English-Thai Dictionary

divide

VI หาร (ทางค ณิตศาสตร์  subdivide separate integrate unite han

 

divide

VI แบ่ง  แยก  แบ่งแยก  แยก เป็น สอง ส่วน  part split detach join unite bang

 

divide

VT หาร (ทางค ณิตศาสตร์  subdivide separate integrate unite han

 

divide

VT แบ่ง  แยก  แบ่งแยก  แยก เป็น สอง ส่วน  part split detach join unite bang

 

divide against

PHRV แตกแยก กับ  ทะเลาะ กันเอง  teak-yeak-kab

 

divide among

PHRV แบ่งปัน ท่ามกลาง  baeng-pan-tam-klang

 

divide between

PHRV แบ่ง กัน ระหว่าง  baeng-kan-ra-wang

 

divide by

PHRV หาร ด้วย  han-duai

 

divide from

PHRV แยก ออกจาก  separate from yaek-ook-jak

 

divide in

PHRV แบ่ง ให้ เป็น ชิ้น หรือ เป็น ส่วน  cut in cut into divide into separate into baeng-hai-pen-chin-rue-pen-suan

 

divide into

PHRV แบ่ง เป็น ชิ้น หรือ เป็น ส่วน  cut into divide in separate into baeng-pen-chin-rue-pen-suan

 

divide off

PHRV กั้น ด้วย  แยก ออก ด้วย  fence off rail off separate off wall off kan-duai

 

divide on

PHRV มี ความเห็น ต่างกัน ใน เรื่อง  me-kwam-hen-tang-kan-nai-rueang

 

divide out

PHRV แบ่ง ออก  แบ่ง  bang-ook

 

divide with

PHRV แบ่ง กัน (เท่าๆ กัน  share with bang-kan

 

divided

A ที่ แบ่งแยก เป็น ส่วน 

 

dividend

N เงินปันผล  ส่วนแบ่ง จาก ผลกำไร  ผลกำไร  profit interest bonus ngen-pan-pon

 

divident

N เงินปันผล 

 

divider

N เครื่อง แบ่งแยก 

 

dividivi

N ต้น ไม้พุ่ม ขนาดเล็ก 

 

dividual

A ที่ แบ่งแยก ได้ 

 

divination

N การ ทำนาย โชคชะตา  การ ทำนาย ดวงชะตา  kan-tam-nai-chok

 

divine

ADJ ศักดิ์สิทธิ์  ลึกลับ  sacred blessed godly holy defiled desecrated sak-sid

 

divine

ADJ เกี่ยวกับ สวรรค์  เกี่ยวกับ พระเจ้า  เกี่ยวกับ วิญญา ณ  godly holy godlike almighty mortal kiao-kab-sa-wan

 

divine

ADJ เยี่ยมยอด  เป็นเลิศ  ดีเยี่ยม  ยอดเยี่ยม  supreme superb sublime yiam-yod

 

divine

N ผู้รับใช้ ศาสนา  สาวก  ผู้ เลื่อมใส  นักบวช  priest clergyman theologian phu-rub-chai-sad-sa-na

 

divine

N พระผู้เป็นเจ้า  พระเจ้า  pra-phu-pen-jao

 

divine

VT คาดการณ์  ทำนาย  พยากรณ์  predict prophesy conjecture kad-kan

 

divinely

ADV อย่าง ยอดเยี่ยม  อย่างดี เลิศ  อย่าง ประเสริฐ  yang-yod-yiam

 

divinely

ADV อย่าง เป็น พระเจ้า  อย่าง เป็น ผู้วิเศษ  yang-pen-pra-jao

 

diviner

N ผู้รู้แจ้ง  ผู้ หยั่งรู้  หมอดู  phu-ru-jang

 

diving

ADJ เกี่ยวกับ การ ดำน้ำ  kiao-kab-kan-dan-nam

 

diving

N การ ดำน้ำ  kan-dam-nam

 

divinity

N ความ เป็น พระเจ้า  พระเจ้า  kwam-pen-pare-jao

 

divinization

N การ ทำให้ ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ 

 

divinize

VT ทำให้ ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ 

 

divisibility

N ความสามารถ ที่จะ หาร ลงตัว  ความสามารถ ใน การ แบ่งแยก  kwam-sa-mad-ti-ja-han-long-tua

 

divisible

ADJ ซึ่ง แบ่งแยก ได้ อีก  ซึ่ง หาร ลงตัว  detachable fissible segregable indivisible unified sueng-baeng-yaek-dai-ik

 

division

N กองทหาร  หน่วย ทหาร  corps unit kong-ta-han

 

division

N การ หาร  separation kan-han

 

division

N การ แบ่ง  การ แบ่งสันปันส่วน  การ จัดสรร  separation breakup dividing union fusion kan-bang

 

division

N ความแตกต่าง  การแตกแยก  ความ ไม่ลงรอยกัน  separation kwam-teak-tak

 

division

N แผนก  กอง  group branch subdivision section pa-neak

 

divisional

ADJ ซึ่ง แบ่งแยก  ที่ หาร ออก  sueng-bang-yeak

 

divisionary

A ที่ แบ่งแยก 

 

divisive

A เกี่ยวกับ การ แบ่งแยก 

 

divisor

N ตัวหาร  เลข หาร  coefficient dividend aliquot tua-han

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIVIDABLE

a.[See Divide. ] 1. That may be divided.
2. Separate; parted. [Not used nor proper. ]

 

DIVIDE

v.t.[L., to part. See the latter words. ] 1. To part or separate an entire thing; to part a thing into two or more pieces.
Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings 3:25.
2. To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition or by an imaginary line or limit. A wall divides two houses. The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.
Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters. Genesis 1:6.
3. To make partition of, among a number.
Ye shall divide the land by lot. Numbers 33:54.
4. To open; to cleave.
Thou dist divide the sea. Nehemiah 9:11.
5. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant.
There shall be five in one house divided, three against two-- Luke 12:52.
6. To distribute; to separate and bestow in parts or shares.
And he divided to them his living. Luke 15:12.
7. To make dividends; to apportion the interest or profits of stock among proprietors; as, the bank divides six per cent.
8. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.

 

DIVIDE

v.i. 1. To part; to open; to cleave.
2. To break friendship; as, brothers divide.
3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.
The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.

 

DIVIDED

pp. Parted; disunited; distributed.

 

DIVIDEDLY

adv. Separately.

 

DIVIDEND

n. 1. A part or share; particularly, the share of the interest or profit of stock in trade or other employment, which belongs to each proprietor according to his proportion of the stock or capital.
2. In arithmetic, the number to be divided into equal parts.

 

DIVIDER

n. 1. He or that which divides; that which separates into parts.
2. A distributor; one who deals out to each his share.
Who made me a judge or divider over you. Luke 12:14.
3. He or that which disunites.
4. A kind of compasses.

 

DIVIDING

ppr. 1. Parting; separating; distributing; disuniting; apportioning to each his share.
2. a. That indicates separation or difference; as a dividing line.

 

DIVIDING

n.Separation.

 

DIVIDUAL

a.[L.] Divided, shared or participated in common with others. [Little used. ]

 

DIVINATION

n.[L., to foretell. See Divine. ] 1. The act of divining; a foretelling future events, or discovering things secret or obscure, by the aid of superior beings, or by other than human means. The ancient heathen philosophers divided divination into two kinds, natural and artificial. Natural divination was supposed to be effected by a kind of inspiration or divine afflatus; artificial divination was effected by certain rites, experiments or observations, as by sacrifices, cakes, flour, wine, observation of entrails, flight of birds, lots, verses, omens, position of the stars, etc.
2. Conjectural presage; prediction.

 

DIVINATOR

n.One who pretends to divination.

 

DIVINATORY

a.Professing divination.

 

DIVINE

a.[L., a god. ] 1. Pertaining to the true God; as the divine nature; divine perfections.
2. Pertaining to a heathen deity, or to false gods.
3. Partaking of the nature of God.
Half human, half divine.
4. Proceeding from God; as divine judgments.
5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; extraordinary; apparently above what is human. In this application the word admits of comparison; as a divine invention; a divine genius; the divinest mind.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Proverbs 16:1 .
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Not used. ]
7. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; as divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

 

DIVINE

n. 1. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition, personal sanctity, and diligence in the pastoral office.
2. A man skilled in divinity; a theologian; as a great divine.

 

DIVINE

v.t.[L.] 1. To foreknow; to foretell; to presage.
Darst thou divine his downfall?
2. To deify. [Not in use. ]

 

DIVINE

v.i. 1. To use or practice divination.
2. To utter presages or prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah 3:11.
3. To have presages or forebodings.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts--
4. To guess or conjecture.
Could you divine what lovers bear.

 

DIVINELY

adv. 1. In a divine or godlike manner; in a manner resembling deity.
2. By the agency or influence of God; as a prophet divinely inspired; divinely taught.
3. Excellently; in the supreme degree; as divinely fair; divinely brave.

 

DIVINENESS

n. 1. Divinity; participation of the divine nature; as the divineness of the scriptures. [Little used. ]
2. Excellence in the supreme degree.

 

DIVINER

n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by the aid of superior beings, or of supernatural means.
These nations hearkened to diviners. Deuteronomy 18:14.
2. One who guesses; a conjecturer.

 

DIVINERESS

n.A female diviner; a woman professing divination.

 

DIVING

ppr. [See Dive. ] 1. Plunging or sinking into water or other liquid; applied to animals only.
2. Going deep into a subject.

 

DIVING-BELL

n.A hollow vessel in form of a truncated cone or pyramid, with the smaller base close, and the larger one open, in which a person may descend into deep water and remain, till the inclosed air ceases to be respirable.

 

DIVINITY

n.[L.] 1. The state of being divine; Deity; Godhead; the nature or essence of God. Christians ascribe divinity to one Supreme Being only.
2. God; the Deity; the Supreme Being.
Tis the Divinity that stirs within us.
3. A false God; a pretended deity of pagans.
Beastly divinities, and droves of gods.
4. A celestial being, inferior to the Supreme God, but superior to man. Many nations believe in these inferior divinities.
5. Something supernatural.
They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
6. The science of divine things; the science which unfolds the character of God, his laws and moral government, the duties of man, and the way of salvation; theology; as the study of divinity; a system of divinity.

 

DIVISIBILITY

n.[L. See Divide. ] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts or component particles are capable of separation.

 

DIVISIBLE

a.s as z. [L. See Divide. ] Capable of division; that may be separated or disunited; separable. Matter is divisible indefinitely.

 

DIVISIBLENESS

n.Divisibility; capacity of being separated.

