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▪ I. dividing, vbl. n.|dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ|
[f. divide v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb divide; division.
1526–34Tindale Heb. iv. 12 Euen vnto the diuidynge a sonder of the soule and the sprete. 1663Gerbier Counsel C ij a, Their Jurisdiction extends as far as the deviding of the Seas neere Rochel. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. vi. 124 That there might be no dispute about dividing. 1882Garden 4 Feb. 86/3 Alocasias..bear dividing freely.
▪ II. diˈviding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That divides, in various senses; that cleaves into parts; † ‘running divisions’ in singing (quot. 1639; see division 7); that separates regions, parts, etc.
Now often written with hyphen in certain phrases or combinations, as dividing-line, dividing-point, where it may be taken as the vbl. n. used attrib. dividing-engine, a machine for graduating or dividing a circle into a number of equal parts, or for cutting the circumference of a wheel into a number of teeth. dividing ridge = divide n. 2.
1620Quarles Jonah (1638) 34 Horrid claps of heavens-dividing thunder. a1639Carew Poems Wks. (1824) 129 In your sweet dividing throat, She [the nightingale] winters and keepes warme her note. 1807P. Gass Jrnl. 237 We came to the dividing ridge between the waters of the Missouri and Columbia. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 338/1 The invention by Ramsden of his dividing engine. Ibid. 338/2 The dividing tool employed by Graham was the beam-compass. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 251 The true dividing-line. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. s.v., Ramsden's circular dividing-engine consisted of a large wheel moved by a tangent screw. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 88 [A] Dividing plate..[is] the circular brass plate in a wheel-cutting engine, in which holes are drilled as a register for the proper division of the wheel teeth.
Hence diˈvidingly adv., so as to divide.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Divisément, diuidingly, separately. 1847in Craig. |