divider

[ dih-vahy-der ]

noun

1. a person or thing that divides.
2. dividers, a pair of compasses, as used for dividing lines, measuring, etc.
3. 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.
4. room divider.
5. Mining. bunton.

divider

/ dɪˈvaɪdə /

noun

1. Also calledroom divider a screen or piece of furniture placed so as to divide a room into separate areas
2. a person or thing that divides
3. electronics an electrical circuit with an output that is a well-defined fraction of the given input

   a voltage divider

Other Words From

• predi·vider noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of divider¹

First recorded in 1520–30; divide + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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.

From Axios

MidWest Homes for Pets The MidWest Homes for Pets Dog Crate is actually a dog crate with a divider.

From Popular-Science

Small side dividers barely cover the most personal parts of those who bathe.

From 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.

From Science News

I paid at the counter, through a plexiglass divider that went nearly all the way up to the ceiling.

From Eater

At the rear end of the park is a wall or divider maybe six or seven feet high and about twice that wide.

From 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.

From The Daily Beast

For a guy who styled himself as a uniter, not a divider, the nonpartisan legacy looks a little thin.

From The Daily Beast

A divider put up in the living room gave Michelle and Craig their own rooms.

From The Daily Beast

When there comes weariness the divider, and calls the soul away to strange, distant parts, how is one to stay here?

From Project Gutenberg

Always feed yourself with the fork; a knife is only used as a divider.

From Project Gutenberg

It lacked the master-wheel, the reel and the divider, without which the grain cannot be rightly handled.

From Project Gutenberg

Across the divider the traffic was heavier, autos speeding crazily ahead in the direction he was walking; none stopped.

From Project Gutenberg

The way the building is built, it seems like this is more or less a long window with a divider in the middle.

From Project Gutenberg

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