divide vs harvest

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. 

harvest

noun
  • The product or result of any exertion or course of action; reward or consequences. 

  • A modern pagan ceremony held on or around the autumn equinox, which is in the harvesting season. 

  • The season of gathering ripened crops; specifically, the time of reaping and gathering grain. 

  • This year's cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest was disastrous. 

  • The process of gathering the ripened crop; harvesting. 

  • The third season of the year; autumn; fall. 

  • The yield of harvesting, i.e., the gathered crops or fruits. 

verb
  • To win, achieve a gain. 

  • To be occupied bringing in a harvest 

  • To bring in a harvest; reap; glean. 

  • To kill for meat, slaughter. 

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