divider
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4.1
- noun
- /dɪˈvaɪdər/
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organizador
- Religion is the big divider here; by that I mean between Protestants and Catholics.
- a great divider
Examples
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It's a huge divider in how we count the demographics of American voting habits.
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I cannot stress this enough: religion is a divider just like the other two I mentioned.
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Obama is the biggest divider of this country ever.
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Joe, Obama is no more of a divider than any other politician who has run for the office.
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In other words, the supreme leader has become a divider, not a uniter.
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If he wins the nomination, it will be as a divider, not a uniter, in terms of the Democratic Party.
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Obama, the self-proclaimed uniter, turned out to be the great divider.
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The teacher used a divider to separate the students into different groups for the project.
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In the meeting, she acted as a divider, ensuring each team shared their ideas without interruption.
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The new policy served as a divider between the two departments, clarifying their separate responsibilities.
Synonyms
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7.9
A person or thing that notices differences between similar objects
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9.4
A thing that divides two areas, like a hedge or shelf
A person or tool that divides something into parts
A person or company who makes smaller building plots from a larger piece of land
A person or machine that sorts things into groups
A person who arranges things into groups
A person who divides things into two opposite groups with no middle ground
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A machine that cuts dough into equal pieces and shapes them into small round rolls
A set of resistors connected one after another that gives a smaller, adjustable voltage from a source
- Specialized
A set of resistors connected in a line across a battery or power supply that gives a smaller output voltage
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Etymology
The word divider is built from divide 'to separate' plus the ending -er 'one who does', so a divider can be a person who separates things or sorts people into groups.