 

DIVISION

n.s as z. [L. See Divide. ] 1. The act of dividing or separating into parts, any entire body.
2. The state of being divided.
3. That which divides or separates; that which keeps apart; partition.
4. The part separated from the rest by a partition or line, real or imaginary; as the divisions of a field.
5. A separate body of men; as, communities and divisions of men.
6. A part or distinct portion; as the divisions of a discourse.
7. A part of an army or militia; a body consisting of a certain number of brigades usually two, and commanded by a major general. But the term is often applied to other bodies or portions of an army, as to a brigade, a squadron or a platoon.
8. A part of a fleet, or a select number of ships under a commander, and distinguished by a particular flag or pendant.
9. Disunion; discord; variance; difference.
There was a division among the people. John 7:43.
1 . Space between the notes of music, or the dividing of the tones.
11. Distinction.
I will put a division between my people and thy people. Exodus 8:23.
12. The separation of voters in a legislative house.
13. In arithmetic, the dividing of a number or quantity into any parts assigned; or the rule by which is found how many times one number is contained in another.

 

DIVISIONAL, DIVISIONARY

a.Pertaining to division; noting or making division; as a divisional line.

 

DIVISIONER

n.One who divides. [Not used. ]

 

DIVISIVE

a. 1. Forming division or distribution.
2. Creating division or discord.

 

DIVISOR

n.In arithmetic, the number by which the dividend is divided.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIVIDABLE

Di *vid "a *ble, a. Etym: [From Divide. ]

 

1. Capable of being divided; divisible.

 

2. Divided; separated; parted. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

DIVIDANT

DIVIDANT Di *vid "ant, a.

 

Defn: Different; distinct. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

DIVIDE

Di *vide ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divided; p. pr. & vb. n. Dividing. ]Etym: [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. )

 

Defn: To subject to arithmetical division.

 

7. (Logic )

 

Defn: To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.

 

8. (Mech. )

 

Defn: To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

 

9. (Music )

 

Defn: 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

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

DIVIDE Di *vide ", n.

 

Defn: A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

 

DIVIDED

DIVIDED Di *vid "ed, a.

 

1. Parted; disunited; distributed.

 

2. (Bot. )

 

Defn: Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf.

 

DIVIDEDLY

DIVIDEDLY Di *vid "ed *ly, adv.

 

Defn: Separately; in a divided manner.

 

DIVIDEND

Div "i *dend, n. Etym: [L. dividendum thing to be divided, neut. of the gerundive of dividere: cf. F. dividende. ]

 

1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

 

2. (Math. )

 

Defn: A number or quantity which is to be divided.

 

DIVIDENT

DIVIDENT Div "i *dent, n.

 

Defn: Dividend; share. [Obs. ] Foxe.

 

DIVIDER

DIVIDER Di *vid "er, n.

 

1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

 

2. One who deals out to each his share. Who made me a judge or a divider over you Luke xii. 14.

 

3. One who, or that which, causes division. Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. Milton. Money, the great divider of the world. Swift.

 

4. pl.

 

Defn: An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc. , compasses. See Compasses.

 

Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc. ; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.

 

DIVIDING

DIVIDING Di *vid "ing, a.

 

Defn: That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. 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.

 

DIVIDINGLY

DIVIDINGLY Di *vid "ing *ly, adv.

 

Defn: By division.

 

DIVI-DIVI

Di "vi-di "vi, n. Etym: [Native name. ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: A small tree of tropical America (Cæsalpinia coriaria ), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.

 

DIVIDUAL

Di *vid "u *al, a. Etym: [See Dividuous. ]

 

Defn: Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. [R.] Milton.

 

DIVIDUALLY

DIVIDUALLY Di *vid "u *al *ly, adv.

 

Defn: By dividing. [R.]

 

DIVIDUOUS

Di *vid "u *ous, a. Etym: [L. dividuus divisible, divided, fr. dividere.]

 

Defn: Divided; dividual. [R.] He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

 

DIVINATION

Div `i *na "tion, n. Etym: [L. divinatio, fr. divinare, divinatum, to foresee, foretell, fr. divinus: cf. F. divination. See Divine. ]

 

1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that. .. useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 1 .

 

Note: Among the ancient heathen philosophers natural divination was supposed to be effected by a divine afflatus; artificial divination by certain rites, omens, or appearances, as the flight of birds, entrails of animals, etc.

 

2. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.

 

DIVINATOR

Div "i *na `tor, n. Etym: [L. See Divination. ]

 

Defn: One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [R.] Burton.

 

DIVINATORY

Di *vin "a *to *ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. divinatoire.]

 

Defn: Professing, or relating to, divination. "A natural divinatory instinct. " Cowley.

 

DIVINE

Di *vine ", a. Etym: [Compar. Diviner (; superl. Divinest.] Etym: [F.divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. deus, God. See Deity. ]

 

1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature. " Paley.

 

2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. "Divine protection. " Bacon.

 

3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

 

4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. "The divine Apollo said. " Shak.

 

5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. "The divine Desdemona. " Shak. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 1 . But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray.

 

6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Obs. ] Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him. Milton.

 

7. Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South.

 

Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent.

 

DIVINE

Di *vine ", n. Etym: [L. divinus a soothsayer, LL. , a theologian. See Divine, a.]

 

1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. "Poets were the first divines." Denham.

 

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge.

 

DIVINE

Di *vine ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divined; p. pr. & vb. n. Divining. ]Etym: [L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination. ]

 

1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.

 

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage. Darest thou. .. divine his downfall Shak.

 

3. To render divine; to deify. [Obs. ] Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

 

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise.

 

DIVINE

DIVINE Di *vine ", v. i.

 

1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.

 

2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding. Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak.

 

3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.

 

DIVINELY

DIVINELY Di *vine "ly, adv.

 

1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson.

 

2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart. .. to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.

 

DIVINEMENT

DIVINEMENT Di *vine "ment, n.

 

Defn: Divination. [Obs. ]

 

DIVINENESS

DIVINENESS Di *vine "ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.

 

DIVINER

DIVINER Di *vin "er, n.

 

1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2.

 

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke.

 

DIVINERESS

DIVINERESS Di *vin "er *ess, n.

 

Defn: A woman who divines. Dryden.

 

DIVING

DIVING Div "ing, a.

 

Defn: That dives or is used or diving. Diving beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; - - called also water tiger. -- Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. -- Diving stone, a kind of jasper.

 

DIVINIFY

Di *vin "i *fy, v. t. Etym: [L. divinus divine + -fy. ]

 

Defn: To render divine; to deify. [Obs. ] "Blessed and divinified soul. " Parth. Sacra (1633 ).

 

DIVINING

DIVINING Di *vin "ing, a.

 

Defn: That divines; for divining. Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under ground.

 

DIVININGLY

DIVININGLY Di *vin "ing *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a divining manner.

 

DIVINISTRE

DIVINISTRE Div `i *nis "tre, n.

 

Defn: A diviner. [Obs. ] " I am no divinistre. " Chaucer.

 

DIVINITY

Di *vin "i *ty, n.; pl. Divinities. Etym: [F. divinité, L. divinitas.See Divine, a.]

 

1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

 

2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God. This the divinity that within us. Addison.

 

3. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god. Beastly divinities, and droves of gods. Prior.

 

4. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man. God. .. employing these subservient divinities. Cheyne.

 

5. Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe. They say there is divinity in odd numbers. Shak. There's such divinity doth hedge a king. Shak.

 

6. The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology. Divinity is essentially the first of the professions. Coleridge., casuistry.

 

DIVINITY CALF

DIVINITY CALF Di *vin "i *ty calf `. (Bookbinding )

 

Defn: Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

 

DIVINIZATION

DIVINIZATION Div `i *ni *za "tion, n.

 

Defn: A making divine. M. Arnold.

 

DIVINIZE

DIVINIZE Div "i *nize, v. t.

 

Defn: To invest with a divine character; to deify. [R.] M. Arnold. Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman.

 

DIVISIBILITY

Di *vis `i *bil "i *ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. divisibilité. ]

 

Defn: The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation. Divisibility. .. is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.

 

DIVISIBLE

Di *vis "i *ble, a. Etym: [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf. F.divisible. See Divide. ]

 

Defn: Capable of being divided or separated. Extended substance. .. is divisible into parts. Sir W. Hamilton. Divisible contract (Law ), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. -- Divisible offense (Law ), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction. -- Di *vis "i *ble *ness, n. -- Di *vis "i *bly, adv.

 

DIVISIBLE

DIVISIBLE Di *vis "i *ble, n.

 

Defn: A divisible substance. Glanvill.

 

DIVISION

Di *vi "sion, n. Etym: [F. division, L. divisio, from dividere. See Divide. ]

 

1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation. I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon.

 

2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

 

3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section. Communities and divisions of men. Addison.

 

4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation. There was a division among the people. John vii. 43.

 

5. Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23.

 

6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. The motion passed without a division. Macaulay.

 

7. (Math. )

 

Defn: The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

 

8. (Logic )

 

Defn: The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

 

9. (Mil. ) (a ) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer. (b ) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion. (c ) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

 

1 . (Naut. )

 

Defn: One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

 

11. (Mus. )

 

Defn: A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

 

12. (Rhet.)

 

Defn: The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

 

13. (Biol.)

 

Defn: A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom. Cell division (Biol.), a method of cell increase, in which new cells are formed by the division of the parent cell. In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis ). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells. -- Long division (Math. ), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down. -- Short division (Math. ), the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

 

Syn. -- compartment; section; share; allotment; distribution; separation; partition; disjunction; disconnection; difference; variance; discord; disunion.

 

DIVISIONAL

DIVISIONAL Di *vi "sion *al, a.

 

Defn: That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

 

DIVISIONALLY

DIVISIONALLY Di *vi "sion *al *ly, adv.

 

Defn: So as to be divisional.

 

DIVISIONARY

DIVISIONARY Di *vi "sion *a *ry, a.

 

Defn: Divisional.

 

DIVISIONOR

DIVISIONOR Di *vi "sion *or, n.

 

Defn: One who divides or makes division. [Obs. ] Sheldon.

 

DIVISIVE

Di *vi "sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. divisif.]

 

1. Indicating division or distribution. Mede.

 

2. Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference. It [culture ] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp.-- Di *vi "sive *ly, adv. -- Di *vi "sive *ness, n. Carlyle.

 

DIVISOR

Di *vi "sor, n. Etym: [L., fr. dividere. See Divide. ] (Math. )

 

Defn: The number by which the dividend is divided. Common divisor. (Math. ) See under Common, a.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

divi

div i ▶noun ( pl. divis ) British variant spelling of divvy.

