division
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5.1
- noun
- /dɪˈvɪʒən/
:
división
- In 2003, he led the storied division of the 101st Airborne in the invasion of Iraq.
- infantry division
- airborne division
- military division
He was promoted out of the division and put in the headquarters.
- He was promoted out of the division and put in the headquarters.
- What what is the the mountain division or troop of the SAS?
- And then the military was going to bring down an armored division by rail.
- But should British General Sir Stanley Maude carry on to Baghdad, could his four divisions handle the Turks?
- On the upper part is the division of Verdun.
Examples
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The Northern division was nearing the bridge to meet the supply trains.
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Commander Arthur Curry now had to bring his two reserve divisions for his next attack next week.
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I run the Special Operation division of MI6.
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And then the military was going to bring down an armored division by rail.
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The Northern division nearing the bridge to meet the supply trains.
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One light infantry division of 10,700 men.
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I represent a top secret division of the government, designing and testing experimental technology, and we have need of your unique abilities.
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The American doughboys of the All-American Division, like Cousin Max, had kicked the Kaiser back to Germany!
Fiction book (1992) -
Commander Arthur Curry brought his two reserve divisions for the next attack next week.
Synonyms
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2.8
A group of people in an organization who have a specific job
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2.3
One part of a country's armed forces, like the army or navy
431
1.3
A division of a larger organization, like a local office
156
3.2
A group of soldiers organized to protect or fight for a country
36
2.9
A part of a country's armed forces, like the army or navy
15
2.8
A group of soldiers that does a specific task
5
2.5
A group of soldiers organized as part of an army, like a platoon or company
4
7.2
A group in a company or sport that has teams and staff
2
3.1
A unit of soldiers organized to do a specific job for the armed forces
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.8
A process in which a cell splits to make two or more new cells for growth and reproduction
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3.7
A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services
- Specialized
The part of a body of water that includes the sea floor and nearby shore areas
- Specialized
A group of mostly single-celled living things with cells that have a nucleus, like slime molds and some algae
- Archaic
A former group of plants like ferns that have tubes and make spores not seeds
- Specialized
A large group of red seaweeds that grow mainly in the sea near the shore
- Archaic
An old scientific name for blue-green algae now called cyanobacteria
- Archaic
A group of single-celled life forms different from bacteria and from animals and plants
- Specialized
A group of small plants that do not make flowers, like mosses, liverworts and hornworts
- Archaic
A group of mostly freshwater microscopic algae with yellow or brown color
- Archaic
A group of bacteria like blue-green algae that make food from sunlight and live in water and soil
- Archaic
A large group of single-celled living things that have rigid cell walls
- Specialized
A group of small, free-swimming algae that move with a tail and live in fresh water
- Specialized
A main group of fungi like mushrooms and molds that have cells with walls made of chitin
- Archaic
An old scientific group for organisms where a fungus lives with algae or blue-green bacteria
- Specialized
A group of brown seaweeds like kelp used in some biology classifications
- Jargon
A group in the United States Air Force that has two or more wings and controls them
A main United States Navy group that designs and tests aircraft and missiles
- Specialized
A type of cell division that makes four sex cells, each with half the chromosomes
- Specialized
Separating a word into parts when it breaks at the end of a line in writing
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Division comes from the verb divide, from an old Latin word meaning 'to separate into parts'. So a military division is a large group that is set apart as its own unit.