dividing

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Divide \Di*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing.] [L. dividere, divisum; di- = dis- + root signifying to part; cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. Cf. Device, Devise.]

1.To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. [1913 Webster]

Divide the living child in two.— 1 Kings iii. 25.[1913 Webster]

2.To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns. [1913 Webster]

Let it divide the waters from the waters.— Gen. i. 6.[1913 Webster]

3.To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share. [1913 Webster]

True justice unto people to divide.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]

Ye shall divide the land by lot.— Num. xxxiii. 54.[1913 Webster]

4.To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. [1913 Webster]

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom can not stand.— Mark iii. 24.[1913 Webster]

Every family became now divided within itself.— Prescott.[1913 Webster]

5.To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question. [1913 Webster]

6.(Math.) To subject to arithmetical division. [1913 Webster]

7.(Logic) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term. [1913 Webster]

8.(Mech.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant. [1913 Webster]

9.(Music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Syn: To sever; dissever; sunder; cleave; disjoin; disunite; detach; disconnect; part; distribute; share. [1913 Webster]

Dividing \Di*vid"ing\, a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. [1913 Webster]

Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels.

Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker. [1913 Webster]