| 单词 | divider |
| 释义 | divider (once / 16742 pages) n WORD FAMILY divider: dividers+/dividable: undividable/divide: dividable, divided, divider, divides, dividing, divisible, division, subdivide/divided: dividedly, undivided/divisible: divisibility, divisiblest, indivisible/division: divisional, divisions/divisional: divisionally/indivisible: indivisibly/subdivide: subdivided, subdivider, subdivides, subdividing, subdivision/subdivided: unsubdivided/subdivider: subdividers/subdivision: subdivisions/undivided: undividedly USAGE EXAMPLESThe vehicle crashed into concrete dividers on the highway as the two men struggled over a gun and the steering wheel, Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) In one of hip-hop’s most populist periods, he is a divider — a loyalist to out-of-fashion values and a conscientious objector to dominant trends. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) City and county officials say the building is up-to-code, even without the bathroom divider, because the homes don’t contain anywhere to prepare food. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1n a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper partition Wailing Wall a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon Hadrian's Wallan ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain brattice a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine bulkheada partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments screenpartition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space wallan architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure altarpiece, reredosa painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table attic(architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof bearing wallany wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building cavity walla wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them chimney breastwalls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base firewalla fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle gable, gable end, gable wallthe vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof parapeta low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony proscenium, proscenium wallthe wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater purdaha screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers rood screena screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel sidewalla wall that forms the side of a structure wainscoting, wainscottinga wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts 2n a person who separates something into parts or groups Hypo|Hyper subdivider someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 3n a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics Syn|Ant|Hyper splitter lumper a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics systematist, taxonomer, taxonomist a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior 4n a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements Hyper drafting instrument an instrument used by a draftsman in making drawings |
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