vi. 分开, 分配, 分裂

vt. 分, 分开, 分裂, 除

n. 分配, 分水岭

[计] 除

[医] 分成等分, 均分

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.

Divide the living child in two. --1 Kings iii.
25.

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.

Let it divide the waters from the waters. --Gen. i.
6.

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.

True justice unto people to divide. --Spenser.

Ye shall divide the land by lot. --Num. xxxiii.
54.

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

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom
can not stand. --Mark iii.
24.

Every family became now divided within itself.
--Prescott.

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.

6. (Math.) To subject to arithmetical division.

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

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

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.


Divide \Di*vide"\, v. i.
1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
--Milton.

The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups.
--J. Peile.

2. To cause separation; to disunite.

A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between
islands, divide less than the matted forest.
--Bancroft.

3. To break friendship; to fall out. --Shak.

4. To have a share; to partake. --Shak.

5. To vote, as in the British Parliament, 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.

The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their
equals. --Gibbon.


Divide \Di*vide"\, n.
A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two
streams; also called {watershed} and {water parting}. A
divide on either side of which the waters drain into two
different oceans is called a {continental divide}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Watershed \Wa"ter*shed`\, n. [Cf. G. wasserscheide; wasser water
+ scheide a place where two things separate, fr. scheiden to
separate.]
1. The whole region or extent of country which contributes to
the supply of a river or lake.

2. The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes
with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into
them; the natural boundary of a basin; -- called also
{divide} and {water parting}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

3. a point in time marking an important transition between
two situations, or phases of an activity; a turning point.
[PJC]