different between dividing vs demarcation
dividing
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?d??
Adjective
dividing (not comparable)
- Serving to divide or separate.
- We installed a dividing wall in order to create two rooms out of one.
Derived terms
- dividing line
Translations
Verb
dividing
- present participle of divide
- Dividing seven dollars among three people is difficult!
Noun
dividing (plural dividings)
- An act of division.
- 1840, Albert Barnes, Notes: Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
- Hence the noun also means dividing, or portion as that which is divided — whether an inheritance, or whether the dividings of spoil after battle.
- 1840, Albert Barnes, Notes: Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
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demarcation
English
Alternative forms
- demarkation
Etymology
First recorded c.1752, from Spanish línea de demarcación and/or Portuguese linha de demarcação, the demarcation line laid down by the Pope on May 4, 1493, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal on a line 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Both derive from demarcar, from de- + marcar (“to mark”), from Italian marcare, from the Germanic root of march.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?m???ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
demarcation (countable and uncountable, plural demarcations)
- The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
- A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
- Any strictly defined separation.
- There is an alleged, in fact somewhat artificial demarcation in the type of work done by members of different trade unions.
Derived terms
- demarcate (back-formation)
- demarcated
Related terms
- demarc
- demarcation line
- demark
- marcation
Translations
Further reading
- demarcation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- demarcation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Tremadocian
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