 

divide

di vide |diˈvīd dəˈvaɪd | ▶verb 1 separate or be separated into parts: [ with obj. ] : consumer magazines can be divided into a number of different categories | [ no obj. ] : the cell clusters began to divide rapidly. • [ with obj. ] separate (something ) into portions and distribute a share to each of a number of people: Jack divided up the rest of the cash | the property was divided among his heirs. • [ with obj. ] allocate (different parts of one's time, attention, or efforts ) to different activities or places: the last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Paris. • [ with obj. ] form a boundary between (two people or things ): the artificial barrier that has divided an academic education from a vocational one. • (of a legislative assembly ) separate or be separated into two groups for voting: [ no obj. ] : the House divided: 287 for, 196 against. 2 disagree or cause to disagree: [ with obj. ] : the question had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution | (as adj. divided ) : a divided party leadership | [ no obj. ] : cities where politicians frequently divide along racial lines. 3 [ with obj. ] Mathematics find how many times (a number ) contains another: 36 divided by 2 equals 18 | [ no obj. ] : the program helps children to multiply and divide quickly and accurately. • [ no obj. ] (of a number ) be susceptible to division without a remainder: 30 does not divide by 8. • find how many times (a number ) is contained in another: divide 4 into 20. • [ no obj. ] (of a number ) be contained in a number without a remainder: 3 divides into 15. ▶noun a wide divergence between two groups, typically producing tension or hostility: there was still a profound cultural divide between the parties. • a boundary between two things: symbolically, the difference of sex is a divide. • a ridge or line of high ground forming the division between two valleys or river systems. PHRASES divide and conquer (or rule ) the policy of maintaining control over one's subordinates or subjects by encouraging dissent between them. divided against itself (of a group that should be coherent ) split by factional interests: the regime is profoundly divided against itself. ORIGIN Middle English (as a verb ): from Latin dividere ‘force apart, remove. ’ The noun dates from the mid 17th cent.

 

divided highway

di vid ed high way |dəˈvaɪdɪd ˈhaɪˌweɪ | ▶noun a road with a median strip between the traffic in opposite directions and typically two or more lanes in each direction.

 

divided skirt

di vid ed skirt ▶noun dated culottes.

 

dividend

div i dend |ˈdiviˌdend ˈdɪvəˌdɛnd | ▶noun 1 a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly ) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves ). • a payment divided among a number of people, e.g., members of a cooperative or creditors of an insolvent estate. • an individual's share of a dividend. • (dividends ) a benefit from an action or policy: persistence pays dividends. See also peace dividend. 2 Mathematics a number to be divided by another number. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (in the general sense ‘portion, share ’): from Anglo-Norman French dividende, from Latin dividendum ‘something to be divided, ’ from the verb dividere (see divide ).

 

dividend cover

divi |dend cover ▶noun the ratio of a company's net profits to the total sum allotted in dividends to ordinary shareholders.

 

dividend coverage

div i dend cov er age ▶noun the ratio of a company's dividends to its net income.

 

dividend warrant

divi |dend war |rant ▶noun a document that shows that a shareholder is entitled to a dividend.

 

dividend yield

div i dend yield ▶noun a dividend expressed as a percentage of a current share price.

 

divider

di vid er |diˈvīdər dəˈvaɪdər | ▶noun 1 a person or thing that divides a whole into parts. • an issue on which opinions are divided: the big divider was still nuclear weapons. • (also room divider ) a screen or piece of furniture that divides a room into two parts. 2 (dividers ) a measuring compass, esp. one with a screw for making fine adjustments.

 

dividing line

di vid ing line |dəˈvaɪdɪŋ laɪn | ▶noun the boundary between two areas: the dividing line between eastern and western zones. • a distinction or set of distinctions marking the difference between two related things: the dividing line between drama and reality.

 

divi-divi

div i-div i |ˌdivē ˈdivē ˌdɪvi ˈdɪvi | ▶noun ( pl. divi-divis ) a tropical American tree of the pea family, bearing curled pods. [Caesalpinia coriaria, family Leguminosae. ] • these pods, used as a source of tannin. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: via American Spanish from Carib.

 

divination

div i na tion |ˌdivəˈnāSHən ˌdɪvəˈneɪʃən | ▶noun the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. DERIVATIVES di vin a to ry |diˈvinəˌtôrē |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin divinatio (n- ), from divinare ‘predict ’ (see divine 2 ).

 

divine

di vine 1 |diˈvīn dəˈvaɪn | ▶adjective ( diviner , divinest ) 1 of, from, or like God or a god: heroes with divine powers | paintings of shipwrecks being prevented by divine intervention. • devoted to God; sacred: divine liturgy. 2 informal, dated excellent; delightful: that succulent clementine tasted divine | he had the most divine smile. ▶noun 1 dated a cleric or theologian. 2 ( the Divine ) providence or God. DERIVATIVES di vine ly adverb, di vine ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin divinus, from divus ‘godlike ’ (related to deus ‘god ’).

 

divine

di vine 2 |dəˈvaɪn diˈvīn | ▶verb [ with obj. ] discover (something ) by guesswork or intuition: his brother usually divined his ulterior motives | [ with clause ] : they had divined that he was a fake. • have supernatural or magical insight into (future events ): frauds who claimed to divine the future in chickens' entrails. • discover (water ) by dowsing. DERIVATIVES di vin er noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French deviner ‘predict, ’ from Latin divinare, from divinus (see divine 1 ).

 

Divine Office

Di vine Of fice ▶noun see office ( sense 4 ).

 

divine right of kings

di vine right of kings ▶noun the doctrine that kings derive their authority from God, not from their subjects, from which it follows that rebellion is the worst of political crimes. It was claimed in Britain by the earlier Stuarts and is also associated with the absolutism of Louis XIV of France.

 

divine service

di vine serv ice ▶noun public Christian worship.

 

diving

div ing |ˈdīviNG daɪvɪŋ | ▶noun 1 the sport or activity of swimming or exploring underwater. 2 the sport or activity of diving into water from a diving board.

 

diving beetle

div ing bee tle ▶noun a predatory water beetle that has fringed back legs for swimming and stores air under its wing cases while diving. [Family Dytiscidae: numerous genera and species, including the great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis ).]

 

diving bell

div ing bell |ˈdaɪvɪŋ ˈˌbɛl | ▶noun an open-bottomed chamber supplied with compressed air, in which a person can be let down under water.

 

diving board

div ing board |ˈdaɪvɪŋ ˈˌbɔ (ə )rd | ▶noun an elevated board projecting over a swimming pool or other body of water, from which people dive or jump in.

 

diving duck

div ing duck ▶noun a duck of a type that dives under water for food, such as the pochard, scaup, tufted duck, and goldeneye. Compare with dabbling duck. [Tribes Aythyini and Mergini, family Anatidae: several genera, in particular Aythya and Bucephala. ]

 

diving petrel

div ing pet rel ▶noun a stocky auklike seabird of southern oceans, having black upper parts and white underparts. [Family Pelecanoididae and genus Pelecanoides: four species, in particular the common (or northern ) diving petrel (P. urinatrix ).]

 

diving suit

div ing suit ▶noun a watertight suit, typically with a helmet and an air supply, worn for working or exploring deep underwater.

 

divining rod

di vin ing rod ▶noun a stick or rod used for dowsing.

 

divinity

di vin i ty |diˈvinitē dəˈvɪnɪdi | ▶noun 1 ( pl. divinities ) the state or quality of being divine: Christ's divinity. • the study of religion; theology: a doctor of divinity. • a divine being; a god or goddess: busts of various Roman divinities. • ( the Divinity ) God. 2 a fluffy, creamy candy made with stiffly beaten egg whites. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French divinite, from Latin divinitas, from divinus ‘belonging to a deity ’ (see divine 1 ).

 

divinize

div i nize |ˈdivəˌnīz ˈdɪvɪnaɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (someone ) divine; deify: this brush with death seems to have divinized her. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French diviniser, from divin ‘divine. ’

 

divisi

di vi si |diˈvēzē dɪˈvizi | ▶adjective a musical direction indicating that a section of players should be divided into two or more groups, each playing a different part: [ postpositive ] : violas divisi | divisi passages. ▶noun ( pl. same ) a passage written or played in this manner. ORIGIN Italian, literally ‘divided ’ (plural ), from dividere ‘to divide. ’

 

divisible

di vis i ble |diˈvizəbəl dəˈvɪzəbəl | ▶adjective capable of being divided: the marine environment is divisible into a number of areas. • Mathematics (of a number ) capable of being divided by another number without a remainder: 24 is divisible by 4. DERIVATIVES di vis i bil i ty |-ˌvizəˈbilitē |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin divisibilis, from divis- ‘divided, ’ from the verb dividere (see divide ).

 

division

di vi sion |diˈviZHən dəˈvɪʒən | ▶noun 1 the action of separating something into parts, or the process of being separated: the division of the land into small fields | a gene that helps regulate cell division. • the distribution of something separated into parts: the division of his estates between the two branches of his family. • an instance of members of a legislative body separating into two groups to vote for or against a bill: the new clause was agreed without a division. • the action of splitting the roots of a perennial plant into parts to be replanted separately, as a means of propagation: the plant can also be easily increased by division in autumn. • Logic the action of dividing a wider class into two or more subclasses. 2 disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension or hostility: a growing sense of division between north and south | a country with ethnic and cultural divisions. 3 the process or skill of dividing one number by another. See also long division, short division. • Mathematics the process of dividing a matrix, vector, or other quantity by another under specific rules to obtain a quotient. 4 each of the parts into which something is divided: the main divisions of the book. • a major unit or section of an organization, typically one handling a particular kind of work: a retail division. • a group of army brigades or regiments: an infantry division. • a number of teams or competitors grouped together in a sport for competitive purposes according to such characteristics as ability, size, or geographic location: the team will finish in fifth place in Division One. • a part of a county, country, or city defined for administrative or political purposes: a licensing division of a district. • Brit. a part of a county or borough forming a parliamentary constituency: he was MP for the Lancaster division of North Lancashire. • Botany a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to the phylum in zoology. • Zoology any subsidiary category between major levels of classification. 5 a partition that divides two groups or things: the villagers lived in a communal building and there were no solid divisions between neighbors. PHRASES division of labor the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French devisiun, from Latin divisio (n- ), from the verb dividere (see divide ).

