different between divider vs diviner

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

English

Alternative forms

• devynour, divinour (obsolete, rare); divinor (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English divinour, from Latin d?v?n?tor (“diviner; fortune-teller; soothsayer”), from d?v?n?re (“to foresee, to foretell”). Doublet of divinator. Equivalent to divine +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??va?n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?n?(r)
• Rhymes: -a?n?(?)

Noun

diviner (plural diviners)

1. One who foretells the future.
2. One who divines or conjectures.
3. One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.

Synonyms

• (one who foretells the future): foreteller, fortune-teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer
• (one who searches for underground water): water diviner, dowser

Derived terms

• diviner's sage
• water diviner

Related terms

• see divine

Translations

Adjective

diviner

1. comparative form of divine: more divine

Anagrams

• Vidrine, drive in, drive-in

Latin

Verb

d?v?ner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?v?n?

Middle French

Etymology

Latin d?v?n?.

Verb

diviner

1. to divine

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Related terms

• divination