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語源 1

Clipping of division.

名詞

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.

派生語

• (web design): divitis (jargon)

動詞

div

1. Abbreviation of divide.

語源 2

Clipping of divergence.

名詞

div

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

語源 3

Clipping of divinity.

名詞

div (uncountable)

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

同意語

• divvers

語源 4

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

名詞

div (plural divs)

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A foolish person; an idiot.
   • 2012, Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, Ebury Press, published 2012, page 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.

語源 5

Borrowed from Iranian Persian دیوْ (div), from Middle Persian 𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /⁠dēw⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v /⁠daivaʰ⁠⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *daywáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós, from *dyew- + *-ós. 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.

名詞

div (plural divs)

1. Alternative form of daeva.

アナグラム

• VDI, IVD, IDV, vid, D.V.I., DVI, vid.