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It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.
Steve Crocker

Meaning of "dividing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIVIDING

dividing  [dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIVIDING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dividing is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DIVIDING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dividing in the English dictionary

The definition of dividing in the dictionary is serving to divide.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIVIDING


abiding
əˈbaɪdɪŋ
backsliding
ˈbækˌslaɪdɪŋ
confiding
kənˈfaɪdɪŋ
deciding
dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ
gliding
ˈɡlaɪdɪŋ
guiding
ˈɡaɪdɪŋ
hang-gliding
ˈhæŋɡlaɪdɪŋ
hiding
ˈhaɪdɪŋ
joyriding
ˈdʒɔɪˌraɪdɪŋ
niding
ˈnaɪdɪŋ
nitriding
ˈnaɪtraɪdɪŋ
nondividing
ˌnɒndɪˈvaɪdɪŋ
overriding
ˌəʊvəˈraɪdɪŋ
paragliding
ˈpærəˌɡlaɪdɪŋ
providing
prəˈvaɪdɪŋ
riding
ˈraɪdɪŋ
siding
ˈsaɪdɪŋ
sliding
ˈslaɪdɪŋ
surfriding
ˈsɜːfˌraɪdɪŋ
unabiding
ˌʌnəˈbaɪdɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIVIDING

dividable
dividant
divide
divided
divided highway
divided skirt
dividedly
dividedness
dividend
dividend cover
dividend yield
dividendless
divider
dividers
dividing line
dividual
dividuous
divinable
divination
divinator

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIVIDING

according
beam riding
biding
braiding
chiding
goods siding
horse riding
horseback riding
invaliding
law-abiding
manriding
metalliding
nightriding
North Riding
outriding
raiding
ram raiding
trick riding
upbraiding
voiding
West Riding

Synonyms and antonyms of dividing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DIVIDING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dividing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dividing

Translation of «dividing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIVIDING

Find out the translation of dividing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dividing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dividing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

分割
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

divisoria
570 millions of speakers

English

dividing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विभाजन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفاصل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разделительная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

divisória
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিভাজক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

séparation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Membahagikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trenn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

分割する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

분할
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbagi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரிக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विभाजित करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bölen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

di demarcazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podziału
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розділова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de demarcație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαχωριστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verdeel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skilje
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skillelinje
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dividing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIVIDING»

The term «dividing» is very widely used and occupies the 18.071 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIVIDING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dividing

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10 QUOTES WITH «DIVIDING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dividing.
1
Russell Banks
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.
2
Orlando Aloysius Battista
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
3
Ulrich Beck
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
4
Richard Branson
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
5
H. Rap Brown
You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
6
Nick Cave
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.
7
Nicolas Chamfort
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
8
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
9
John Cleese
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
10
Steve Crocker
It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIVIDING»

Discover the use of dividing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dividing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody
Full of interesting findings with far-reaching implications, this book will be invaluable to the lawyers, judges, social workers, and parents who, more and more often, must make wise and informed decisions concerning the welfare and care of ...
Eleanor E. Maccoby, 1992
2
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
Dividing the Spoils resurrects the fascinating story of this period - both the warfare and theworld-changing cultural developments that were taking place at the same time.
Robin Waterfield, 2012
3
Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America
This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen rights, and ...
Daniel J. Tichenor, 2009
4
Rightly Dividing the Word
The Author has made it the work of his ministry to preach the 'Fundamental Doctrines.' To this end he has aimed to express them in the simplest and clearest manner possible."_From the Foreword.
Clarence Larkin, 2007
5
Dividing and Uniting Germany
Provides an essential and original introduction to the challenges facing Germany in its recent past and the problems still confronting it today.
Bill Niven, J. K. A. Thomaneck, 2002
6
Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women, and Household Work in ...
With its cross-national perspective, this pioneering volume speaks not only to sociologists concerned with gender and family, but also to those interested in scholarship on states, public policy, culture, and social inequality.
Judith Treas, Sonja Drobnic, 2010
7
The Dividing of Christendom
This is a fitting subject for Christopher Dawson, whose genius was to present the broad sweep of history with verve, clarity, insight and authority.
Christopher Dawson, 2009
8
Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private ...
In this unprecedented study, Edward T. Price covers most areas of the United States in which the initial division of land was controlled by colonial governments—the original thirteen colonies, and Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, West Virginia, ...
Edward T. Price, 1995
9
House Dividing: How to Create Multiple Homes from a Single ...
The children have reached adulthood only to discover they can't afford to buy their first home, and are staying in the parental home for longer.For the more ambitious, dividing a larger house into apartments or maisonettes, not only creates ...
Paul Hymers, 2007
10
Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class, and Ideology in the 1930s
Caesar (English, U. of New South Wales) argues against the centrality of Auden in the milieu of British poets during the 1930s and describes a heterogeneity of ideology, style, class origin, and life experience.
Adrian Caesar, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIVIDING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dividing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Stop dividing society
Ontario needs to resolve the new sex ed curriculum controversy that is dividing society. Ontario has not taken any initiative to resolve the ... «Windsor Star, Jul 15»
2
Dividing 1 by This Big Number Gives You the Fibonacci Sequence …
After dividing 1 by 999-quattuordecillion (a number that's 48 integers long), you get the Fibonacci sequence presented in neat, 24-digit strings. «io9, Jul 15»
3
Michael Gerson: Trump and the GOP's dividing lines
Attempting to analyze political statements by Donald Trump is often a high dive into a shallow pool. But a number of conservative commentators ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
4
The Real Jesus Wants to Know Where You Stand
Truth has a way of dividing. It will not abide competitors. That Jesus is Lord, is true. Anything different from this is not just less meaningful or ... «National Catholic Register, Jul 15»
5
Dividing and replanting irises
Hidden Valley Lake >> At the July 13 meeting of the Hidden Valley Lake (HVL) Garden Club, Sherrye Schwarz will give a presentation on irises ... «Record Bee, Jul 15»
6
Trumped: How The Donald's Comments Are Dividing the 2016 GOP …
First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. «NBCNews.com, Jul 15»
7
Add more plants to your garden by dividing
Master Gardener Kathi Grippy of Attleboro shows how to divide plants to make additional plants. Here she's cutting a bearded iris. «The Sun Chronicle, Jul 15»
8
Galien Schools move closer to dividing district
Its superintendent says dividing at Gardner Road is fair. "Just to say there was no favoritism or no gerrymandering of lines to favor one property ... «Fox 28, Jul 15»
9
CVDF aimed at dividing Jammu, implementing Dixon Plan: Bhim …
CVDF aimed at dividing Jammu, implementing Dixon Plan: Bhim Singh. He asked the nationalist political thinkers and the politicians to try to ... «GreaterKashmir.com, Jul 15»
10
What the answer if I asked Siri “iphone” to dividing zero to zero ?!
On the last days ago a strange result rather than the results of vocal assistance provided by Siri Siri service on iOS devices, in the case that the ... «Standard Republic, Jul 15»

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