DIVIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divider mean? 

• DIVIDER (noun)
  The noun DIVIDER has 4 senses:

1. a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics

2. a person who separates something into parts or groups

3. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

4. a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements

  Familiarity information: DIVIDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVIDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

divider; splitter

Hypernyms ("divider" is a kind of...):

systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)

Derivation:

divide (separate into parts or portions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who separates something into parts or groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("divider" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "divider"):

subdivider (someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites))

Derivation:

divide (separate into parts or portions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

divider; partition

Hypernyms ("divider" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "divider"):

brattice (a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine)

bulkhead (a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments)

screen (partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space)

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Derivation:

divide (separate into parts or portions)

divide (act as a barrier between; stand between)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("divider" is a kind of...):

drafting instrument (an instrument used by a draftsman in making drawings)

 Context examples 

A framework of bars designed as a covering or divider.

(Grille Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

And although they are dexterous enough upon a piece of paper, in the management of the rule, the pencil, and the divider, yet in the common actions and behaviour of life, I have not seen a more clumsy, awkward, and unhandy people, nor so slow and perplexed in their conceptions upon all other subjects, except those of mathematics and music.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)