different between divided vs divider

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From divide.

Verb

divided

1. simple past tense and past participle of divide

Etymology 2

From Middle English divided, devided, devidid, past participle of Middle English dividen (“to divide”), equivalent to divide +? -ed.

Adjective

divided (comparative more divided, superlative most divided)

1. separated or split into pieces
2. having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
3. disunited
4. (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median

Antonyms

• undivided
• combined
• unified

Translations

Anagrams

• viddied

English

Etymology

divide +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??va?d?(?)/

Noun

divider (plural dividers)

1. One who or that which divides or separates.
   • 1891, George MacDonald, A Rough Shaking (page 33)

     I was greatly his inferior, but love is a quick divider of shares: he that gathers much has nothing over, and he that gathers little has no lack.

   1. A physical object for dividing up a space.
   2. A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
2. A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
3. (Britain, US) The median (US) or central reservation (Britain) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

divider

1. imperative of dividere