divider
/dɪˈvʌɪdə
/noun
1A person or thing that divides a whole into parts.They feed on it because they would love to divide it and there are people like that I've always called the dividers....
- We need an environment for independent media as the unifiers, not dividers, of society.
- During the presidential campaign, he vowed, ‘I'm a uniter, not a divider.’
1.1 (also room divider) A screen or piece of furniture that divides a room into two parts.This mosquito barrier also serves as a flexible room divider between the kitchen and the other living areas....
- A focal point is the Craftsman-inspired room divider that functions as a bookcase on one side and bench on the other.
- Eric stood next to the room divider that separated the item shop and the bar.
1.2An issue on which opinions are divided: on the Labour side, the big divider was still nuclear weapons...
- I see a difference and I think it has basically to do with the abortion issue and the perception of the abortion issue as a divider.
- It seems this last one is a real opinion divider.
- The cultural and political dividers between Europe and the US are second-order issues.
2 (dividers) A measuring compass, especially one with a screw for making fine adjustments.The little kids did not like what we said and had their compasses and dividers out, ready to give us a poke so we scooted out....
- In a corner of the lunette depicting Solomon Sitting in Judgment is a figure of a seated man holding a pair of dividers and examining a drawing.
- A pair of dividers, which is a weaker tool than a compass, enables one to transfer distances.
Rhymes
- market dealer
- market-driven
- market economy
- marketeer
- marketer
- market failure
- market fair
- market fish
- market forces
- market-fresh
- market garden
- market gardener
- market gardening
- market house
- market hunter
- market hunting
- market indicator
- marketing
- marketing campaign
- marketing company
- marketing exercise
- marketing man
- marketing mix
- marketing research
- marketing researcher