What does divider mean?

Definitions for divider
dɪˈvaɪ dərdi·vider

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. splitter, dividernoun

    a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics

  2. dividernoun

    a person who separates something into parts or groups

  3. partition, dividernoun

    a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

  4. dividernoun

    a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements

Wiktionary

  1. dividernoun

    An object that separates.

  2. dividernoun

    A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.

  3. dividernoun

    The median of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.

  4. dividernoun

    A person who separates or classifies.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Dividernoun

    Etymology: from divide.

    According as the body moved, the divider did more and more enter into the divided body; so it joined itself to some new parts of the medium, or divided body, and did in like manner forsake others. Kenelm Digby, on the Soul.

    Who made me a judge or divider over you? Lu. xii. 14.

    Money, the great divider of the world, hath, by a strange revolution, been the great uniter of a divided people. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. divider

    A divider is a tool or piece of equipment, often used in mathematics or sciences, which is used to measure or mark off distances, typically consisting of two hinged legs resembling a compass. Alternatively, in a more general context, a divider can refer to something that separates or divides a physical or abstract space, such as a screen or wall in a room or boundaries in a conceptual framework.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dividernoun

    one who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts

  2. Dividernoun

    one who deals out to each his share

  3. Dividernoun

    one who, or that which, causes division

  4. Dividernoun

    an instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of divider in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of divider in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of divider in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    Race relations problems are almost at an all-time worst, and President Obama -- I really thought he'd be a unifier. But I thought one thing he'd be is a unifier certainly between African-American and white, and I will tell you that's turned out not to be so. He has not been a unifier. He's been a divider.

  2. Antone Melton-Meaux:

    Congresswoman Omar is a divider, i'm not interested in celebrity; I'm interested in service.

  3. Laurie Adams:

    Beto ORourke is a uniter, Beto ORourke isn't a divider, whenever you hear Beto ORourke speak, Beto ORourke talks about uniting the country.

  4. Tim Bryce:

    They are always going to accuse him of being a racist, a xenophobe, divider-in-chief - and so on and so forth, everything is Trump's fault.

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