dividable | (adjective) can be divided usually without leaving a remainder | - |
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divide | (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: water parting, watershed |
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(noun) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) | - |
(verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
(verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
(verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
(verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
(verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
divided | (adjective) separated into parts or pieces | - |
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(adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out |
(adjective) having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions | Synonyms: dual-lane |
dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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(noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
(noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
(noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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(adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
(adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
(noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
(verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
(verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
divinely | (adverb) by divine means | - |
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diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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(noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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(noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
(noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
(noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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divisible | (adjective) capable of being or liable to be divided or separated | - |
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division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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(noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
(noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
(noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
(noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
(noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
(noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
(noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
(noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
(noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
(noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
(noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
divisional | (adjective) of or relating to a military division | - |
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(adjective) serving to divide or marking a division | - |
(adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional |
divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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divisor | (noun) the number by which a dividend is divided | - |
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(noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: factor |