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rift
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?ft, IPA(key): /??ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
Noun
rift (plural rifts)
- A chasm or fissure.
- My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Derived terms
- rift valley
Translations
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
- (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
- to rift an oak
- to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt
- 1822, William Wordsworth, "A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)" 9-11, [1]
- The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, [2]
- he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
Etymology 3
Verb
rift (obsolete)
- past participle of rive
- The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
- Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
Anagrams
- FTIR, frit
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the verb rive
Noun
rift f or m (definite singular rifta or riften, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “rift” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb rive or riva
Noun
rift f (definite singular rifta, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rift?, *riftij?, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?reb?- (“to cover; arch over; vault”). Cognate with Old High German peinrefta (“legwear; leggings”), Old Norse ript, ripti (“a kind of cloth; linen jerkin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rift/
Noun
rift n (nominative plural rift)
- a veil; curtain; cloak
Related terms
- rifte
Descendants
- Middle English: rift
Romanian
Etymology
From French rift.
Noun
rift n (plural rifturi)
- rift
Declension
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular present rifts, present participle riftin, past riftit, past participle riftit)
- to belch, burp
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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)
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- Divide the living child in two.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (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).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- 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.
- (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
- (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
- 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.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (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)
- A thing that divides.
- Stay on your side of the divide, please.
- 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.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- There is a great divide between us.
- (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.
- (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
- third-person singular present indicative of dividere
Latin
Verb
d?vide
- second-person singular present active imperative of d?vid?
Portuguese
Verb
divide
- Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of dividir
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of dividir
Spanish
Verb
divide
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of dividir.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dividir.
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