Hack vs Divide - What's the difference?
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To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To cough noisily.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.
(transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
To work with on an intimately technical level.
(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
To strike in a frantic movement.
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A tool for chopping.
A hacking blow.
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
A dry cough.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pick.
(computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
(computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
(computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
(computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
(slang, military) Time check.
(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
A kick on the shins in football.
(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
A food-rack for cattle.
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
A grating in a mill race.
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
(obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack)
* I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
* Alexander Pope
(pejorative) An untalented writer.
* Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack .
* He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
(politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
(obsolete) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) A procuress.
(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
* J. H. Newman
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
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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* 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.
Hack is a related term of divide.
As nouns the difference between hack and divide
is that hack is hedge while divide is a thing that divides.As a verb divide is
to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.hack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking .
- Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
- When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked .
- He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
- I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
- I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
- I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
- He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
- There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- He went to the batter's box hacking .
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Derived terms
(terms derived from hack) * hack down * hack in * , hackingly, hacky * hack into * hack up * hackability * hackerSynonyms
* (gain unauthorized access) crack * frob * tweakNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack .
- He took a few hacks , but the pitcher finally struck him out.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hack")Synonyms
* (access attempt) crack * band-aid, contrivance, improvision, improvisation, kludge, makeshift, quick fix, patchEtymology 2
Variations of (hatch), (heck).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Abbreviation of , probably from place name HackneyNoun
(en noun)- On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
- Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack .
Synonyms
*(A saddle horse which is old and tired) nagCoordinate terms
*(worthless horse) bumVerb
(en verb)- (Hanmer)
- (Goldsmith)
- The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
Etymology 4
FromNoun
(en noun)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.