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How to pronounce divide in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fraction
Type of work out, reckon, figure, cypher, compute, cipher, calculate
Has types quarter, halve
Derivation divisible, division


Can you divide 49 by seven?.
Type Words
Synonyms separate
Derivation divider


The mountain range divides the two countries.
Type Words
Synonyms carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up
Type of change integrity
Has types unitise, unitize, paragraph, sliver, splinter, canton, subdivide, parcel, balkanize, balkanise, lot, sectionalise, sectionalize, initialize, initialise, format, triangulate
Derivation divider, division, divisible


divide the cake into three equal parts.
Type Words
Synonyms disunite, part, separate
Type of move, displace
Has types keep apart, disconnect, disjoin, rupture, disjoint, break up, isolate, bust, tear, break, snap, sever, polarize, sequester, joint, compartmentalise, compartmentalize, set apart, cut up, cut, sequestrate, polarise, gin, disarticulate
Type Words
Synonyms water parting, watershed
Type of line
Has types continental divide
Type Words
Synonyms separate
Has types zone, break, break up, close off, detach, dispel, disperse, dissipate, partition, rail, rail off, scatter, shut off
Derivation division, divisible
Type Words
Synonyms part, separate
Type of change
Has types reduce, partition, partition off, polarise, polarize, break away, break off, break up, take apart, calve, subdivide, chip, chip off, come away, come off, detach, discerp, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, gerrymander, segregate, segment, section
Derivation divisible
Type Words
Type of disagreement, dissension, dissonance

Examples of divide

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The students are also learning how to multiply and divide large numbers in math.
From the desmoinesregister.com
The findings show a generational divide working against the Democrats this fall.
From the washingtonpost.com
The central sticking point is how to divide power between Mugabe and Tsvangirai.
From the time.com
On every side of the divide, the wounds are raw and will take lifetimes to heal.
From the mirror.co.uk
Evenly divide mixture among the cups and add 2 tablespoons of basil to each cup.
From the kansas.com
Divide pappardelle and cream sauce between two plates, and top with sliced lamb.
From the courier-journal.com
Their political divide was the country's divide for most of the past generation.
From the nznewsuk.co.uk
The procedure is to divide the thickened muscles at the lower end of the gullet.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Amazingly, there are kids that get to high school and cannot multiply or divide.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • A serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
  • Separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
  • Watershed: a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
  • Perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
  • Separate: 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"
  • The Divide is an upcoming post-apocalyptic scenario science-fiction thriller film directed by Xavier Gens and written by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean. It stars Michael Biehn, Lauren German, Milo Ventimiglia.
  • The Divide is a 1980 alternate history novel by William Overgard.
  • Division is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the others being addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The division of two natural numbers is the process of calculating the number of times one number is contained within one another...