divide

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vi. 分开, 分配, 分裂 vt. 分, 分开, 分裂, 除 n. 分配, 分水岭 [计] 除

发音

US
UK /dɪˈvaɪd/

词形变化

divides 复数 divides divided dividedst divides 三单 divideth dividing dividing 现在分词 divided 过去式 divided 过去分词 dividest dividedst 过去式 divideth 三单 divided 复数

别名

devide div

教材释义与例句

名词

[地理] 分水岭,分水线

a line of high ground between two river systems

动词

划分;除;分开;使产生分歧

if something divides, or if you divide it, it separates into two or more parts

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A thing that divides.

    Stay on your side of the divide, please.

  2. 2.

    An act of dividing.

    The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.

  3. 3.

    A distancing between two people or things.

    There is a great divide between us.

  4. 4.

    A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

    If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.

    The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.

  5. 5.

    The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

v. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

    及物

    a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns

  2. 2.

    To share (something) by dividing it.

    及物

    How shall we divide this pie?

  3. 3.

    To cause (a group of people) to disagree.

    及物

    Words divide us, Wiktionary unites us.

  4. 4.

    To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).

    及物

    If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.

  5. 5.

    To be a divisor of.

    及物

    3 divides 6.

  6. 6.

    To separate into two or more parts.

    分裂

    不及物
  7. 7.

    Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

    不及物 生物
  8. 8.

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

  9. 9.

    To break friendship; to fall out.

    废旧
  10. 10.

    To have a share; to partake.

    废旧
  11. 11.

    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.

  12. 12.

    To mark divisions on; to graduate.

    to divide a sextant

  13. 13.

    To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

    音乐

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Italic *wiðō Latin *vidō Latin dīvidōder. Middle English dividen English divide PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan.

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