of course, carry significant implications.
Unfortunately, however, the leaders of China, South Korea, and Japan have not yet made any major breakthrough on the most sensitive security issues that divide them.
My first glimpse of this disciplinary divide came many years ago while teaching a course on mathematical methods in biology.

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