Divide vs. Unite — What's the Difference?

Separate or be separated into parts

To bring together so as to form a whole

Disagree or cause to disagree

To combine (people) in interest, attitude, or action

Find how many times (a number) contains another

To join (a couple) in marriage.

A difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension

To have or demonstrate in combination

To separate into parts, sections, groups, or branches

To become joined, formed, or combined into a unit

To form a border or barrier between

To join and act together in a common purpose or endeavor.

To sector into units of measurement; graduate

(transitive) To bring together as one.

To group according to kind; classify or assign

(reciprocal) To come together as one.

To cause to separate into opposing factions; disunite

A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland.

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

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies.

To give out or apportion among a number

Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach.

To subject (a number) to the process of division

To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together.

To be a divisor of

To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.

To use (a number) as a divisor

United; joint; as, unite consent.

To become separated into parts

Act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief

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

Become one;

To form into factions; take sides

Have or possess in combination;

To vote by dividing.

Be or become joined or united or linked;

(Mathematics) To perform the operation of division.

Join or combine;

(Biology) To undergo cell division.

A dividing point or line

See watershed.

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

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

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 be a divisor of.

(intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.

Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

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

(obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.

(obsolete) To have a share; to partake.

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.

To mark divisions on; to graduate.

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

A thing that divides.

An act of dividing.

A distancing between two people or things.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

To subject to arithmetical division.

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

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

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

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

To cause separation; to disunite.

To break friendship; to fall out.

To have a 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.

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.

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

A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

Separate into parts or portions;

Perform a division;

Act as a barrier between; stand between;

Come apart;

Make a division or separation

Force, take, or pull apart;