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Definition of divide : 1. A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
2. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
3. To break friendship; to fall out.
4. To cause separation; to disunite.
5. 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.
6. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
7. To have a share; to partake.
8. 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.
9. To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
10. To part asunder ( a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
11. To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
12. To separate into species; - said of a genus or generic term.
13. 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.
14. To subject to arithmetical division.
15. 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.

Synonyms:

secernate, depart, ramify, severalise, furcate, differentiate, tell apart, tell, drainage area, mete out, chop, basin, watershed, section, set forth, award, classify, disentangle, turning point, single out, secern, landmark, assort, fraction, grant, diverge, undo, split off, cut up, splinter, arrange, destine, drainage basin, appoint, split up, loose, river basin, severalize, set apart, hew, slash, class, catchment basin, sort, set out, break open, carve, parcel out, come apart, dole out, catchment area, set off, dissolve, dole, divvy, unite, isolate, start out, assemble, rive, portion out, dissever, quarter, cut off, collect, sort out, dislocate, burst, count off, start, water parting, distinguish, combine, cross, discriminate, pull away, unravel, fall apart, unchain, select, unbind, take off, disjoint, graduate, break down, carve up, intersect, break up, demarcate

fissure, branch, fork, slit, tear, bifurcate

systematize, gauge, calculate, reckon, quantize, rank, plan, compute, count, think, presume, sum, guess, conclude, suppose, value, consider, total, weigh, scheme, infer, schedule, assess, tally, determine, deduce, evaluate, surmise, plot, approximate, program, score, study, rationalize, rate, judge, multiply, measure, account, figure, add, enumerate, quantify, triangulate, appraise, estimate

dismember, compartmentalize, piece, subdivide, zone, chunk

disassemble, disaffiliate, slice, rip, remove, axe, dissect, amputate, disarticulate, disintegrate, unglue, pare, incise, bisect, unhinge, scissor, unfix, cut

deal, assign, ration, parcel, mete, allot, distribute, allocate, budget, dispense, set, give, earmark, allow, share, portion, segment, apportion

dismantle, break, excise, rupture, rend, partition, disassociate, part, segregate, detach, cleave, dissociate, split, disjoin, sunder, halve, sever, uncouple, disconnect, disengage, fragment, insulate

estrange, disunite, push away, separate, distance, divorce, disaffect, alienate

Usage examples:

• Who can separate the waters which are once united, or divide the hearts which have met and mingled into one? - "Falkland, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
• That done, I would divide the command, sending one portion across the river to the right, five miles below the Indians, and another one to bear left toward the village. - "An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)", Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody).
• You'll have to divide the claim between you. - "Smoke Bellew", Jack London.