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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between copy and divide

is that copy is (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease while divide is (obsolete) to have a share; to partake.

As nouns the difference between copy and divide

is that copy is the result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original while divide is a thing that divides.

As verbs the difference between copy and divide

is that copy is (label) to produce an object identical to a given object while divide is to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

copy

English

Noun

(copies)
  • The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
    • Please bring me the copies of those reports.
  • * Denham
    • I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
  • An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
    • That handbag is a copy . You can tell because the buckle is different.
  • (journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
  • (journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy
  • (marketing) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
  • (uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
    • Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
  • A school work pad.
    • Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy .
  • A printed edition of a book or magazine.
    • Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?
    The library has several copies of the Bible.
  • Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
  • (obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
    • His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
  • * Holder
    • Let him first learn to write, after a copy , all the letters.
  • (obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.
  • (obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

    • Synonyms

    * carbon copy * duplicate * facsimile * image * likeness * reduplication * replica * replication * reproduction * simulacrum * fake * forgery * phony * sham

    Antonyms

    * original

    Derived terms

    * advance copy * backup copy * deep copy * carbon copy * certified copy * clean copy * conformed copy * copy area * copy book * copy boy * copy cat/copycat * copy constructor * copy desk * copydom * copy editor * copy holder * copy key * copy menu * copy number * copy protection * copy room * copy ruler * copy shop * copy test * copy typist * copywriter * courtesy copy * duplicate copy * fair copy * hard copy * image copy * master copy * office copy * photocopy * presentation copy * promotional copy * reading copy * review copy * scaled copy * shallow copy * soft copy * top copy * xerox copy

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (label) To produce an object identical to a given object.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
  • To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
  • (label) To imitate.
  • * (Dugald Stewart) (1753–1828)
    • We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.
  • To receive a transmission successfully.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * copyable * copy and paste * copy down * copy-edit * copy out * deep-copy

    Related terms

    * copious * photocopy * cc * cop * copydesk * copier * copywrite

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    divide

    English

    Verb

    (divid)
  • To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
    • a wall divides''' two houses; a stream '''divides the towns
  • * Bible, 1 Kings iii. 25
    • Divide the living child in two.
  • To share (something) by dividing it.
  • * Spenser
    • true justice unto people to divide
  • (arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
  • (arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
  • To separate into two or more parts.
  • (biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.}}
  • To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  • * Bible, Mark iii. 24
    • If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
  • * Prescott
    • Every family became now divided within itself.
  • (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
  • * 1605 , , I. ii. 107:
    • love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide .
  • (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
  • * 1608 , , I. vi. 87:
    • Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
  • 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.
  • * Gibbon
    • The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
  • To mark divisions on; to graduate.
    • to divide a sextant
  • (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (split into two or more parts) cut up, disunite, partition, split, split up * (share by dividing) divvy up, divide up, share, share out * (separate into two or more parts) separate, shear, split, split up

    Antonyms

    * (split into two or more parts) combine, merge, unify, unite * (calculate times of multiplication) multiply

    Related terms

    * dividend * division * divisor *

    See also

    * quotient * separate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that divides.
    • Stay on your side of the divide , please.
  • An act of dividing.
    • The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
  • A distancing between two people or things.
    • There is a great divide between us.
  • (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
    • If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
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