 

divisional

di vi sion al |diˈviZHənl dəˈvɪʒənl | ▶adjective of or relating to an organizational or administrative division: a divisional manager. • forming a partition: divisional walls. DERIVATIVES di vi sion al ly adverb

 

divisionalize

di vi sion al ize |diˈviZHənlˌīz dəˈvɪʒənəlaɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. divisionalized ) subdivide (a company or other organization ) into a number of separate divisions: a large divisionalized Western corporation. • [ no obj. ] undergo this process. DERIVATIVES di vi sion al i za tion |diˌviZHənələˈzāSHən |noun

 

division bell

div |ision bell ▶noun (in Britain ) a bell rung in Parliament to announce an imminent division.

 

divisionism

di vi sion ism |diˈviZHəˌnizəm dəˈvɪʒənɪzəm | ▶noun another term for pointillism.

 

division sign

di vi sion sign ▶noun the sign ÷, placed between two numbers showing that the first is to be divided by the second, as in 6 ÷ 3 = 2.

 

divisive

di vi sive |diˈvīsiv dəˈvaɪsɪv | ▶adjective tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people: the highly divisive issue of abortion. DERIVATIVES di vi sive ly adverb, di vi sive ness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting something that divides or separates ): from late Latin divisivus, from Latin dividere (see divide ).

 

divisor

di vi sor |diˈvīzər dəˈvaɪzər | ▶noun Mathematics a number by which another number is to be divided. • a number that divides into another without a remainder: the greatest common divisor. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French diviseur or Latin divisor, from dividere (see divide ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

divi

divi ▶noun ( pl. divis ) variant spelling of divvy 1.

 

divide

div ¦ide |dɪˈvʌɪd | ▶verb 1 separate or be separated into parts: [ with obj. ] : consumer magazines can be divided into a number of categories | [ no obj. ] : the cell clusters began to divide rapidly. • [ with obj. ] separate (something ) into portions and share out among a number of people: Jack divided up the rest of the cash | profits from his single were divided between a number of charities. • [ with obj. ] allocate (different parts of one's time or efforts ) to different activities or places: the last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Paris. • [ with obj. ] form a boundary between (two people or things ): glass panels divide the bar from the TV room. • (of a legislative assembly ) separate or be separated into two groups for voting: [ no obj. ] : the House divided: Ayes 287, Noes 196 | [ with obj. ] : the Party decided to put down an amendment and thus divide the House. 2 disagree or cause to disagree: [ with obj. ] : the question had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution | (as adj. divided ) : a divided party leadership | [ no obj. ] : cities where politicians frequently divide along racial lines. 3 [ with obj. ] Mathematics find how many times (a number ) contains another: 36 divided by 2 equals 18. • [ no obj. ] (of a number ) be susceptible of division without a remainder: 30 does not divide by 8. • find how many times (a number ) is contained in another: divide 4 into 20. • [ no obj. ] (of a number ) be contained in a number without a remainder: 3 divides into 15. ▶noun a difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension: there was still a profound cultural divide between the parties. • a boundary between two things: symbolically, the difference of sex is a divide. • chiefly US a ridge or line of high ground forming the division between two valleys or river systems. PHRASES divide and rule (or conquer ) the policy of maintaining control over one's subordinates or opponents by encouraging dissent between them, thereby preventing them from uniting in opposition. divided against itself (of a group which should be coherent ) split by factional interests: the regime is profoundly divided against itself. ORIGIN Middle English (as a verb ): from Latin dividere ‘force apart, remove ’. The noun dates from the mid 17th cent.

 

divided highway

div |ided high |way ▶noun N. Amer. a dual carriageway.

 

divided skirt

div |ided skirt ▶noun dated culottes.

 

dividend

dividend |ˈdɪvɪdɛnd | ▶noun 1 a sum of money paid regularly (typically annually ) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves ). • a payment divided among a number of people, e.g. winners in a football pool or members of a cooperative. • an individual's share of a dividend. • (dividends ) a benefit from an action or policy: buying a rail pass may still pay dividends. 2 Mathematics a number to be divided by another number. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (in the general sense ‘portion, share ’): from Anglo-Norman French dividende, from Latin dividendum ‘something to be divided ’, from the verb dividere (see divide ).

 

dividend cover

divi |dend cover ▶noun the ratio of a company's net profits to the total sum allotted in dividends to ordinary shareholders.

 

dividend coverage

div i dend cov er age ▶noun the ratio of a company's dividends to its net income.

 

dividend warrant

divi |dend war |rant ▶noun a document that shows that a shareholder is entitled to a dividend.

 

dividend yield

divi |dend yield ▶noun a dividend expressed as a percentage of a current share price.

 

divider

div |ider |dɪˈvʌɪdə | ▶noun 1 a person or thing that divides a whole into parts. • (also room divider ) a screen or piece of furniture that divides a room into two parts. • an issue on which opinions are divided: on the Labour side, the big divider was still nuclear weapons. 2 (dividers ) a measuring compass, especially one with a screw for making fine adjustments.

 

dividing line

div |id ¦ing line ▶noun the boundary between two areas. • a distinction or set of distinctions marking the difference between two things that are closely related: the smudged dividing line between drama and reality.

 

divi-divi

divi-divi |ˈdɪvɪˌdɪvi | ▶noun ( pl. divi-divis ) a small tropical American tree of the pea family. ●Caesalpinia coriaria, family Leguminosae. • [ mass noun ] the curled pods of the divi-divi tree, used as a source of tannin. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: via American Spanish from Carib.

 

divination

divination |ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. DERIVATIVES divinatory adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin divinatio (n- ), from divinare ‘predict ’ (see divine 2 ).

 

divine

divine 1 |dɪˈvʌɪn | ▶adjective ( diviner, divinest ) 1 of or like God or a god: heroes with divine powers | paintings of shipwrecks being prevented by divine intervention. • devoted to God; sacred: divine liturgy. 2 informal very pleasing; delightful: he had the most divine smile. ▶noun 1 dated a cleric or theologian. 2 ( the Divine ) providence or God. DERIVATIVES divinely adverb, divineness noun ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin divinus, from divus ‘godlike ’ (related to deus ‘god ’).

 

divine

divine 2 |dɪˈvʌɪn | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 discover (something ) by guesswork or intuition: mum had divined my state of mind | [ with clause ] : they had divined that he was a fake. 2 have supernatural or magical insight into (future events ): frauds who claimed to divine the future in chickens' entrails. • discover (water ) by dowsing. DERIVATIVES diviner noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French deviner ‘predict ’, from Latin divinare, from divinus (see divine 1 ).

 

Divine Office

Divine Office ▶noun see office ( sense 4 ).

 

divine right of kings

div ¦ine right of kings ▶noun the doctrine that kings derive their authority from God not their subjects, from which it follows that rebellion is the worst of political crimes. It was enunciated in Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries under the Stuarts and is also associated with the absolutism of Louis XIV of France.

 

divine service

div ¦ine ser |vice ▶noun [ mass noun ] public Christian worship.

 

diving

div ¦ing |ˈdʌɪvɪŋ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the sport or activity of swimming or exploring under water. 2 the sport or activity of diving into water from a diving board.

 

diving beetle

div ¦ing bee ¦tle ▶noun a predatory water beetle which has fringed back legs for swimming and which stores air under its wing cases while diving. ●Family Dytiscidae: numerous genera and species, including the great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis ).

 

diving bell

div ¦ing bell ▶noun an open-bottomed chamber supplied with air, in which a person can be let down under water.

 

diving board

div ¦ing board ▶noun an elevated board projecting over a swimming pool or other body of water, from which people dive or jump in.

 

diving duck

div ¦ing duck ▶noun a duck of a type which dives under water for food, such as the pochard, scaup, tufted duck, and goldeneye. Compare with dabbling duck. ●Tribes Aythyini and Mergini, family Anatidae: several genera, in particular Aythya and Bucephala.

 

diving petrel

div ing pet rel ▶noun a stocky auklike seabird of southern oceans, having black upper parts and white underparts. [Family Pelecanoididae and genus Pelecanoides: four species, in particular the common (or northern ) diving petrel (P. urinatrix ).]

 

diving suit

div ¦ing suit ▶noun a watertight suit, typically with a helmet and an air supply, worn for working or exploring deep under water.

 

divining rod

div |in ¦ing rod ▶noun a stick or rod used for dowsing.

 

divinity

divinity |dɪˈvɪnɪti | ▶noun ( pl. divinities ) [ mass noun ] 1 the state or quality of being divine: Christ's divinity. • [ count noun ] a divine being; a god or goddess: busts of Roman divinities. • ( the Divinity ) God. 2 the study of religion; theology: a doctor of divinity. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French divinite, from Latin divinitas, from divinus ‘belonging to a deity ’ (see divine 1 ).

 

divinize

divinize |ˈdɪvɪnʌɪz |(also divinise ) ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (someone ) divine; deify. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French diviniser, from divin ‘divine ’.

 

divisi

divisi |dɪˈviːsi | ▶adjective a musical direction indicating that a section of players should be divided into two or more groups each playing a different part: [ postpositive ] : violas divisi. ▶noun ( pl. same ) a divisi passage of music. ORIGIN Italian, literally ‘divided ’ (plural ), from dividere ‘to divide ’.

 

divisible

divisible |dɪˈvɪzɪb (ə )l | ▶adjective 1 capable of being divided: the marine environment is divisible into a number of areas. 2 Mathematics (of a number ) containing another number a number of times without a remainder: 24 is divisible by 4. DERIVATIVES divisibility |-ˈbɪlɪti |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin divisibilis, from divis- ‘divided ’, from the verb dividere (see divide ).

 

division

div |ision |dɪˈvɪʒ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated: the division of the land into small fields | a gene that helps regulate cell division. • the distribution of something separated into parts: the division of his estates between the two branches of his family. • [ count noun ] an instance of members of a legislative body separating into two groups to vote: the new clause was agreed without a division. • Logic the action of dividing a wider class into two or more subclasses. 2 difference or disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension: a growing sense of division between north and south | [ count noun ] : a country with ethnic and cultural divisions. 3 the process of dividing one number by another. • Mathematics the process of dividing a matrix, vector, or other quantity by another under specific rules to obtain a quotient. 4 [ count noun ] each of the parts into which something is divided: the main divisions of the book. • a major section of an organization, with responsibility for a particular area of activity: a retail division. • a group of army brigades or regiments: an infantry division. • a number of teams or competitors grouped together in a sport for competitive purposes according to such characteristics as ability or weight: the club will finish second in Division One. • a part of a county, country, or city defined for administrative or political purposes: a licensing division of a district. • Brit. a part of a county or borough forming a parliamentary constituency. • Botany a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to the phylum in zoology. • Zoology any subsidiary category between major levels of classification. 5 [ count noun ] a partition: the villagers lived in a communal building and there were no solid divisions between neighbours. PHRASES division of labour the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French devisiun, from Latin divisio (n- ), from the verb dividere (see divide ).

