partition
noun
a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
have partitioned
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present perfectof partition.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Because he is mildly superstitious, the round numbers that have partitioned his life please his "sense of mathematical clarity."
From Time Magazine Archive
They have partitioned the human species into anywhere from two to 200 races; some anthropologists maintain that humanity cannot or should not be subdivided into races at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dining room is large and very long, a part of which we have partitioned off with a piece of canvas and converted into a storeroom.
From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe
I have partitioned it off by itself and it can be skipped.
From The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee
Two species of jungle-fowl have partitioned the Indian peninsula between them.
From Birds of the Indian Hills by Douglas Dewar
