Divide vs Get - What's the difference?
divide | get |
To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
* Bible, 1 Kings iii. 25
To share (something) by dividing it.
* Spenser
(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= To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
* Bible, Mark iii. 24
* Prescott
(obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
* 1605 , , I. ii. 107:
(obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
* 1608 , , I. vi. 87:
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
To mark divisions on; to graduate.
(music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
A thing that divides.
An act of dividing.
A distancing between two people or things.
(geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
(label) To obtain; to acquire.
(label) To receive.
* , chapter=8
, title= To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To become.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
* , chapter=8
, title= (label) To cause to become; to bring about.
*
, title= (label) To fetch, bring, take.
* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
(label) To cause to do.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, chapter=5, title= To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(label) To cause to come or go or move.
(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1
(label) To begin (doing something).
(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
To be subjected to.
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(label) To be.
*
(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
To catch out, trick successfully.
To perplex, stump.
(label) To find as an answer.
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(label) To hear completely; catch.
(label) To .
To beget (of a father).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:
(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .
* (1625-1686)
Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff,
Offspring.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 755:
Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Something gained.
* 2008 , Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion (page 73)
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
As verbs the difference between divide and get
is that divide is to split or separate (something) into two or more parts while get is (label) to obtain; to acquire.As nouns the difference between divide and get
is that divide is a thing that divides while get is offspring or get can be (british|regional) a git or get can be (judaism) a jewish writ of divorce.divide
English
Verb
(divid)- a wall divides''' two houses; a stream '''divides the towns
- Divide the living child in two.
- true justice unto people to divide
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- If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
- Every family became now divided within itself.
- love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide .
- Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
- The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
- to divide a sextant
- (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 upAntonyms
* (split into two or more parts) combine, merge, unify, unite * (calculate times of multiplication) multiplySee also
* quotient * separateNoun
(en noun)- Stay on your side of the divide , please.
- The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
- There is a great divide between us.
- If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
get
English
(wikipedia get)Etymology 1
From (etyl) geten, from (etyl) 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.Verb
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- We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .
- His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
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- Get thee out from this land.
- Heto the strong town of Mega.
- Get him to say his prayers.
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Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
- to get rid of fools and scoundrels
- to get a mile
- Get thee behind me.
- Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl
- I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
- Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
- it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
Let's move to ..., The Guardian :
- Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
Usage notes
In dialects featuring the past participle gotten, the form "gotten" is not used universally as the past participle. Rather, inchoative and concessive uses (with meanings such as "obtain" or "become", or "am permitted to") use "gotten" as their past participle, whereas stative uses (with meanings like "have") use "got" as their past participlehttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html] and [http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm, thus enabling users of "gotten"-enabled dialects to make distinctions such as "I've gotten (received) my marks" vs. "I've got (possess) my marks"; a subtle distinction, to be sure, but a useful one. The first example probably means that the person has received them, and has them somewhere, whereas the second probably means that they have them in their hand right now.
Synonyms
* (obtain) acquire, come by, have * (receive) receive, be given * (fetch) bring, fetch, retrieve * (become) become * (cause to become) cause to be, cause to become, make * (cause to do) make * (arrive) arrive at, reach * come, go, travel * : go, move * (begin) begin, commence, start * : catch, take * : answer * be able to * dig, follow, make sense of, understand * : be * : catch, come down with * con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick * confuse, perplex, stump * (find as an answer) obtain * : catch, nab, nobble * (physically assault) assault, beat, beat up * catch, hear * (getter) getterAntonyms
* (obtain) loseDerived terms
* beget * forget * from the get-go * get about * get a charge out of * get across * get across to * get action * get after * get ahead of oneself * get a look in * get along * get along with * get around * get around to * get at * get away * get away from * get away with * get back * get back to * get behind * get better * get beyond * get by * get carried away * get done * get down * get going * get in * get in with * get into * get into trouble * get it * get it across one's head * get it into one's head * get it on * get it over with * get knotted * get lost * get moving * get off * get off easy * get off lightly * get off with * get on * get one over on * get one's end away * get one's rocks off * get on in years * get on to * get on with * get out * get out of * get over * get-rich-quick * get round * get round to * get some air * get someone's goat * get stuffed * get the goods on * get there * get the time to * get through * get through to * get to * get to be * get together * get under * get up * get up in * get up to * get well soon * get with the program, get with the programme * go-getter * go-getting * got * have gotNoun
(en noun)- ‘You were a high lord's get . Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
- I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.