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Divider   /dɪvˈaɪdər/   Listen
Divider

noun
1.
A taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics.  Synonym: splitter.
2.
A person who separates something into parts or groups.
3.
A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another).  Synonym: partition.
4.
A drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements.



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"Divider" Quotes from Famous Books



... afford—to let you make it harder by these damned traditions! I appeal to those two dead people! They did what you thought wrong, and your conscience judged and sentenced them. But who made you a judge and divider over them? Who asked you to be the dispenser for ...
— The Coryston Family • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... contains an illustration of "Hussey's Grain Cutter." The picture does not represent the model deposited in the Patent Office with his application, for it differs in many essentials from the drawing of the patent, which, of course, corresponded with the model there filed. It has neither divider nor outer wheel, and the construction of the platform differs from that of his regular machine. It is thought that the picture represents the small working model made at the Chenoweth factory, mentioned by the ...
— Obed Hussey - Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap • Various

... intrusion, obtrusion; insinuation. insertion &c. 300; dovetailing; embolism. intermediary, intermedium[obs3]; go between, bodkin|!, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf. partition, septum, diaphragm; midriff; dissepiment[obs3]; party wall, panel, room divider. halfway house. V. lie between, come between, get between; intervene, slide in, interpenetrate, permeate. put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in, worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... dividers, Fig. 207, consist of two legs turning on a joint, and having sharpened points. A convenient form is the wing divider which can be accurately adjusted by set-screws. A pencil can be substituted for the removable point. They are used for describing circles and arcs, for spacing, for measuring, for subdividing distances, and for scribing. In scribing a line parallel with a given outline, one leg ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes

... the band, these marks of authority were finally awarded to WABEZHAIS. Presents, including the last of my dry goods, were then distributed. Among them, was a small piece of fine scarlet cloth, but too little to make a present to each. The divider of the goods, which were given in camp, who was Indian, when he came to this tore it into small strips, so as to make a head-band or baldric for each. The utmost exactness of division was observed ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft



Words linked to "Divider" :   construction, splitter, someone, systematist, taxonomer, divide, screen, drafting instrument, lumper, subdivider, potential divider, wall, somebody, structure, mortal, taxonomist, person, soul, brattice, bulkhead, individual



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