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bisect
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide in two |
| Synonyms: | bifurcate, branch off, cleave, cross, cut across, cut in half, cut in two, dichotomize, dimidiate, divaricate, divide in two, fork, furcate, halve, hemisect, intersect, separate, split, split down the middle |
| Antonyms: | combine, join |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | divide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate, disconnect |
| Synonyms: | abscind, bisect, branch, break, break down, carve, chop, cleave, cross, cut, cut up, demarcate, detach, dichotomize, disengage, disentangle, disjoin, dislocate, dismember, dissect, dissever, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divorce, halve, intersect, isolate, loose, part, partition, pull away, quarter, rend, rupture, section, segment, segregate, sever, shear, split, subdivide, sunder, tear, unbind, undo |
| Antonyms: | append, attach, collect, combine, connect, couple, gather, join, link, unite |
| Main Entry: | halve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut in half |
| Synonyms: | bisect, divide equally, reduce by fifty percent, share equally, split in two |
| Notes: | half is one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; halve means to divide by two |
| Antonyms: | combine |
| Main Entry: | intersect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut across; cross at a point |
| Synonyms: | bisect, break in two, come together, converge, crisscross, cross, crosscut, cut, decussate, divide, intercross, join, meet, separate, touch, traverse |
| Main Entry: | sever |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut apart |
| Synonyms: | bisect, carve, cleave, cut, cut in two, detach, disconnect, disjoin, dissect, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, part, rend, rive, separate, slice, split, sunder |
| Antonyms: | combine, join, unite |
| Main Entry: | traverse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cross over; travel |
| Synonyms: | bisect, bridge, cover, crisscross, cross, cut across, decussate, do, go across, go over, intersect, move over, negotiate, pace, pass over, pass through, perambulate, peregrinate, ply, quarter, range, roam, span, track, transverse, travel over, tread, walk, wander |
| Main Entry: | bifurcate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide into two branches |
| Synonyms: | bisect, branch, diverge, divide, fork, furcate, ramify, separate, split |
| Main Entry: | decussate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cross |
| Synonyms: | bisect, crisscross, crosscut, intersect |
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