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div

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Dhivehi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ɪv

Clipping of division.

div (plural divs)

1. (mathematics, computing) A function, implemented in many programming languages, that returns the result of a division of two integers.
2. (web design) A section of a web page, or the div element that represents it in HTML code.

   Coordinate term: section break

3. (UK, Eton College, school slang) A division; a lesson.
4. (UK, Winchester College) division; a subject with multidisciplinary scope.
5. (military) A division.

• (web design): divitis (jargon)

Clipping of divergence.

div

1. (vector calculus) Divergence; a kind of differential operator.

Clipping of divinity.

div (uncountable)

1. (UK, uncountable, slang) Divinity, as a school subject.

• divvers

UK, 1980s. Clipping of divvy (“a foolish person”).

div (plural divs)

1. (UK, slang) A foolish person; an idiot.
   • 2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press 2012, p. 13:

     Too many commentators are quick to accuse their enemies of being evil. It's far, far more effective to point out that they're acting like divs instead.

   • 2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 145:

     To put it bluntly – without wanting to attract the ire of mental-health charities – he was a div who went schizo.

   • 2017, Shappi Khorsandi, Nina Is Not OK (page 2)

     Zoe reads a lot and isn't a div like girls as pretty as her can be.

From Iranian Persian دیو‎ (div, “demon”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v /daivaʰ/, “false god; demon”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás (“god, supernatural being”), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god”). Doublet of daeva and deva, and (via PIE) related to Tiw, Zeus, and deus. Compare the root *div- in divine and diva as well as *dei- in deity, deism etc.

div (plural divs)

1. Alternative form of daeva

• D.V.I., DVI, IDV, VDI, vid, vid.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiw/

div f (masculine form daou)

1. two

• (cardinal number): Previous: unan. Next: teir

From Proto-Slavic *divъ. Compare Polish dziw, Russian ди́во (dívo).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɟɪf]

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div m inan

1. wonder

   Alenka v říši divů ― Alice in wonderland

• divit se
• podivit
• udivit
• vynadivit
• odiv m
• obdiv m
• podiv m
• údiv m
• divný m
• podivín m

• div in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• div in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• div in Internetová jazyková příručka

div

1. (law enforcement) Abbreviation of divisi (“division”).

Shortened form of diveji, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *duwō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Akin to Latvian divi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲif]
• Hyphenation: div

div

1. two

• div and divi are invariant for any gender and case, while diveji is declined.

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 33

tae div

1. (auxiliary) Form of tae dae used in the east of Scotland as an auxiliary. Nowadays most often found in Aberdeenshire, Angus, Moray, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders.

   A div agree wi ye.

From Ottoman Turkish دیو‎ (div), from Persian دیو‎ (div), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

• IPA^(key): /dîʋ/

dȉv m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏в)

1. giant

• dìvovskī

div

1. div; the divergence operator

• vid