 

divisional

div |ision ¦al |dɪˈvɪʒənl | ▶adjective 1 relating to an organizational or administrative division: a divisional manager. 2 forming a partition: divisional walls. DERIVATIVES divisionally adverb

 

divisionalize

divisionalize |dɪˈvɪʒ (ə )n (ə )lʌɪz |(also divisionalise ) ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. divisionalized ) subdivide (an organization ) into a number of divisions: a large divisionalized Western corporation. DERIVATIVES divisionalization |-ˈzeɪʃ (ə )n |noun

 

division bell

div |ision bell ▶noun (in Britain ) a bell rung in Parliament to announce an imminent division.

 

divisionism

div |ision |ism |dɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪz (ə )m | ▶noun another term for pointillism.

 

division lobby

div |ision lobby ▶noun see lobby ( sense 2 of the noun ).

 

division sign

div |ision sign ▶noun the sign ÷, placed between two numbers showing that the first is to be divided by the second, as in 6 ÷ 3 = 2.

 

divisive

divisive |dɪˈvʌɪsɪv | ▶adjective tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people: the highly divisive issue of abortion. DERIVATIVES divisively adverb, divisiveness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting something that divides or separates ): from late Latin divisivus, from Latin dividere (see divide ).

 

divisor

divisor |dɪˈvʌɪzə | ▶noun Mathematics a number by which another number is to be divided. • a number that divides into another without a remainder. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French diviseur or Latin divisor, from dividere (see divide ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

divide

divide verb 1 he divided his estate into separate holdings: split (up ), cut up, carve up; dissect, bisect, halve, quarter; literary sunder. ANTONYMS unify, join, converge. 2 a curtain divided her cabin from the galley: separate, segregate, partition, screen off, section off, split off. ANTONYMS unify, join, converge. 3 the stairs divide at the mezzanine: diverge, separate, part, branch (off ), fork, split (in two ), bifurcate. ANTONYMS unify, join, converge. 4 Jack divided up the cash: share out, allocate, allot, apportion, portion out, ration out, parcel out, deal out, dole out, dish out, distribute, dispense; informal divvy up. 5 he aimed to divide his opponents: disunite, drive apart, break up, split up, set at variance, set at odds; separate, isolate, estrange, alienate; literary tear asunder. ANTONYMS unify, unite. 6 living things are divided into three categories: classify, sort (out ), categorize, order, group, grade, rank. ANTONYMS combine. ▶noun the sectarian divide: breach, gulf, gap, split; borderline, boundary, dividing line.

 

dividend

dividend noun 1 an annual dividend: share, portion, premium, return, gain, profit, commission; informal cut. 2 the research will produce dividends in the future: benefit, advantage, gain; bonus, extra, plus.

 

divination

divination noun he looked to divination for guidance: fortune telling, divining, prophecy, prediction, soothsaying, augury; clairvoyance, second sight.

 

divine

divine adjective 1 a divine being: godly, angelic, seraphic, saintly, beatific; heavenly, celestial, supernal, holy. ANTONYMS mortal. 2 divine worship: religious, holy, sacred, sanctified, consecrated, blessed, devotional. 3 informal this food is divine. See excellent. ▶noun dated puritan divines: theologian, clergyman, clergywoman, member of the clergy, churchman, churchwoman, cleric, minister, man /woman of the cloth, preacher, priest; informal reverend. ▶verb 1 Fergus divined how afraid she was: guess, surmise, conjecture, deduce, infer; discern, intuit, perceive, recognize, see, realize, appreciate, understand, grasp, comprehend; informal figure (out ), savvy. 2 they divined that this was an auspicious day: foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, foresee, prognosticate. WORD TOOLKIT See heavenly . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

diviner

diviner noun she claimed to be a diviner who had received her second sight from an ancient sage: fortune teller, clairvoyant, psychic, seer, soothsayer, prognosticator, prophesier, oracle, sibyl, crystal-gazer.

 

divinity

divinity noun 1 the divinity of Christ: divine nature, godliness, deity, godhead, holiness. 2 the study of divinity: theology, religious studies, religion, scripture. 3 a female divinity: deity, god, goddess, divine being, supreme being.

 

division

division noun 1 the division of the island | cell division: dividing (up ), breaking up, breakup, carving up, splitting, dissection, bisection; partitioning, separation, segregation. 2 the division of his assets: sharing out, dividing up, parceling out, dishing out, allocation, allotment, apportionment; splitting up, carving up; informal divvying up. 3 the division between nomadic and urban cultures: dividing line, divide, boundary, borderline, border, demarcation line. 4 each class is divided into nine divisions: section, subsection, subdivision, category, class, group, grouping, set, subset, family. 5 an independent division of the company: department, branch, arm, wing, sector, section, subsection, subdivision, subsidiary. 6 the causes of social division: disunity, disunion, conflict, discord, disagreement, dissension, disaffection, estrangement, alienation, isolation.

 

divisive

divisive adjective a divisive scheme to set his rivals against each other: alienating, estranging, isolating, schismatic. ANTONYMS unifying.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

divide

divide verb 1 he divided his kingdom into four: split, cut up, cleave, carve up, slice up, chop up, split up; dissect, bisect, halve, quarter; archaic sunder, rive; rare fractionate, disjoin. ANTONYMS unify, join. 2 a curtain divided her cabin from the galley: separate, segregate, partition, detach, disconnect, screen off, section off, split off, demarcate, distinguish; sever, rend. ANTONYMS unify, join. 3 the stairs divide at the mezzanine: diverge, separate, part, branch, branch off, fork, split, split in two, go in different directions, go separate ways; technical divaricate, bifurcate, furcate, ramify. ANTONYMS converge. 4 the time came to divide Aunt Bessie's property | Jack divided up the rest of the cash: share out, allocate, allot, apportion, portion out, ration out, measure out, mete out, parcel out, deal out, dole out, hand out, distribute, dispense; split, carve up, slice up, break up; informal divvy up, dish out; rare admeasure. 5 he aimed to divide and defeat his party's opponents: disunite, drive apart, break up, split up; detach, divorce, separate, isolate, estrange, alienate, disaffect; set against one another, pit against one another, cause disagreement among, sow dissension among, drive a wedge between, set at variance, set at odds, come between; archaic sunder, tear asunder; rare dichotomize, factionalize, dissever. ANTONYMS unite. 6 biologists divide living things into three broad categories: classify, sort, sort out, categorize, order, group, pigeonhole, grade, rank; organize, arrange, dispose; separate, segregate, partition. ANTONYMS combine. ▶noun the divide between the sacred and secular: breach, gulf, gap, split, divergence, differentiation; borderline, boundary, dividing line.

 

dividend

dividend noun 1 the shareholder receives a substantial annual dividend: share, portion, percentage, premium, return, payback, gain, surplus, profit; informal cut, take, rake-off, divvy, whack, slice of the cake, piece of the action, pickings. 2 the research will produce dividends for future heart patients: benefit, advantage, gain, bonus, extra, added extra, plus, fringe benefit, additional benefit; informal perk; formal perquisite. ANTONYMS disadvantage.

 

divination

divination noun she looked to divination for guidance when important decisions loomed: fortune telling, divining, foretelling the future, forecasting the future, prophecy, prediction, soothsaying, augury; clairvoyance, second sight; magic, sorcery, witchcraft, spell-working; rare vaticination, sortilege, auspication, witchery. WORD LINKS divination mantic, -mancy, relating to divination, as in geomancy, necromancy Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

divine

divine 1 adjective 1 Jesus is one person in both divine and human natures | he asked for divine guidance: godly, godlike, angelic, seraphic, saintly, beatific; spiritual, heavenly, celestial, holy; rare empyrean, deiform, deific. ANTONYMS mortal. 2 he could not be persuaded to attend divine worship: religious, holy, sacred, sanctified, consecrated, blessed, devotional, devoted to God, dedicated to God. 3 informal don't you think he looks rather divine? | we ate the most divine food: lovely, handsome, beautiful, good-looking, prepossessing, charming, delightful, appealing, engaging, winsome, ravishing, gorgeous, bewitching, beguiling; wonderful, glorious, marvellous, excellent, superlative, perfect; delicious, mouth-watering, delectable; Scottish & N. English bonny; informal heavenly, sublime, dreamy, sensational, knockout, stunning, super, great, tasty, fanciable, easy on the eye, a sight for sore eyes, as nice as pie; Brit. informal brilliant, brill, smashing; N. Amer. informal cute; Austral. /NZ informal beaut; formal beauteous; dated taking; archaic comely, fair; rare sightly. ANTONYMS mundane; dreadful. ▶noun puritan divines were concentrated on the salvation of the human soul: theologian, clergyman, member of the clergy, churchman, churchwoman, cleric, ecclesiastic, man of the cloth, man of God, holy man, holy woman, preacher, priest; Scottish kirkman; informal reverend, Holy Joe, sky pilot; Austral. informal josser. WORD TOOLKIT divine See heavenly . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

divine

divine 2 verb 1 Fergus had divined how afraid she was: guess, surmise, conjecture, suspect, suppose, assume, presume, deduce, infer, work out, theorize, hypothesize; discern, intuit, perceive, recognize, see, realize, appreciate, understand, grasp, apprehend, comprehend; N. Amer. figure; informal figure out, latch on to, cotton on to, catch on to, tumble to, get, get the picture; Brit. informal twig, suss; N. Amer. informal savvy; rare cognize. 2 they had divined through omens that this was an auspicious day: foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, foresee, prognosticate; forewarn, forebode; archaic previse, presage, foreshow, croak; Scottish archaic spae; rare vaticinate, auspicate. 3 he divined water supplies for desert troops: dowse, find by dowsing.

 

diviner

diviner noun she asked a diviner about her son's prospects: fortune teller, clairvoyant, crystal-gazer, visionary, psychic, seer, soothsayer, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophetess, oracle, sibyl, sage, wise man, wise woman; Scottish spaewife, spaeman; rare oracler, vaticinator, haruspex.

 

divinity

divinity noun 1 the divinity of Christ: divine nature, divineness, godliness, deity, godhead, holiness, sanctity, sanctitude, sacredness, blessedness. 2 they persuaded him to read mathematics, not divinity: theology, religious studies, religion, scripture. 3 the ancient religions worshipped a female divinity: deity, god, goddess, mother goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme being; creator, demiurge; godhead; daemon, numen, power; Hinduism avatar.

