Usually means: Separate into parts or portions.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. divide: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. divide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. divide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. divide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. divide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Divide, divide: Wordnik
  7. divide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. divide: Wiktionary
  9. divide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. divide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. divide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. divide: Dictionary.com
  13. divide (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. divide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Divide (album), Divide (drainage), Divide (ed sheeran), Divide, The Divide (TV series), The Divide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Divide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. divide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. divide: Rhymezone
  19. divide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. divide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. divide: Free Dictionary
  22. divide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. divide: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. divide: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. The Divide (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  26. Divide: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. divide: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. divide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. divide: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. divide: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Divide: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. divide: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dividable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
verb:  (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
verb:  (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).
verb:  (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
verb:  (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
verb:  (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
verb:  To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
verb:  (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
verb:  (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
verb:  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.
verb:  To mark divisions on; to graduate.
verb:  (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
noun:  A thing that divides.
noun:  An act of dividing.
noun:  A distancing between two people or things.
noun:  (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
noun:  (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

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