The difference between Cut up and Divide

When used as verbs, cut up means to cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections, whereas divide means to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

Cut up is also adjective with the meaning: having been cut into smaller pieces.

Divide is also noun with the meaning: a thing that divides.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cut up and Divide

  1. Cut up as a verb (transitive):

    To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.

    Examples:

    "With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying."

  2. Cut up as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.

    Examples:

    "The attackers cut him up pretty bad."

  3. Cut up as a verb (transitive, idiomatic):

    To distress mentally or emotionally.

  4. Cut up as a verb (transitive, idiomatic, dated):

    To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.

    Examples:

    "The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly."

  5. Cut up as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic):

    To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.

    Examples:

    "We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class."

  6. Cut up as a verb (transitive, idiomatic, British):

    To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving. US: cut off.

  7. Cut up as a verb (intransitive):

    To disintegrate; to break into pieces.

  8. Cut up as a verb (slang, dated):

    To divide into portions well or badly; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc.

  9. Cut up as a verb (informal, racing):

    Comprise a particular selection of runners.

    Examples:

    "The race has cut up badly with no real opposition to "Serendipity"."

  1. Cut up as an adjective:

    Having been cut into smaller pieces.

    Examples:

    "Put the cut up vegetables in the pot."

  2. Cut up as an adjective:

    Wounded with multiple lacerations.

    Examples:

    "He is cut up pretty bad."

  3. Cut up as an adjective (idiomatic, UK, Australia):

    Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.

    Examples:

    "She was seriously cut up over her dog disappearing."

  4. Cut up as an adjective (informal):

    Muscular and lean.

    Examples:

    "I go to the gym to get stronger and cut up."

  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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