divide vs garner

divide

noun
  • An act of dividing. 

  • A distancing between two people or things. 

  • A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land. 

  • The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest. 

  • A thing that divides. 

verb
  • To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, 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. 

  • To share (something) by dividing it. 

  • To separate into two or more parts. 

  • To mark divisions on; to graduate. 

  • To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend). 

  • To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. 

  • To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. 

  • To be a divisor of. 

  • To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. 

  • Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing. 

garner

verb
  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. 

  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. 

  • To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. 

  • To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact 

noun
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. 

  • A granary; a store of grain. 

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