Meaning of DIVIDER
| Pronunciation: | | di'vIdur
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- [n] a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- [n] a person who separates something into parts or groups
- [n] a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
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| | Synonyms: | | partition, splitter |
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| | Antonyms: | | lumper | | |
| | See Also: | | bulkhead, construction, human, individual, mortal, person, screen, somebody, someone, soul, structure, subdivider, systematist, taxonomer, taxonomist, wall | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Di*vid"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates
anything into parts.
2. One who deals out to each his share.
Who made me a judge or a divider over you? --Luke
xii. 14.
3. One who, or that which, causes division.
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider.
--Milton.
Money, the great divider of the world. --Swift.
4. pl. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles,
etc., compasses. See {Compasses}.
Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument
as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to
the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
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