divide

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

divides

V_ing/Gerund

dividing

V_ed/pp

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1.
(transitive)To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
Đồng nghĩa: cut up, disunite, partition, split, split up
2.
(transitive)To share (something) by dividing it.
How shall we divide this pie?
Đồng nghĩa: divvy up, divide up, share, share out, apportion
3.
(transitive)To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
Words divide us, Wiktionary unites us.
4.
(transitive)(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).
If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
5.
(transitive)(transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
3 divides 6.
6.
(intransitive)To separate into two or more parts.
Đồng nghĩa: separate, shear, split, split up
7.
(intransitive)(intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
8.
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
9.
(obsolete)To break friendship; to fall out.
10.
(obsolete)To have a share; to partake.
11.
To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
12.
To mark divisions on; to graduate.
to divide a sextant

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

divides

1.
A thing that divides.
Stay on your side of the divide, please.
2.
An act of dividing.
The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
3.
A distancing between two people or things.
There is a great divide between us.
4.
(geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.
5.
(hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

cut updisunite partitionsplitsplit updivvy updivide upshareshare outapportion separate shear

Trái nghĩa

combine merge unify unite multiply

Cùng gốc / liên quan

divisiondividend divisoract of dividing divisiondivisivefractionfraction slash⁄fraction barvinculum ratio∶quotient remainderdivision signobelus÷division slash∕long division symbol

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Nguồn gốc từ

dwóh₁ ine-pro From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (to divide). Displaced native tōdǣlan related to deal which formerly meant a “portion” or “part” of something.