Word Meanings - BISECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divide into two equal parts. (more info) Etym: 1. To cut or divide into two parts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BISECT)

• intimidate
• Halve
• bisect
• Divide
• Separate
• dissect
• portio
• part
• divorce
• segregate
• sever
• sunder
• deal out
• disunite
• keep apart
• part among
• allot
• distribute
• multiply

Related words: (words related to BISECT)

• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• DISSECT
  To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism;
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• SUNDER
  A separation into parts; a division or severance. In sunder, into parts. "He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder." Ps. xlvi. 9.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• BISECTION
  Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
• HALVED
  Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away; dimidiate.
• ALLOT
  Etym: 1. To distribute by lot. 2. To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
• DIVORCEMENT
  Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. R. Morris.
• ALLOTTERY
  Allotment. Shak.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• BISECTRIX
  The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
• ALLOTHEISM
  The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.
• BISECT
  To divide into two equal parts. (more info) Etym: 1. To cut or divide into two parts.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• PERSEVER
  To persevere.
• BALLOTER
  One who votes by ballot.
• ASSEVERATORY
  Asseverative.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• CALOTTE; CALLOT
  A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to