 

division

division noun 1 they protested against the division of the island | a special kind of cell division: dividing, dividing up, breaking up, break-up, cutting up, carving up, severance, splitting, dissection, bisection, cleaving; partitioning, separation, segregation, disconnection, detachment. 2 she supervised the division of his estates: sharing out, dividing up, parcelling out, allocation, allotment, apportionment, distribution, dispensation, disbursement; splitting up, carving up, slicing up; informal divvying up, dishing out. ANTONYMS integration. 3 the division between nomadic and urban cultures: dividing line, divide, boundary, boundary line, borderline, border, partition, margin, demarcation line, line of demarcation, cut-off point. 4 each of these classes is divided into nine divisions: section, subsection, subdivision, part, portion, piece, bit, segment, slice, fragment, chunk, component, share; compartment, category, class, group, grouping, set, order, batch, family. 5 an independent division of the Health and Safety Executive: department, branch, arm, wing, sector, section, subsection, subdivision, subsidiary, detachment, office, bureau, offshoot, satellite, extension. 6 the causes of social division were analysed: disunity, disunion, conflict, discord, disagreement, dissension, disaffection, estrangement, alienation, isolation, detachment; variance, difference; difference of opinion, feud, breach, rupture, split, chasm; informal falling-out; rare scission. ANTONYMS unity. WORD LINKS division schizo- related prefix, as in schizocarp Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

divisive

divisive adjective they declared outrage at the divisive effects of government policy: alienating, estranging, isolating, schismatic; discordant, disharmonious, inharmonious. ANTONYMS unifying.

 

Duden Dictionary

divide et impera

di vi de et im pe ra |d i vide et i mpera |lateinisch ; »teile und herrsche!«stifte Unfrieden unter denen, die du beherrschen willst! legendäres, sprichwörtlich gewordenes Prinzip der altrömischen Außenpolitik

 

divide et impera!

di vi de et im pe ra! |d i vide et i mpera!|lateinisch = teile und herrsche!; vielleicht lateinische Form des dem französischen Herrscher Ludwig XI. (König von 1461 bis 1483 ) zugeschriebenen Ausspruchs französisch diviser pour régner = teilen, um zu herrschen stifte Unfrieden unter denen, die du beherrschen willst!

 

Dividend

Di vi dend Substantiv, maskulin Mathematik , der |Divid e nd |der Dividend; Genitiv: des Dividenden, Plural: die Dividenden lateinisch dividendus = zu teilender (Wert ), zu: dividere, dividieren Zahl, die durch eine andere Zahl geteilt wird

 

Dividende

Di vi den de Substantiv, feminin Wirtschaft , die |Divid e nde |die Dividende; Genitiv: der Dividende, Plural: die Dividenden französisch dividende < lateinisch dividendum = das zu Teilende, zu: dividere, dividieren jährlich auf eine Aktie entfallender Anteil vom Reingewinn eine hohe Dividende ausschütten, zahlen | die Dividende erhöhen

 

Dividendenausschüttung

Di vi den den aus schüt tung Substantiv, feminin Wirtschaft , die |Divid e ndenausschüttung |Auszahlung von Dividenden

 

Dividendenschein

Di vi den den schein Substantiv, maskulin , der |Divid e ndenschein |

 

dividieren

di vi die ren schwaches Verb Mathematik |divid ie ren |schwaches Verb; Perfektbildung mit »hat « spätmittelhochdeutsch dividieren < lateinisch dividere (eine Zahl durch eine andere ) teilen 20 durch 5 dividieren | 10 dividiert durch 2 ist, gibt 5

 

Dividivi

Di vi di vi Pluralwort , die |Divid i vi |die Dividivi (Plural ) indianisch-spanisch gerbstoffreiche Schoten einer [sub ]tropischen Pflanze

 

Divina Commedia

Di vi na Com me dia Substantiv, feminin , die |Div i na Comm e dia |die Divina Commedia; Genitiv: der Divina Commedia italienisch Dantes »Göttliche Komödie «

 

Divination

Di vi na ti on Substantiv, feminin bildungssprachlich , die |Divinati o n |die Divination; Genitiv: der Divination, Plural: die Divinationen lateinisch divinatio, zu: divinare = göttliche Eingebung haben Voraussage von Ereignissen die Gabe der Divination besitzen

 

divinatorisch

di vi na to risch Adjektiv bildungssprachlich |divinat o risch |die Fähigkeit der Divination besitzend

 

Divinität

Di vi ni tät Substantiv, feminin bildungssprachlich , die |Divinit ä t |lateinisch divinitas Göttlichkeit; göttliches Wesen

 

Divis

Di vis Substantiv, Neutrum Druckwesen , das |Div i s |das Divis; Genitiv: des Divises, Plural: die Divise zu lateinisch divisum, 2. Partizip von: dividere, dividieren Bindestrich

 

divisi

di vi si Adverb |div i si |lateinisch-italienisch musikalisches Vortragszeichen, das Streichern bei mehrstimmigen Stellen vorschreibt, dass diese nicht mit Doppelgriffen, sondern geteilt (von zwei Musikern ) zu spielen sind Abkürzung: div.

 

Division

Di vi si on Substantiv, feminin , die |Divisi o n |die Division; Genitiv: der Division, Plural: die Divisionen 1 lateinisch divisio Mathematik Teilung (einer Zahl durch eine andere ); das Dividieren eine Division vornehmen | die Division geht [ohne Rest ] auf 2 größere militärische Einheit, größerer Truppenverband (bei verschiedenen Waffengattungen )französisch division, eigentlich = Abteilung Kurzform: Dion 2 die französischen Divisionen | eine Division wird aufgerieben | eine Division aufstellen, [neu ] zusammenstellen 3 Fußball (besonders in Frankreich, Großbritannien ) Spielklasse in der ersten Division spielen 4 |auch englisch dɪˈvɪʒ (ə )n |bei englischer Aussprache: Plural: Divisions englisch division Wirtschaft Sparte, Geschäftsbereich

 

Divisionär

Di vi si o när Substantiv, maskulin , der |Division ä r |der Divisionär; Genitiv: des Divisionärs, Plural: die Divisionäre französisch divisionnaire 1 Militär, besonders österreichisch, schweizerisch Befehlshaber einer Division 2 Angehöriger einer Division 3

 

Divisionärin

Di vi si o nä rin Substantiv, feminin , die |Division ä rin |

 

Divisionismus

Di vi si o nis mus Substantiv, maskulin , der |Division i smus |der Divisionismus; Genitiv: des Divisionismus Richtung der modernen französischen Malerei (Zerteilung der Farben in einzelne Tupfen ), Vorstufe des Pointillismus

 

Divisionist

Di vi si o nist Substantiv, maskulin , der |Division i st |der Divisionist; Genitiv: des Divisionisten, Plural: die Divisionisten Vertreter des Divisionismus

 

Divisionistin

Di vi si o nis tin Substantiv, feminin , die |Division i stin |die Divisionistin; Genitiv: der Divisionistin, Plural: die Divisionistinnen weibliche Form zu Divisionist

 

Divisionskommandeur

Di vi si ons kom man deur Substantiv, maskulin Militär , der |Divisi o nskommandeur |Kommandeur einer Division

 

Divisionslazarett

Di vi si ons la za rett Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Divisi o nslazarett |

 

Divisionsstab

Di vi si ons stab Substantiv, maskulin Militär , der |Divisi o nsstab | Stab 2a einer Division

 

Divisionsstärke

Di vi si ons stär ke Substantiv, feminin , die |Divisi o nsstärke |ohne Plural Stärke 3 einer Division einen Truppenverband auf Divisionsstärke bringen

 

Divisionszeichen

Di vi si ons zei chen Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Divisi o nszeichen |Zeichen (in Form eines Doppelpunktes ), das für »geteilt durch, dividiert durch « steht

 

Divisor

Di vi sor Substantiv, maskulin Mathematik , der |Div i sor |der Divisor; Genitiv: des Divisors, Plural: die Divisoren lateinisch divisor, eigentlich = (Ab )teiler Zahl, durch die eine andere geteilt wird

 

Divisorium

Di vi so ri um Substantiv, Neutrum Druckwesen früher , das |Divis o rium |das Divisorium; Genitiv: des Divisoriums, Plural: die Divisorien lateinisch-neulateinisch gabelförmige Blattklammer des Setzers zum Halten der Vorlage

 

French Dictionary

dividende

dividende n. m. nom masculin finances Part de bénéfice attribuée à chaque action d ’une société. : Une augmentation des dividendes.

 

divin

divin , ine adj. adjectif 1 Relatif à Dieu. : La grâce divine. 2 Merveilleux. : Une musique divine. SYNONYME exquis ; sublime . Prononciation Devant un mot commençant par une voyelle, l ’adjectif masculin se prononce comme l ’adjectif féminin. Le divin Enfant

 

divination

divination n. f. nom féminin Prédiction. : La divination par le tarot est peu fiable.

 

divinement

divinement adv. adverbe D ’une manière divine. : Il chante divinement bien.

 

diviniser

diviniser v. tr. verbe transitif 1 Doter d ’un caractère sacré. 2 littéraire Vénérer. aimer

 

divinité

divinité n. f. nom féminin Être divin. : Des divinités païennes. SYNONYME dieu .

 

divis

divis , ise adj. adjectif Où chaque copropriétaire ne possède que sa partie. : Une copropriété divise. ANTONYME indivis .

 

diviser

diviser v. tr. , pronom. verbe transitif 1 Séparer un tout en parties. : Diviser une tarte en cinq parts. SYNONYME partager . Note Technique En mathématiques, on emploie la préposition par. Diviser une quantité, un nombre par cinq. 2 Désunir. : Cette loi divise la population. SYNONYME brouiller . verbe pronominal Se séparer en plusieurs parties. : Le nombre 20 se divise par 2, 4, 5 et 10. Note Grammaticale À la forme pronominale, le participe passé de ce verbe s ’accorde toujours en genre et en nombre avec son sujet. Ces domaines se sont divisés au fil des années. aimer

 

divisibilité

divisibilité n. f. nom féminin Propriété de ce qui est divisible.

 

divisible

divisible adj. adjectif Qui peut être divisé. : Le nombre 12 est divisible.

 

division

division n. f. nom féminin 1 Action de diviser; état d ’une chose divisée. : La division d ’un groupe en équipes. 2 Chacune des parties d ’un tout divisé. : Les divisions de l ’heure, d ’un livre. 3 Désaccord. : Il y a de la division dans la classe. SYNONYME mésentente . 4 mathématiques Opération qui consiste à calculer combien de fois un nombre est contenu dans un autre. : Le quotient est le résultat de la division. 5 Coupure d ’un mot en fin de ligne que l ’on marque par un trait d ’union. tableau – division des mots.

