Divide vs Gulf - What's the difference?
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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.
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, 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.
A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
* Milton
* Bible, Luke xvi. 26
(obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.
* 1606 , , IV. i. 23:
That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
* Tennyson
(geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico or Persian Gulf.
(mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
A difference, especially a large difference, between groups
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In obsolete terms the difference between divide and gulf
is that divide is to have a share; to partake while gulf is that which swallows; the gullet.In geography terms the difference between divide and gulf
is that divide is a large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land while gulf is a portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico or Persian Gulf.As nouns the difference between divide and gulf
is that divide is a thing that divides while gulf is a hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.As a verb divide
is to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.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.
gulf
English
(wikipedia gulf)Alternative forms
* gulph (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He then surveyed / Hell and the gulf between.
- Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
- Witch's mummy, maw and gulf / Of the ravined salt sea shark,
- a gulf of ruin, swallowing gold
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