Divide vs. Part — What's the Difference?

Separate or be separated into parts

A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.

Disagree or cause to disagree

Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided

Find how many times (a number) contains another

A division of a book or artistic work such as a film

A difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension

An organ, member, or other division of an organism

To separate into parts, sections, groups, or branches

Parts The external genitals.

To form a border or barrier between

A component that can be separated from or attached to a system; a detachable piece

To sector into units of measurement; graduate

Often parts A region, area, land, or territory

To group according to kind; classify or assign

A role

To cause to separate into opposing factions; disunite

One's responsibility, duty, or obligation; share

To cause (members of a parliament) to vote by separating into groups, as pro and con.

Parts Abilities or talents

To give out or apportion among a number

The music or score for a particular instrument, as in an orchestra.

To subject (a number) to the process of division

One of the melodic divisions or voices of a contrapuntal composition.

To be a divisor of

The line where the hair on the head is parted.

To use (a number) as a divisor

To cause to move apart; put apart

To become separated into parts

To divide into two or more parts; split

To branch out, as a river or a blood vessel.

To break up the relationship or association of

To form into factions; take sides

To comb (hair, for example) away from a dividing line, as on the scalp.

To vote by dividing.

To go away from; depart from

(Mathematics) To perform the operation of division.

(Archaic) To divide into shares or portions.

(Biology) To undergo cell division.

To be divided or separated

A dividing point or line

To move apart

See watershed.

To leave one another; take leave

(transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

To go away from another; depart

(transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.

(Archaic) To die.

To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).

To separate or divide into ways going in different directions

To be a divisor of.

To disagree or stop associating because of a disagreement

(intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.

Partially; in part

Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

Not full or complete; partial

To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

A portion; a component.

(obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.

A fraction of a whole.

(obsolete) To have a share; to partake.

A distinct element of something larger.

To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.

A group inside a larger group.

To mark divisions on; to graduate.

Share, especially of a profit.

(music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

A thing that divides.

3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

An act of dividing.

A section of a document.

A distancing between two people or things.

A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

(geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

A factor.

(hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

(US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

Duty; responsibility.

To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.

Position or role (especially in a play).

To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.

(music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

To subject to arithmetical division.

(Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

To separate into species; - said of a genus or generic term.

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

(intransitive) To leave the company of.

To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

To cut hair with a parting; shed.

To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.

(transitive) To divide in two.

To cause separation; to disunite.

(intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.

To break friendship; to fall out.

To divide up; to share.

To have a share; to partake.

(obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.

To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.

To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide.

(obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

A serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

To leave; to quit.

Separate into parts or portions;

To leave (an IRC channel).

Perform a division;

Fractional; partial.

Act as a barrier between; stand between;

Partly; partially; fractionally.

Come apart;

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.

Make a division or separation

An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.

Force, take, or pull apart;

A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.

That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; - usually in the plural with a collective sense.

One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.

Quarter; region; district; - usually in the plural.

A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life; as, to play the part of Macbeth. See To act a part, under Act.

Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; - the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.

One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.

To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.

To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.

To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.

To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.

To leave; to quit.

To separate (a collection of objects) into smaller collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle.

To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; - often with from.

To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; - followed by with or from; as, to part with one's money.

To have a part or share; to partake.

Partly; in a measure.

Something determined in relation to something that includes it;

The extended spatial location of something;

So far as concerns the actor specified;

Something less than the whole of a human artifact;

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group;

A portion of a natural object;

An actor's portrayal of someone in a play;

Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;

Any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor;

The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music;

A line where the hair is parted;

Go one's own away; move apart;

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;

Leave;

Come apart;

Force, take, or pull apart;

In part; in some degree; not wholly;