Definitions for divider

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divider di·vid·er

Spelling: [dih-vahy-der]

IPA: /dɪˈvaɪ dər/

Divider is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in divider (ddeiirv).

Definitions for divider

noun

1. a person or thing that divides.
2. dividers, a pair of compasses, as used for dividing lines, measuring, etc.
3. a partition between two areas or dividing one area into two, as a piece of cardboard in a box or a bookcase jutting out from a wall.
4. room divider.
5. Mining. bunton.

Origin of divider

First recorded in 1520-30; divide + -er¹

Examples for divider

It must have at the end of its knife a curved arm—a divider.

A divider put up in the living room gave Michelle and Craig their own rooms.

Use knife only as a divider, the fork to take food to the mouth.

And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

For a guy who styled himself as a uniter, not a divider, the nonpartisan legacy looks a little thin.

The tool can be used as an outside caliper, as an inside caliper, and as a divider.

There it stands, the divider of time and the divider of men.

“I got jerked both ways in the car, hit my head on the divider, and then hit my legs on the side of the car,” he says.

And he said unto him, 'Man, who made Me a judge or a divider over you?'

At the rear end of the park is a wall or divider maybe six or seven feet high and about twice that wide.