divider

[ dih-vahy-der ]

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noun

a person or thing that divides.
dividers, a pair of compasses, as used for dividing lines, measuring, etc.

a partition between two areas or dividing one area into two, as a piece of cardboard in a box or a bookcase jutting out from a wall.
room divider.
Mining. bunton.

Origin of divider

First recorded in 1520–30; divide + -er¹

Other words from divider

pre·di·vid·er, noun

Words Nearby divider

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How to use divider in a sentence

The expo center was filled with the echoes of dozens of other Afghans who emerged from behind dividers where they had been processed with wristbands signaling their different visa statuses.
Nine days back to freedom: An Afghan's tale | Erin Doherty | August 27, 2021 | Axios
MidWest Homes for Pets The MidWest Homes for Pets Dog Crate is actually a dog crate with a divider.
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Small side dividers barely cover the most personal parts of those who bathe.
Locked up in the Land of Liberty: Part I | Yariel Valdés González | July 7, 2021 | Washington Blade
An identical setup, but with all healthy birds, was located in the same room but on the other side of an opaque divider.
The mere sight of illness may kick-start a canary’s immune system | Jonathan Lambert | June 8, 2021 | Science News
I paid at the counter, through a plexiglass divider that went nearly all the way up to the ceiling.
I Found the Formula for Road Trip Bliss, and It’s Gardetto’s and Sour Punch Straws | Jenny G. Zhang | May 26, 2021 | Eater

At the rear end of the park is a wall or divider maybe six or seven feet high and about twice that wide.
Inside Hebron, Israel’s Heart of Darkness | Michael Tomasky | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
“I got jerked both ways in the car, hit my head on the divider, and then hit my legs on the side of the car,” he says.
Ezra Miller on ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Being Bisexual & More | Marlow Stern | September 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
For a guy who styled himself as a uniter, not a divider, the nonpartisan legacy looks a little thin.
Bush's Rose-Colored Glasses | Richard Wolffe | November 13, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
A divider put up in the living room gave Michelle and Craig their own rooms.
Hail to the First Granny | Mo Rocca | January 24, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
When there comes weariness the divider, and calls the soul away to strange, distant parts, how is one to stay here?
A Sportsman's Sketches | Ivan Turgenev
Always feed yourself with the fork; a knife is only used as a divider.
A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies | Anonymous
It lacked the master-wheel, the reel and the divider, without which the grain cannot be rightly handled.
The Romance of the Reaper | Herbert Newton Casson
Across the divider the traffic was heavier, autos speeding crazily ahead in the direction he was walking; none stopped.
Pleasant Journey | Richard F. Thieme
The way the building is built, it seems like this is more or less a long window with a divider in the middle.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for divider

divider

/ (dɪˈvaɪdə) /

noun

Also called: room divider a screen or piece of furniture placed so as to divide a room into separate areas
a person or thing that divides

electronics an electrical circuit with an output that is a well-defined fraction of the given input: a voltage divider

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