Hypertext Webster Gateway: "divider"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Divider \Di*vid"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates
anything into parts.

2. One who deals out to each his share.

Who made me a judge or a divider over you? --Luke
xii. 14.

3. One who, or that which, causes division.

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider.
--Milton.

Money, the great divider of the world. --Swift.

4. pl. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles,
etc., compasses. See {Compasses}.

Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument
as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to
the coarser instrument used by carpenters.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

divider
n 1: a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on
the basis of relatively minor characteristics [syn: {splitter}]
[ant: {lumper}]
2: a person who separates something into parts or groups
3: a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall
divides one room from another) [syn: {partition}]


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