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di·vid·ed  (d-vdd)
adj.
1. Separated into parts or pieces.
2. Being in a state of disagreement or disunity: a divided nation.
3. Moved by conflicting interests, emotions, or activities: divided loyalties.
4. Separated by distance: a child divided from her familiar surroundings.
5. Having the lanes for opposing traffic separated: divided highways.
6. Botany Having indentations extending to the midrib or base and forming distinct lobes: divided leaves.
di·vided·ly adv.
di·vided·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.divided - separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided"
distributive - serving to distribute or allot or disperse
segregated, unintegrated - separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood"
separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
united - characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity; "presented a united front"
2.divided - having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions; "a divided highway"
dual-lane
multilane - (of roads and highways) having two or more lanes for traffic
3.divided - distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
divided up, shared out, shared
distributed - spread out or scattered about or divided up
Translations
Spanish divided [dɪˈvaɪdɪd] adj [country, couple] → dividido, separado; [opinions] → en desacuerdo
French divided [dɪˈvaɪdɪd] adj (fig) [country, couple] → désuni(e); [opinions] → partagé(e)
German divided [dɪˈvaɪdɪd] divide adj → geteilt;
to be divided about or over sth → geteilter Meinung über etw acc sein
Italian divided [dɪˈvaɪdɪd] adj [country] → diviso/a; [opinions] → discordi
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We now come to the quantitative parts the separate parts into which Tragedy is divided namely, Prologue, Episode, Exode, Choric song; this last being divided into Parode and Stasimon.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
"What we have divided we have divided," he seems to say in his gruff voice, this ruler without guile, who hurls as if in sport enormous masses of cloud across the sky, and flings the great waves of the Atlantic clear across from the shores of the New World upon the hoary headlands of Old Europe, which harbours more kings and rulers upon its seamed and furrowed body than all the oceans of the world together.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
He then addressed them in these words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.
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