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

If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.

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Sense（4）

(transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.

3 divides 6.

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Sense（5）

(intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.

Sense（6）

(intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.

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Sense（7）

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

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

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Sense（8）

(obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.

love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide.

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Sense（9）

(obsolete) To have a share; to partake.

Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.

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Sense（10）

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.