 

Spanish Dictionary

dividendo

dividendo nombre masculino 1 Número que en la operación aritmética de la división se divide entre otro (el divisor ):en la división 36:6 = 6, 36 es el dividendo .2 Parte de las ganancias de una sociedad que se distribuye periódicamente entre sus accionistas :repartir dividendos; un elevado número de valores cotizados en Bolsa procedió al reparto semestral de dividendos .dividendo activo Cantidad de dinero que, al distribuir beneficios una compañía, corresponde a cada acción .dividendo pasivo Cantidad de dinero parcial que se compromete a pagar el suscriptor de una acción u obligación, a requerimiento de la entidad emisora, hasta llegar al desembolso total de la cantidad comprometida .

 

dividir

dividir verbo transitivo 1 Partir un todo en varias partes :dividir un campo; dividir una caja en compartimientos; dividir el pastel en trozos ;las células se dividen mediante complejos procesos .SINÓNIMO fraccionar .2 Establecer [algo ] una separación o servir de separación entre dos o más personas o cosas :el camino divide el campo; las ideologías a veces dividen a la gente; es un fragmento musical breve pero sin cadencias que lo dividan .3 Separar un conjunto en grupos, clases, especies, etc. :dividir las ciencias; dividir las razas humanas; el grupo de los vertebrados es muy amplio y está dividido en dos subgrupos .4 Distribuir algo que puede partirse entre varias personas :dividir una herencia a partes iguales; salió del conflicto dividiendo el papel entre dos actrices; los dos socios se han dividido el trabajo .5 Introducir discordia, desacuerdo u oposición entre varias personas o colectivos :divide y vencerás; la política divide a las familias; las diferentes organizaciones se han dividido ante las declaraciones del funcionario .6 verbo transitivo /verbo intransitivo Realizar una operación aritmética que consiste en hallar las veces que una cantidad (el divisor ) está contenida en otra (el dividendo ):ya sabe dividir; el resultado de dividir 30 entre 5 es 6 .ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo (s. xv ) del latín dividere ‘partir ’, ‘separar ’. A la misma familia etimológica latina pertenecen divisa , divisar e individuo .

 

divierta

divierta nombre femenino Salv coloquial Actividad que se realiza para procurar distracción o entretenimiento :era la única divierta que teníamos .

 

divieso

divieso nombre masculino coloquial Furúnculo .

 

divinal

divinal adjetivo formal Divino :divinal bebida; divinal naturaleza .

 

divinamente

divinamente adverbio 1 Por medios divinos .2 Extraordinariamente bien :pasarlo divinamente .

 

divinidad

divinidad nombre femenino 1 Esencia o naturaleza propia de Dios o de los dioses :los cristianos creen en la divinidad de Jesucristo; según su convicción, un politeísta podría creer en la divinidad de la Luna .2 Ser sobrenatural al que se rinde culto en las religiones politeístas; los creyentes consideran que tiene poder sobre un ámbito concreto de la realidad y sobre el destino de los humanos :las divinidades mitológicas; imploraban los favores de las divinidades .SINÓNIMO deidad, dios .3 coloquial Persona o cosa que produce admiración por ser muy bonita o por reunir unas características extraordinariamente buenas .

 

divinización

divinización nombre femenino 1 Acción de divinizar a una persona o una cosa :en sus escritos puede descubrirse una tendencia a la sacralización o a la divinización de la persona del rey o del emperador .SINÓNIMO deificación .2 Efecto de divinizar a una persona o una cosa :la divinización de los emperadores trajo otro tipo de cultos .

 

divinizar

divinizar verbo transitivo 1 Convertir en dios o considerar como un dios a una persona o una cosa y tratarla como tal :palacios de monarcas divinizados; el poder del emperador se hizo absoluto y teocrático y llegaron a divinizarlo .SINÓNIMO deificar .2 Ensalzar exageradamente las cualidades o virtudes de una persona :en su tiempo fue ya casi divinizado y sus obras, incluso las inacabadas, han sido durante siglos modelos fervorosamente estudiados .SINÓNIMO deificar .3 Hacer sagrada una cosa :Cristo divinizó las bodas de Canaán con su presencia . Conjugación [4 ] como realizar .

 

divino, -na

divino, -na adjetivo 1 De Dios o de los dioses o relacionado con ellos :filiación divina; en la Antigüedad, los griegos atribuían al rayo un carácter divino .2 Que destaca o sobresale por sus cualidades positivas entre los demás :tiene una sonrisa divina .3 divino adverbio Divinamente, muy bien :en la fiesta lo pasamos divino .a lo divino Se aplica a las obras o temas literarios procedentes de la literatura profana que se han modificado o rehecho para transmitir un mensaje religioso :égloga a lo divino; las versiones a lo divino de obras no religiosas fueron muy numerosas en la literatura española entre los siglos xv y xvii . VÉASE al divino botón; palabra divina . ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo (s. x ) del latín divinus, derivado de divus ‘dios ’, variante de deus. De la familia etimológica de dios (V.).

 

divisa

divisa 1 nombre femenino Moneda extranjera manejada en el comercio internacional :mercado de divisas; el franco es la divisa francesa .ETIMOLOGÍA Probablemente préstamo del alemán Devise , del mismo origen que divisa ‘insignia ’.

 

divisa

divisa 2 nombre femenino 1 Insignia o emblema que es el símbolo de una persona, una familia, un cargo, etc. :un escudo con la divisa de la familia .2 Lazo de cintas de colores que distingue en la lidia los toros de cada ganadería :llevaba muchas cintas encarnadas y azules, como toros con su divisa al viento .ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo (s. xv ) del latín divisa ‘dividida ’, participio pasivo femenino de dividere. De la familia etimológica de dividir (V.).

 

divisadero

divisadero nombre masculino Méx Lugar alto desde el cual se puede observar una zona extensa :se subió al divisadero porque desde ahí podía ver todo el valle .

 

divisar

divisar verbo transitivo Ver a cierta distancia algo, en especial cuando no se percibe claramente :no hacía caso de capotes, ni se le podía poner en suerte, pues en el momento que divisaba la vara huía despavorido; en días de buena visibilidad, desde lo alto de la Torre se alcanza a divisar hasta 70 km .ETIMOLOGÍA Derivado de divisa (V.), que ha evolucionado a ‘discernir a distancia ’, ‘ver a lo lejos ’, a partir de los cambios de significado registrados en divisa . De la familia etimológica de dividir (V.).

 

divisibilidad

divisibilidad nombre femenino 1 Cualidad de divisible :la divisibilidad del átomo .ANTÓNIMO indivisibilidad .2 Propiedad de un número entero de poder dividirse por otro, dando como resultado un número entero .

 

divisible

divisible adjetivo 1 Que puede ser dividido :los átomos son divisibles; en las penas divisibles, el período legal de su duración se entiende distribuido en tres partes .ANTÓNIMO indivisible .2 [número ] Que al dividirse entre otro da como resultado un número entero :un número es divisible por cinco cuando acaba en cinco o en cero .

 

división

división nombre femenino 1 Separación o partición de un todo en partes :con el armario hicimos una división del comedor .2 Parte o grupo que resulta de dividir un todo :dentro de cada país puede haber distintos tipos de divisiones (comarcas, regiones, autonomías, estados, etc. ); las parcelas son divisiones elementales del espacio agrícola .3 Marca que se utiliza para dividir un espacio .4 Reparto o distribución entre varias personas de las partes que resultan de dividir un todo :la división de la herencia se suspenderá hasta que se aclaren los términos de la misma .5 Discordia, desacuerdo u oposición entre varias personas o colectivos :la división y los enfrentamientos entre los grupos son constantes .6 Operación aritmética que consiste en calcular cuántas veces (cociente ) una cantidad (el divisor ) está contenida en otra (el dividendo ); se representa con los signos:, / o ―.7 Categoría en que están agrupados, según su nivel, los equipos de un determinado deporte pertenecientes a un país, una región, una competición, etc. :si nuestro equipo gana hoy, subirá de segunda a primera división .división de honor Esp Categoría en la que se agrupan los mejores equipos de un deporte :el F. C. Barcelona es uno de los clásicos de la división de honor de balonmano .8 Unidad militar compuesta por dos o más brigadas o regimientos de distintas armas del ejército y provista de servicios auxiliares :división aérea; división naval; la división suele estar mandada por un general .división acorazada o división blindada División que está formada fundamentalmente por carros de combate o fuerzas transportadas en vehículos blindados .división motorizada División en que las tropas son transportadas sobre camiones o vehículos especiales .9 biol Categoría taxónomica de clasificación de las plantas, inferior a la de reino y superior a la de clase .división celular Proceso de multiplicación de las células en dos células hijas . VÉASE general de división .

 

divisionario, -ria

divisionario, -ria adjetivo [moneda ] Que es una fracción exacta de la moneda de curso legal en un territorio .

 

divisionismo

divisionismo nombre masculino pint Técnica impresionista consistente en la yuxtaposición de los colores sobre el lienzo, de modo que producen un nuevo tono al fundirse en la retina del espectador .SINÓNIMO puntillismo .

 

divismo

divismo nombre masculino 1 Condición de divo (altivo o engreído ):sigue siendo la misma muchacha que al principio, tímida y nada amante de la popularidad y del divismo .2 Cualidad de divo (divino ).

 

divisor, -ra

divisor, -ra adjetivo /nombre masculino 1 [número, cantidad ] Que está contenido en otra cantidad un número exacto de veces :el 5 es divisor de 15 porque 15 lo contiene 3 veces .SINÓNIMO submúltiplo .2 nombre masculino Número que en la operación aritmética de la división divide a otro (el dividendo ):en la división 24:6 = 4, 6 es el divisor .común divisor Número o polinomio por el cual son divisibles dos o más números o polinomios :el 4 es común divisor de 8 y de l6 .máximo común divisor Mayor número o polinomio que divide exactamente dos o más números o polinomios .

