different between divide vs sunder

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 (tú) affirmative imperative form of dividir.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder (“special, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).

Adjective

sunder (comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.

Derived terms

• sunderling
• sunderly

Etymology 2

From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundr?n? (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.

Verb

sunder (third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)

1. (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
2. (intransitive) To part, separate.
   • 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9

     Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —

     Such are we now.
3. (Britain, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

Related terms

• sundry

Translations

Noun

sunder (plural sunders)

1. a separation into parts; a division or severance
   • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4

     He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.

     I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder

     And went with half my life about my ways.

Derived terms

• sundrous

See also

• sunder tree

Anagrams

• Durens, Dusner, drusen, nursed

Old English

Alternative forms

• sundor
• synder

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sun.der/

Adverb

sunder

1. apart, separate, private, aloof, by one's self

Synonyms

• ?ed?ledl??e

Derived terms

• onsundrum (“singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder”)
• sunderanweald m (“monarchy”)
• sunderfolgoþ m (“private office”)
• sunderfr?od?m, sunderfr?ols m (“privilege”)
• sunderl?pes (“separately”)
• sunderm?lum (“separately, singly”)
• sunderm?d f (“private meadow”)
• sunderst?w f (“special place”)

Related terms

• ?sundran, ?sundrian (“to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder”)
• ?syndrung f (“division”)
• sundrian (“to separate, sunder”)

See also

• sundor
• synder

References

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sunder”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sundor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.