0 present participle of divide
1 to (cause to) separate into parts or groups:
At the end of the lecture, I'd like all the students to divide into small discussion groups.
After the Second World War Germany was divided into two separate countries.
I think we should divide (up) the costs equally among/between us.
There's a narrow alley that divides our house from the one next door.
This path marks the dividing line between my land and my neighbour's.
She divides her time between her apartment in New York and her house in the Berkshires.
2 to cause a group of people to disagree about something:
The party is divided on/over the issue of capital punishment.
3 to calculate the number of times that one number fits (exactly) into another:
Texas is divided into 254 counties.
The work has been divided into smaller, more manageable sections.
Human prehistory is divided into three successive periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
The money was divided equally between several worthy causes.
Numerous courtyards as well as major and minor dividing walls are again clear throughout this palace.
Except when dividing, no extracellular connections between the bacteria were observed.
The subtlety of the pressure that the government exerted through the oath was capable of dividing individuals even within themselves.
