The difference between Combine and Divide

When used as nouns, combine means a combine harvester, whereas divide means a thing that divides.

When used as verbs, combine means to bring (two or more things or activities) together, whereas divide means to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

check bellow for the other definitions of Combine and Divide

  1. Combine as a verb (transitive):

    To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

    Examples:

    "'Combine the milk and the hot water in a large bowl. I'm combining business and pleasure on this trip."

  2. Combine as a verb (transitive):

    To have two or more things or properties that function together.

    Examples:

    "Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician."

  3. Combine as a verb (intransitive):

    To come together; to unite.

    Examples:

    "two substances that easily combine"

  4. Combine as a verb (card games):

    In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

  5. Combine as a verb (obsolete):

    To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

  1. Combine as a noun:

    A combine harvester

    Examples:

    "We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud."

  2. Combine as a noun:

    A combination Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.

    Examples:

    "The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges."

  1. Divide as a verb (transitive):

    To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

    Examples:

    "a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns"

  2. Divide as a verb (transitive):

    To share (something) by dividing it.

    Examples:

    "How shall we divide this pie?"

  3. Divide as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):

    To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).

    Examples:

    "If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2."

  4. Divide as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):

    To be a divisor of.

    Examples:

    "3 divides 6."

  5. Divide as a verb (intransitive):

    To separate into two or more parts.

  6. Divide as a verb (intransitive, biology):

    Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

  7. Divide as a verb:

    To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

  8. Divide as a verb (obsolete):

    To break friendship; to fall out.

  9. Divide as a verb (obsolete):

    To have a share; to partake.

  10. Divide as a verb:

    To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.

  11. Divide as a verb:

    To mark divisions on; to graduate.

    Examples:

    "to divide a sextant"

  12. Divide as a verb (music):

    To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

  1. Divide as a noun:

    A thing that divides.

    Examples:

    "Stay on your side of the divide, please."

  2. Divide as a noun:

    An act of dividing.

    Examples:

    "The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property."

  3. Divide as a noun:

    A distancing between two people or things.

    Examples:

    "There is a great divide between us."

  4. Divide as a noun (geography):

    A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

    Examples:

    "If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first."

    "The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.'' [[File:The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.ogg]]"

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