different between divide vs crack

divide

English

Etymology

From Middle English dividen, from Latin d?v?dere (to divide). Displaced native Old English t?d?lan.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d??va?d/

Verb

divide (third-person singular simple present divides, present participle dividing, simple past and past participle divided)

  1. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
    • Divide the living child in two.
  2. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
  3. (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
  4. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
  5. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
  6. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
  7. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
    • If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
    • 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
      Every family became now divided within itself.
  8. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
  9. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
  10. To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, 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.
    • The emperors sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
  11. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
  12. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

Synonyms

  • (split into parts): cut up, disunite, partition, split, split up
  • (share by dividing): divvy up, divide up, share, share out
  • (separate into parts): separate, shear, split, split up

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from divide (verb and noun)

  • continental divide
  • Divide County
  • divvy
  • divide up, divvy up

Related terms

  • (act of dividing): division
  • (the sum being divided; the upper term in a fraction): dividend
  • (the number of parts in a division; the lower term in a fraction): divisor

Translations

See also

  • fraction, fraction slash, ?, fraction bar, vinculum (Australia)
  • ratio, ? (also improperly :)
  • (product of division): quotient
  • (extra amount left by uneven division): remainder
  • division sign, obelus, ÷
  • division slash, ? (also improperly /)
  • long division symbol, division bracket, )? or |?

Noun

divide (plural divides)

  1. A thing that divides.
    Stay on your side of the divide, please.
  2. An act of dividing.
    The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
    • 1975, Byte (issues 1-8, page 14)
      The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.
  3. A distancing between two people or things.
    There is a great divide between us.
  4. (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.
    The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.
    • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
      Carrying light packs they left camp at daylight the next morning. Trails there were none; but they followed the general course of a small creek, crossed a divide, and dipped down into a beautifully timbered valley watered by a swift, large creek of almost riverlike dimensions.
  5. (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

Translations

Anagrams

  • divied

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ide

Verb

divide

  1. third-person singular present indicative of dividere

Latin

Verb

d?vide

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of d?vid?

Portuguese

Verb

divide

  1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of dividir
  2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of dividir

Spanish

Verb

divide

  1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of dividir.
  2. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of dividir.

divide From the web:

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crack

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?æk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (to resound, crack), from Proto-West Germanic *krak?n, from Proto-Germanic *krak?n? (to crack, crackle, shriek), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?- (to resound, cry hoarsely).

Cognate with Scots crak (to crack), West Frisian kreakje (to crack), Dutch kraken (to crunch, creak, squeak), Low German kraken (to crack), German krachen (to crash, crack, creak), Lithuanian gìrgžd?ti (to creak, squeak), Old Armenian ?????? (karka??), Sanskrit ?????? (gárjati, to roar, hum).

Verb

crack (third-person singular simple present cracks, present participle cracking, simple past and past participle cracked)

  1. (intransitive) To form cracks.
    It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
  2. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
    When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
  3. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
    Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
  4. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
    When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
  5. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
    The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
  6. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
    His voice cracked with emotion.
  7. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
    His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
  8. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
    "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
  9. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
    The ball cracked the window.
  10. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
    You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
  11. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
    She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
  12. (transitive) To open slightly.
    Could you please crack the window?
  13. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)
    They managed to crack him on the third day.
  14. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)
    I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
  15. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
    It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
    They finally cracked the code.
  16. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
    to crack a whip
  17. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
    The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
  18. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
    Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
  19. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
    That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
  20. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
    I'd love to crack open a beer.
    Let's crack a tube and watch the game.
    • 1894, The Strand (volume 8, page 569)
      Old Bouvet was waiting in the passage when I entered, and he asked me whether we might not crack a bottle of wine together.
  21. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
  22. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
    • The credit [] of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • crazed (exhibiting fine-line cracks)
Translations
See also
  • hack

Noun

crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)

  1. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
  2. A narrow opening.
  3. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
  4. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
    1. (figuratively, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
  5. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
  6. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
  7. A sharp, resounding blow.
    • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:
      Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.
  8. (informal) An attempt at something.
  9. (vulgar, slang) Vagina.
  10. (informal) The space between the buttocks; the buttcrack.
  11. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
    • 2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, iUniverse, p. 214:
      Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack.
    • 2004, Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
      "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
    • 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
      By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
  12. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
    What's this crack about a possible merger.
  13. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
  14. (hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
  15. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
  16. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
  17. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
    • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 2
      And let us, Polydore, though now our voices / Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground, …
  18. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
  19. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
  20. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
  21. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
    • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 5, Scene 5
      But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd, I having ta'en the forfeit. …
  22. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
  23. (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
Usage notes
  • (Scots language, common in lowland Scotland and Ulster, conviviality): In the last few decades the word has been adopted into Gaelic; as there is no "k" in the Irish language the spelling craic has been devised.
Synonyms
  • (vulgar: space between the buttocks): bum crack (UK), arse crack (UK), ass crack (US)
  • (cocaine that is heat-altered at the moment of inhalation): crack cocaine
  • (A crazy or crack-brained person): crackpot
Coordinate terms
  • (phenomenon from underwater explosion): slick
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

1793 slang, of Unknown origin

Adjective

crack (not comparable)

  1. Highly trained and competent.
  2. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
Derived terms
  • crack train
  • crack troops
Related terms
  • crackerjack
Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From English crack.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kræk/, [?kræk]

Noun

crack

  1. crack (variety of cocaine)

Declension


French

Etymology

From English crack.

Noun

crack f (plural cracks)

  1. crack (expert person)

crack f (uncountable)

  1. crack (cocaine)

Portuguese

Etymology

From English crack.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

  1. crack (variety of cocaine)
  2. crack (computer program for bypassing license-related and other restrictions)

Further reading

  • “crack” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology 1

From English crack.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

  1. crack (variety of cocaine)
  2. champion, ace, pro, wizard, dude (outstanding person)

Etymology 2

From English crash influenced by crack and crac.

Noun

crack m (plural cracks)

  1. Alternative form of crac

Further reading

  • “crack” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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