Gap vs Divide - What's the difference?
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An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
A vacant space or time.
A hiatus.
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(label) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
(label) The regions between the outfielders.
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
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(label) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(label) To make an opening in; to breach.
(label) To check the size of a gap.
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
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(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.
In transitive terms the difference between gap and divide
is that gap is to check the size of a gap while divide is to share (something) by dividing it.gap
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Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
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- Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap , and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, passage=That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.}}
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page=70 , passage=When Charles Bessey suddenly died in 1916 at age seventy, he left a gap that was impossible to fill; and though his protégé. R. J. Pool, was a man of intelligence and character, he did not have Bessey’s authority.}}
Synonyms
* (opening made by breaking or parting) break, hole, rip, split, tear, rift, chasm, fissure * (opening allowing passage or entrance) break, clearing, hole, opening * (opening that implies a breach or defect) space * (vacant space or time) window * (hiatus) hiatus * (mountain pass) col, neck, pass * (in baseball)Derived terms
* gap-toothed * gap yearVerb
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* * * ----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
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.}}
- 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
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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.
