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Dividing   /dɪvˈaɪdɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Dividing  adj.  That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels.
Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach.). See under Sinker.






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"Dividing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Marlin, "because as a ranger it will be necessary for you often to be at headquarters. I have arranged for you to live with Ranger Lumley. His district adjoins yours, and his house, right in the forest, is near the dividing line. So it will be about as convenient for you as it is for him. He is to be at the office to meet us and look after you. We'll pick him up and go on to ...
— The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss

... Wing would be inactivated on or before 30 June, and all blacks would be removed from Lockbourne. The commander of the Continental Air Command would create a board of Lockbourne officers to screen those assigned to the all-black base, dividing them into three groups. The skilled and qualified officers and airmen would be reassigned worldwide to white units "just like any other officers or airmen of similar skills (p. 400) and qualifications." General Edwards assumed that the number of men in this category would not be large. Some 200 ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... gentiles inter se videri volunt et sunt. Quid est enim Philosophia? amor sapientiae. Quid Philocalia? amor pulchritudinis. Germanae igitur istae sunt prorsus, et eodem parente procreatae." Fracastorius beautifully illustrates this in his "Naugerius, sive De Poetica Dialogus." He has been dividing writers, or composers as he calls them, into historians, or those who record appearances; philosophers, who seek out causes; and poets, who perceive and express veras pulchritudines rerum, quicquid ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown

... martyrs and martyrdom. Causes are not won—and in my humble opinion never have been won—in the graveyards. Alive and afoot and armed, and true to my cause, I am the dreaded menace to systematic and respectable robbery. What possible good could have come of mobs killing me and the bandits dividing ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... these dividing hills become Our point of meeting, every eve; Up to the hills we look and pray And love—our work so soon we leave; And then no more shall aught divide— We ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt


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