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A sea element shore establishment. This is the endearing term used for Naval Reserve Divisions, many of which are located miles from any shore.
To arrange the political divisions, so that in an election, one party may obtain an advantage over its opponent, even though the latter may possess a majority of the votes in the State.
A formal parade held on special occasions ranging from Church Divisions to Admiral's Divisions.
The First (1st) Cavalry; the 1st, the 4th, the Fifth, the Ninth, the 23rd (Americal), and the 25th Infantry Divisions; The 82nd, and 101st Airborne; The lst, the Third, and the 5th Marines; and The Second, the Seventh, and 834th Air. Pg. 118 DI WEE
two or more divisions, responsible for the defense of a Military Region. Pg. 507
A Naval Reservist. When the term is used by the Regular Force is it derogatory. When it is used within the ranks of the Naval Reserve it carries a certain degree of pride. eg. "Sharpest Hands at Divisions". The term is derived from the fact that when fishing, shad can be the least desirable catch.
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Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
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To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite.
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An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
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A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
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One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.
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One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
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One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.
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A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.
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One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
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Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.
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One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebrae, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata always have a dorsal, or neural, cavity above the notochord or backbone, and a ventral, or visceral, cavity below it. The subdivisions or classes of Vertebrata are Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Marsipobranchia, and Leptocardia.
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One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
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The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
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One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding.
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One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter.
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A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.
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One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.
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One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy.
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One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
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