DIVIDING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DIVIDING?

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Associations of "Dividing" (30 Words)

allocate	Distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose. In past years we didn t allocate enough funds to infrastructure maintenance.
allot	Allow to have. I was allotted a little room in the servants block.
apportion	Give out as one’s portion or share. Voting power will be apportioned according to contribution.
bifurcate	Divided into two branches or forks. A bifurcate tree.
cleavage	The act of cleaving or splitting. There was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members.
dichotomy	Being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses. A rigid dichotomy between science and mysticism.
dispense	(of a machine or container) supply or release (a product or cash. The machines dispense a range of drinks.
distribute	Distribute or disperse widely. The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia.
divided	Having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions. Opinions are divided.
division	A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. A growing sense of division between north and south.
fraction	A component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process. The dominant classes or fractions in capitalist societies.
fracture	Fracture a bone of. Obsidian shows a conchoidal fracture.
fragmentation	The scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes. The fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups.
moiety	One of two basic subdivisions of a tribe. The enzyme removes the sulphate moiety.
part	Separate the hair of the head on either side of the parting with a comb. The business partners broke over a tax question.
partition	Divide a room into smaller rooms or areas by erecting partitions. Partition chromatography.
portion	The part or share of an estate given or descending by law to an heir. I read a portion of the manuscript.
rend	Cause great emotional pain to. You tell me this in order to make me able to betray you without rending my heart.
rive	Split or crack (wood or stone. The party was riven by disagreements over Europe.
schism	Division of a group into opposing factions. The persistence of this group could produce schism within society.
secant	A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.
sectarian	Denoting or concerning a sect or sects. Most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect.
section	Divide into sections. Metal sections were used below ground.
segmentation	The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart. Segmentation of myocardial cells.
segregation	The act of segregating or sequestering. The segregation of pupils with learning difficulties.
separated	Separated at the joint. The separated spacecraft will return to their home bases.
separation	The cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order. Fragile items require separation and cushioning.
split	A single thickness of split hide. They announced a two for one split of the common stock.
sunder	Break apart or in two, using violence. A universe sundered ages ago in a divine war.