divide
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(verb) perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" |
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Synonyms: fraction |
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Related Words: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, halve, quarter, reckon |
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Antonyms: multiply |
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(verb) separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" |
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Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
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Related Words: balkanize, break, canton, change integrity, format, initialize, lot, paragraph, parcel, sliver, splinter, triangulate, unitize |
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Antonyms: unite |
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(verb) come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
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Synonyms: part, separate |
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Related Words: break away, break off, break up, calve, change, chip, chip off, come away, come off, detach, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, gerrymander, partition, partition off, polarize, reduce, section, segment, take apart |
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(verb) make a division or separation |
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Synonyms: separate |
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Related Words: break, break up, close off, detach, dispel, disperse, dissipate, partition, rope off, scatter, shut off, subdivide, zone |
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(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between: "The mountain range divides the two countries" |
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Synonyms: separate |
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(verb) force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
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Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
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Related Words: break, break up, bust, compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut, cut up, disarticulate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, displace, gin, isolate, keep apart, move, polarize, rupture, sequester, sequestrate, set apart, sever, snap, tear |
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(noun) a line that divides two adjacent river systems |
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Synonyms: water parting, watershed |
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Related Words: continental divide, line |
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