 

divisorio, -ria

divisorio, -ria adjetivo 1 Que establece una separación o una división :puntos divisorios; pared divisoria; etapa divisoria .2 adjetivo /nombre femenino [línea ] Que señala los límites entre zonas de la superficie terrestre :la frontera es la línea divisoria entre dos estados, espacios administrativos o regiones .3 [línea ] Que puede considerarse en un terreno y desde la cual las aguas corrientes fluyen en direcciones opuestas .4 mús [línea ] Que separa dos compases .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

divide

di vide /dɪváɪd /〖di (離れて )vide (分ける )〗(名 )division 動詞 ～s /-dz /; ～d /-ɪd /; dividing (→分詞 divided )他動詞 1 〈人が 〉〈人 物 〉を分ける (up ); 〖divide A into B 〗A 〈人 物 〉を分割してB 〈群 部分など 〉にする (up )(→separate 類義 )▸ divide a cake (up ) into several pieces ケーキをいくつかに分ける ▸ divide an apple in half リンゴを2等分する ▸ The test is divided into two sections .テストは2部に分かれている 2 〈道路 川 境界線などが 〉 «…から /…へと » 〈場所 地域 〉を隔てる , 分離する (off ) «from /into » ▸ A stream divides the field (off ) from the two houses .小川が2軒の家と畑を隔てている 3 〈人が 〉【2者の間で /3者以上の間で 】〈金 仕事 土地など 〉を分配する , 分ける (up, out ) «between /among » ; «…の間で » 〈時間など 〉を振り分ける «between » ▸ Our father hoped that we would equally divide his property among ourselves .私たちの父は彼の財産を均等に私たちの間で分けることを望んでいた ▸ divide one's time between teaching and writing 自分の時間を教育と著述に振り分ける 4 【数字で 】〈数字 〉を割る , 割り算する «by » ; 【数字を 】〈数字 〉で割る «into » (↔multiply 1 )▸ Divide 16 by 2. ≒Divide 2 into 16 .16を2で割りなさい ▸ Eight divided by four is [equals, gives ] 2 .8 ÷4 ＝2 5 〈物 事が 〉〈意見 考え 人 〉を分裂させる (↔unite ); 〖be ～d 〗〈人 意見が 〉 «…について » 分裂 [対立 ]している «on, over , about, as to » ▸ The quarrel divided the family .そのけんかで一家に仲たがいが生じた ▸ The researchers are deeply divided on [over ] how to interpret the phenomenon .研究者たちはその現象をどのように解釈するかについて深く対立している ▸ A house divided against itself cannot stand .内部分裂した家は栄えない ▸ United we stand, divided we fall .｟ことわざ ｠団結すれば栄え分裂すれば衰退する 6 ｟かたく ｠ «…から » …を (引き )離す, 隔離する «from » ▸ divide mothers from their children 母親たちを子供たちから引き離す 7 〈議会など 〉を賛否の二派に分ける, 二分する .8 «…に » …を分類する «into » .9 【目盛りを 】〈物差しなど 〉に付ける «into » .自動詞 1 〈人 物が 〉 «…に » 分かれる, 分割する (up ) «into » ; 〈道路 川などが 〉分岐する ; 〘生物 〙〈細胞が 〉分裂する ▸ Divide into pairs and perform a skit .ペアに分かれて寸劇を演じなさい 2 割り算をする ; «…で » 割る «by » ; 〈数が 〉 «…で » 割り切れる «by » ; «…を » 割り切る «into » ▸ Twelve divides by three. ≒Three divides into twelve .12は3で割り切れる 3 〈人が 〉分裂 [対立 ]する ▸ divide along party [ethnic ] lines 党派 [民族 ]に分かれて対立する 4 〈人が 〉共有する, 分け合う .5 〈議会などが 〉採決する .div ì de and r ú le [c ó nquer ]分割し統治する (!分割することによって互いに反発させて統治すること ) .名詞 C 〖通例単数形で 〗1 分割 ; « …の間の » (意見などの )分裂, 隔たり «between » ; 格差 ▸ cultural [political ] divide 文化的 [政治的 ]隔たり .2 境界線, 分岐点, 分かれ目 .3 ｟米 ｠分水嶺 （ぶんすいれい ）, 分水界 (｟英 ｠watershed ).div í ding l ì ne ｟しばしば比喩的に ｠〖通例単数形で 〗 «…の間の » 境界線 «between » .

 

divided

di v í d ed /-ɪd /形容詞 1 分けられた, 分割された ; 分離 [分裂 ]した .2 〘植 〙〈葉が 〉切り込みのある .～̀ h í ghway ｟米 ｠中央分離帯のある幹線道路 (｟英 ｠dual carriageway ).～̀ sk í rt キュロット .

 

dividend

div i dend /dɪ́vɪdènd / (! -vi-は /vɪ /; 強勢は第1音節 ) 〖原義は 「分けられたもの 」〗名詞 複 ～s /-dz /C 1 (株の )配当 (金 ); 〘保険 〙利益配当 (金 )▸ a 22 percent increase in dividends 22パーセントの配当金増加 ▸ the annual [interim, terminal ] dividend 年間 [中間, 最終 ]配当金 2 ｟英 ｠(フットボールの勝負にかけて得られる )賞金, 配当金, トトカルチョ賞金 .3 (一般に )分け前 ; (予想以上の )利益, おまけ .4 〘数 〙被除数 (↔divisor ).p à y d í vidends (将来 )好結果を生む, 役に立つ, (後で )実を結ぶ ▸ The effort is beginning to pay dividends .努力が実を結び始めた .～́ w à rrant ｟英 ｠配当証書 .

 

divider

di v í d er 名詞 C 1 分割する人 [物 ]; ついたて, 間仕切り ; (ファイルなどの )仕切り (用紙 ).2 〖(a pair of ) ～s 〗ディバイダー, 分割コンパス .3 ｟米 ｠中央分離帯 .

 

divination

div i na tion /dɪ̀vɪnéɪʃ (ə )n /名詞 U C 1 占い, 予言 .2 直感, 本能的予見 .

 

divine

di vine /dɪváɪn /形容詞 比較なし /3はmore ～; most ～/～r ; ～st 1 神の , 神による, 神性の ; 神のような ▸ pray for divine help [intervention, retribution ]神 [天 ]の助けを祈り求める ▸ a divine creation 神の創造物 2 神聖な, 神に捧げた ; 神々しい ▸ a divine vocation 聖職 3 ｟やや古 くだけて ｠すてきな, すばらしい ▸ She was wearing a divine dress .彼女はすてきなドレスを着ていた 動詞 他動詞 ｟文 ｠(占いなどで )…を言い当てる, 予言する ; 見抜く ; 〈地下の水脈 鉱脈 〉を占い棒で捜し求める ▸ I can divine a solution to this problem .この問題の解決策がわかる 自動詞 占い [予言 ]をする ; 推測する; (主にY字型の占い棒で )【地下の水脈 鉱脈を 】捜す (dowse 1 ) «for » .名詞 1 C ｟古 ｠聖職者, 僧侶 ; 神学者 .2 〖the D- 〗神 .D -̀ C ó medy 〖the ～〗『神曲 』 〘ダンテの叙事詩 〙.D -̀ Ó ffice 〖the ～〗聖務日課 .～̀ r í ght 神から与えられた王権 ; 王権神授説 ▸ have a divine right to do ｟くだけて ｠自由に …する権利がある .～̀ s é rvice 礼拝 (式 ).div í ning r ò d (通例Y字型の )占い棒 〘地下の水脈 鉱脈の発見に用いる 〙.

 

divinely

di v í ne ly 副詞 1 神のように, 神の力で .2 ｟くだけて ｠すばらしく, 絶妙に .

 

diviner

di v í n er 名詞 C ｟主に英 ｠占い師, 易者 ; 水脈 [鉱脈 ]の探知者 〘占い棒などを使う 〙.

 

diving

di ving /dáɪvɪŋ /名詞 U 1 潜水 .2 (水中への )飛び込み, ダイビング (競技 ).～́ b è etle 〘虫 〙ゲンゴロウ .～́ b è ll つり鐘型潜水装置 〘水中作業用 〙.～́ b ò ard (プールなどの )飛び込み台, 飛び板 .～́ s ù it 潜水服 .

 

divinity

di vin i ty /dɪvɪ́nəti /名詞 複 -ties 1 U 神学 (theology ).2 U 神性, 神格 .3 C 神 ; 神のような人 .4 U クリーム菓子の一種 (divinity fudge ) 〘砂糖, 卵白で作り, しばしばクルミを添える 〙.

 

divisible

di vis i ble /dɪvɪ́zəb (ə )l /形容詞 〖be ～〗 «…に » 分割できる «into » ; 〘数 〙 «…で » 割り切れる, 整除できる «by » ▸ Twelve is divisible by three .12は3で割り切れる

 

division

di vi sion /dɪvɪ́ʒ (ə )n /→divide 名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 a. U «…への » 分割 , 区分 «into » ; «…の間での » 分配 , 分担 «between, among » (!具体例ではa ～/～s; その際しばしば修飾語を伴う ) ▸ the division of time into years and months 時間を年月に分割すること ▸ division of labor 分業 b. C «…の間の » 仕切り, 境界線 «between » .c. C (分割された )部分 .2 〖集合的に; ｟主に英 ｠では単複両扱い 〗a. (組織などの )部門 , 部局, 課 (｟略 ｠Div )▸ a branch division 支部 [局 ]b. 〘スポーツ 〙ディビジョン 〘leagueを構成するグループ 〙; (体重別 年齢別などの )クラス, 級 (｟略 ｠Div ).c. 〘軍 〙(陸軍の )師団 ; (海軍の )分艦隊 (｟略 ｠Div ).3 a. U 〖具体例ではa (…) ～/～s 〗 «…の間での /…内での » (意見の相違による )分裂 , 対立 «between , among /in , within » ▸ There was a deep division among Republicans .共和党員の間に深い溝があった ▸ internal divisions 内部分裂 b. C (社会 経済的な )格差 ▸ racial [class ] divisions 人種 [階級 ]間格差 4 U C 〘数 〙割り算, 除法 (↔multiplication ).5 C ｟英 ｠〘政 〙(議会での )採決 ▸ force a division 強行採決する 6 C 〘植 〙(分類上の )門 (→classification 2 ).7 C U 〘生物 〙分裂 .8 C 行政区, 管区 ; ｟英 ｠選挙区 .9 U 〘園芸 〙株分け .～́ l ò bby ｟英 ｠採決ロビー 〘議会で採決時に賛否両派が分かれて集まる 〙.～́ s ì gn 割り算記号 〘÷〙.

 

divisional

di vi sion al /dɪvɪ́ʒ (ə )n (ə )l /形容詞 比較なし 〖名詞 の前で 〗1 分割 [区分 ]上の, 部分 [門 ]の .2 〘軍 〙師団の .

 

divisive

di vi sive /dɪváɪsɪv /形容詞 ｟非難して ｠1 (人の間に )対立 [不和 ]を生む (ような ), 意見の不一致を起こす .2 区分をなす .～ness 名詞 U 対立, 不和 .

 

divisor

di vi sor /dɪváɪzə r /名詞 C 〘数 〙除数 (↔dividend ); 約数 ▸ the greatest common divisor 最大公約数