Divide

1. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
2. To cause separation; to disunite.
3. 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.
4. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
5. To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
6. To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
7. To break friendship; to fall out.
8. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
9. 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.
10. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
14. To have a share; to partake.
15. To subject to arithmetical division.