My imac hard drive is almost full?  Can i add an external drive that will serve as both the main and back-up drive?

my imac 500g internal drive is nearly full, so i plan to add an external desktop drive.  i also need to use time machine for backups--can i simply buy one large drive to handle both needs, or do i need a dedicated drive for the time machine?
thanks!

I've racked my brain with this issue - done everything I know to do - and still I get this:
I've clearly moved everything to external drives except for 1GB of dropbox data that I keep across all my devices.
I've tried all of 'where did my disk space go' 's suggestions.
Terminal commands to disable local backup
What's interesting to me about this is that I do have 4.45 GB of Applications - is that “Other?”
I'm to the point where I'd like to wipe and start all over.. but that scares me! Suggestions?
iMac 10.7.5 (Lion)
4 GB Memory plus
2.8 GHz Intel COre 2 Duo

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