dividing

Phonetic Respelling: [ dih-vahyd ]

Definition:

v. 1 to separate into parts; 2 to share in equal parts; 3 to separate a number into equal sets of another number by using division; ; 4 separate

Sentence:

The teacher was dividing the class into two groups.

More example sentences:

The teacher was dividing the class into two groups.

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What is the name of the dividing layer of water between the upper layers of warm water in the ocean and the deeper, cool water?

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About 4,000 years ago, who began dividing the daytime and nighttime into twelve parts?

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The symmetries' dividing points were all the same.

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How did Charles feel about the way his father was dividing his estate?

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Synonyms:

part; partition; portion; section; separate; split

Antonyms:

join; unify; unite

Dividing rhymes:

• Two Syllable Rhymes
  • biding
  • chiding
  • gliding
  • guiding
  • hiding
  • riding
  • siding
  • sliding
  • striding
  • tiding
  • widing
• Three Syllable Rhymes
  • abiding
  • colliding
  • confiding
  • deciding
  • deriding
  • presiding
  • providing
  • residing
  • subsiding
• Four Syllable Rhymes
  • coinciding