What's the difference between divide and spilt?

Divide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.
  • (v. t.) To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.
  • (v. t.) To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
  • (v. t.) To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.
  • (v. t.) To subject to arithmetical division.
  • (v. t.) To separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.
  • (v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.
  • (v. t.) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
  • (v. i.) To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
  • (v. i.) To cause separation; to disunite.
  • (v. i.) To break friendship; to fall out.
  • (v. i.) To have a share; to partake.
  • (v. i.) To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
  • (n.) A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The study of cellular cyclic AMP level in response to extracellular adenosine stimulation in dividing cells and quiescent cells showed that cells in defined medium had a lower extent of response to adenosine compared to cells cultured in serum-containing medium.
  • (2) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
  • (3) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
  • (4) The ACoA branches were divided into the small and the large.
  • (5) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
  • (6) 310 patients with acute infantile gastroenteritis were divided into 2 groups.
  • (7) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (8) To determine the correlation with clinical findings, the patients were divided into three groups: (1) symptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (2) asymptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (3) asymptomatic with polyclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns.
  • (9) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
  • (10) When the schizophrenics were divided into those with and without an abnormal response to PGE1, oleic acid was higher and eicosapentaenoic acid lower in those patients with an abnormal response.
  • (11) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
  • (12) Left ventricular synchrony was assessed from regional volume curves derived by dividing the global ventricular region of interest into four quadrants.
  • (13) The serial changes in EF during exercise was divided into 5 types, including continuous increase (type A), initial increase but return to the baseline (type B), no change (type C), initial increase but later decrease below the baseline (type D), and continuous decrease (type E).
  • (14) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
  • (15) Transplanted cells divided in vivo and progressively migrated into the host brain from the site of implantation up to distances of about 1 mm.
  • (16) The subjects were divided into 4 ages groups, each comprising 8 horses (4 of each sex).
  • (17) Patients were divided into the following groups: control (followed without specific active treatment), corticosteroid group, azathioprine group, corticosteroid and azathioprine group, chlorambucil group, 5-fluorouracil group, colchicine group and isoprinosine group.
  • (18) Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into six groups by the following intrathecal morphine injection: group 1 (0 mg), group 2 (0.025 mg), group 3 (0.05 mg), group 4 (0.075 mg), group 5 (0.1 mg), and group 6 (0.125 mg).
  • (19) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
  • (20) Eighteen rabbits (Kabushikigaishya BioTec Japanese white) were divided into 3 groups.

Spilt


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spill
  • () of Spill
  • () imp. & p. p. of Spill. Spilled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Doctors refuse to discharge 'Baby Asha' because of fears for safety on Nauru Read more It’s understood the baby girl, who is about a year old and is known as Asha, suffered burns when boiling water was accidentally spilt on her on Nauru.
  • (2) A major 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland in the south-east of Nigeria led to thousands of gallons being spilt on farmland and rivers, ultimately leading to a £26m fine for Shell in Nigerian courts 30 years later .
  • (3) Federici, fatally, spilt this, and Bony was ruthless.
  • (4) Addition of surfaceactive agents to the experimental solutions, did not spilt the wave into separate acts.
  • (5) Croatia's anthem is played next and at the end of the line of Croatia's line, Ivica Olic is wearing the expression of a man weighing up whether or not to glass somebody he thinks might have spilt his pint.
  • (6) "Of course there's a change in the amount of coffee being spilt," she adds.
  • (7) Many millions of words have been spilt on the subject of the perfect cup of coffee, the vast proportion confusing or downright contradictory.
  • (8) He has captured the elements of nascent rock scenes in New York, London and California: the sweaty fans, spilt drinks and crumbling venues.
  • (9) My hands – hand – simply wouldn't work, and it wasn't just in a slipping-off-keys manner, which would be at least understandable given the amount of ash I'd spilt on my keyboard down the years.
  • (10) The arrogance of the outsiders who argued that anything was better than Gaddafi’s rule has caused much Libyan blood to be spilt, destabilised a vast region from the Maghreb to Mali, and is now encouraging thousands to try their luck crossing the Mediterranean to Italy .
  • (11) It will not serve BP's ambition to stave off that day if its chief executive plays down the scale of the crisis as he did by suggesting in his interview with this paper yesterday that the oil that has spilt so far is – to paraphrase only a little – just a drop in the ocean.
  • (12) According to the joint investigation team, which included Shell, around 3,800 barrels of crude were spilt at Bonny.
  • (13) The probability of spilling the liquid, the quantity of liquid spilt, and subject's estimates of the probability of spillage were determined for all conditions.
  • (14) The vapours caught light, and in the ensuing panic she spilt petrol on her clothes and they also caught fire.
  • (15) As the presentation may mimic a number of neurological conditions, or patients with AIDS may suffer head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage, or other common conditions, it is probably wise to assume all patients have AIDS and to modify operating technique and other procedures where blood may be spilt to minimise the risks of acquiring the infection.
  • (16) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
  • (17) In fact, vastly more ink was spilt on the subject of the internet, MP3s, iPods, filesharing and their attendant effects on the music industry's finances than on even the biggest pop star.
  • (18) This may sound cynical – who has kids with someone thinking they are gong to spilt up?
  • (19) Although my Catholicism remains resolutely lapsed, it was something I could relate to in a wider sense, and I found myself photographing some spilt milk on a Jerusalem street and an oil stain I saw in Bethlehem.
  • (20) Chemical analysis revealed that the isotonically contracting muscle spilt only 25% as much high energy phosphate as did the isometrically contracting muscle.

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