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DIVIDE , a word used technically as a noun in See also:America and the See also:British colonies for any high See also:ridge between two valleys, forming a See also:water-parting; a dividing range . For See also:special senses of the verb " to divide " (See also:Lat. di-videre, the latter See also:part of the word coming from a See also:root seen in Lat. vidua, Eng . " widow "), meaning generally to split up in two or more parts, see See also:DIVISION . In a See also:parliamentary sense, to divide (involving a separation into two sides, Aye and No) is to take the sense of the See also:House by voting on the subject before it . |
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