Devide vs Broke - What's the difference?

devide | broke |

As verbs the difference between devide and broke

is that devide is obsolete form of lang=en while broke is simple past of break.

As an adjective broke is

lacking money; bankrupt.

As a noun broke is

paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

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. }}

broke

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(informal) Lacking money; bankrupt

(informal) Broken.

Synonyms

* boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (qualifier, UK slang') * See also

Noun

(en noun)

(papermaking) Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.

*1880 , James Dunbar, The Practical Papermaker: A Complete Guide to the Manufacture of Paper , page 12:

*:If the broke accumulates, a larger proportion can be used in making coloured papers, otherwise the above quantity is sufiicient.

*1914 , The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 62 , page 204:

*:Presumably, most of the brokes and waste were used up in this manner, and during the manufacture of the coarse stuff little or no attention was paid to either cleanliness or colour.

*2014 September 25, Judge Diane Wood, NCR Corp. v. George A. Whiting Paper Co. :

*:These mills purchase broke from other paper mills through middlemen and use it to make paper.

Verb

(head)

(break)

(archaic, or, poetic)

* 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama , season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company

Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.

# (nautical) Demoted, deprived of a commission.

He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

Verb

(brok)

To broker; to transact business for another.

(Brome)

(obsolete) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

* Fanshawe

We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said.

* Shakespeare

And brokes with all that can in such a suit / Corrupt the tender honour of a maid.

Statistics

* English irregular simple past forms