Divide

Definition

divide /dÇ'vaÇd/ v ၁။ ~ (sth) (up) (into sth) ခြဲသည္။ စိတ္ပိုင္း သည္။ Cells multiply by dividing. ❍ divide a novel (up) into chapters ❍ The children were divided (up) into small groups. ၂။ ~ sth (out/ up) (between/ among sb) ခြဲေဝေပးသည္။ divide (out/ up) the money/ food/ reward ❍ We divided the work between us. ၃။ ~ sth (between A and B) အခ်ိန္ကို ခြဲသံုးသည္၊ မွ်သံုးသည္။ He divides his energies between politics and business. ၄။ ~ A from B (က) ကြဲေစသည္။ ခြဲသည္။ divide a mother from her baby. (ခ) ပိုင္းျခားသည္။ The English Channel divides England from France. ၅။ သေဘာကြဲေစသည္။ This issue has divided the government. ❍ The government is divided (on this issue). ❍ The article claims we are living in a divided society. ၆။ ( mathematics ) (က) ~ sth by sth စားသည္။ 30 divided by 6 is 5. (ခ) ~ into sth အလီဝင္သည္။ 5 divides into 30, 6 times. ၇။ (ပါလီမန္ တြင္) မဲခြဲဆံုးျဖတ္ရန္ အဖြဲ႕(ႏွစ္ဖြဲ႕)ခြဲသည္။ After a long debate the House divided. n ၁။ ~ (between A and B) ခြဲျခားမႈ။ the North/ South divide in Britain ❍ the divide between Catholics and Protestants. ၂။ ( esp US ) ေရေဝကုန္းတန္း။ the Continental/ Great Divide (ie that formed by the Rocky Mountains). ❏ divided highway n ( US ) = Dual Carriageway ❏ divider n ပိုင္းကန္႔ေသာအရာ။ အကန္႔အကာ။ a room divider (ie a screen, etc that divides a room into two parts) Compare DIVIDERS ❏ dividing line n ပိုင္းျခားေသာစည္း။ နယ္သတ္မ်ဥ္း။ the dividing line between opinion and fact.

Examples

1. Divide the pastry and roll out one part.
2. [divide something into pairs/groups/parts etc] : Divide the class into three groups.
3. [divide into] : The film divides into two distinct halves.
4. Work out how you would like to divide the money.
5. [divide something between/among someone] : After his death his property was divided among his children.
6. The wall that divides the playground and the sports field
7. [divide something from something] : The railway divides their family’s land from the plains below.
8. [divide something by something] : Divide 9 by 3.
9. 10 divided by 2 is 5.
10. [divide by] : Add 50 to your original number
11. then divide by six.
12. A subject that divided the nation
13. The ruling class was divided by internal conflicts.
14. [divide along party/religious/ethnic etc lines] : MPs look certain to divide along party lines.
15. When the road divides
16. take the left-hand route.