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Bifurcate vs Devide - What's the difference?

bifurcate | devide |

As verbs the difference between bifurcate and devide

is that bifurcate is to divide or fork into two channels or branches while devide is obsolete form of lang=en.

As an adjective bifurcate

is divided or forked into two; bifurcated.

bifurcate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
  • Having bifurcations.

    • Verb

    (bifurcat)
  • To divide or fork into two channels or branches.

    • Synonyms

    * branch, fork

    Related terms

    * bifurcation * trifurcate * quadfurcated

    devide

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Thei devide all their inhabiters into divers partes: and every parte thei name of the kinde of those weapons, that thei use in the warre. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=XXXVII His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325 That none but death for ever can devide ; His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit, The housling fire[*] did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide; At which the bushy Teade a groome did light, 330 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evill fates, but burnen ever bright. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1630, author=William Pemble, title=A Briefe Introduction to Geography, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres. }}