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单词 divide
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divide
(dɪvd )
Word forms: divides , dividing , divided
1. verb B1
When people or things are divided or divide into smaller groups or parts, they become separated into smaller parts.
The physical benefits of exercise can be divided into three factors. [be VERB-ed + into]
It will be easiest if we divide them into groups. [VERB noun + into]
Divide the pastry in half and roll out each piece. [VERB noun + in]
We divide into pairs and each pair takes a region. [VERB + into]
Bacteria reproduce by dividing and making copies of themselves. [VERB]
[Also VERB noun]
2. verb B2
If you divide something among people or things, you separate it into several parts or quantities which you distribute to the people or things.
Paul divides most of his spare time between the study and his bedroom. [V n between/among pl-n]
Divide the sauce among 4 bowls. [V n + between/among]
[Also VERB noun]
3. verb B2
If you divide a larger number by a smaller number or divide a smaller number into a larger number, you calculate how many times the smaller number can fit exactly into the larger number.
Measure the floor area of the greenhouse and divide it by six. [V n + by/into]
4. verb B1+
If a border or line divides two areas or divides an area into two, it keeps the two areas separate from each other.
the decision to divide the country into autonomous regions. [VERB noun]
...the artificial line that divides the city. [VERB noun]
...the long frontier dividing Mexico from the United States. [VERB noun + from]
[Also V n into pl-n]
Synonyms: separate, part, split, cut (up)  
5. verb
If people divide over something or if something divides them, it causes strong disagreement between them.
She has done more to divide the Conservatives than anyone else. [VERB noun]
The democrats are divided over whether to admit him into their group. [VERB-ed]
The party is likely to divide along ideological lines. [VERB preposition]
[Also VERB noun preposition]
Synonyms: split, break up, alienate, embroil  
6. countable noun [usually singular]
A divide is a significant distinction between two groups, often one that causes conflict.
...a deliberate attempt to create a Hindu-Muslim divide in India.
7. countable noun [usually singular]
A divide is a moment in time or a point in a process when there is a complete change from one situation to another.
The time had come to cross the great divide between formality and truth.
8. countable noun
A divide is a line of high ground between areas that are drained by different rivers. [US]
regional note:   in BRIT, usually use watershed
9. divide and rule phrase
You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them. [disapproval]
Ministers will offer inducements to some, in an attempt to divide and rule.
Phrasal verbs:
divide off
phrasal verb
If something divides an area off, it forms a barrier that keeps it separate from another area.
...a bamboo partition dividing off another room for the girls. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
divide up
1. phrasal verb B2
If you divide something up, you separate it into smaller or more useful groups.
The idea is to divide up the country into four sectors. [V P n + into]
The Trust needs a new law to divide it up into smaller bodies. [V n P + into]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb B2
If you divide something up, you share it out among a number of people or groups in approximately equal parts.
The aim was to divide up the business, give everyone an equal stake in its future. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
Quotations:
Divide and rulePhilip of Macedon
Idioms:
divide and conquer or divide and rule
a strategy by which someone remains in power by making sure that the people under their control quarrel among themselves and so cannot unite to achieve their aims and overthrow their leader
Trade unions are concerned that management may be tempted into a policy of divide and rule.
Collocations:
create a divide
Their original unedifying action served to create a divide.
Times,Sunday Times
There was an enormous concrete wall that created a divide in the apartment.
Times, Sunday Times
During the 1990s, local greengrocers were in decline and big supermarkets were dominating the food industry, creating a divide between the food-buying public and producers.
Times, Sunday Times
The original creators of the source material usually have very little to no involvement in the films creative control, creating a divide among fans.
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deep divide
He pinpointed a 'them and us' attitude that can keep medics and managers either side of a deep divide, where the losers are the patients.
Times, Sunday Times
What she needed was a bridge to cross the deep divide between her knowledge and her desired actions.
Christianity Today
The plethora of yoga pictures and jargon on the internet has formed a deep divide between 'yoga people' and 'non-yoga people'.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead, they quickly consolidated a deep divide in the social structure of the state, based on differences in citizenship status.
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There are, however, deep divides about how, or even whether, the student finance system should be reformed.
Times, Sunday Times
divide a community
His extreme views will only divide the community, not bring them closer.
The Sun
However, the noise and nuisance caused by them has divided some communities into diggers and non-diggers.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the railroad crossing effectively divided the community into two separate parts.
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The police crackdown has divided the community, as many fans found it excessive and even oppressive.
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The very first discourse, and subsequent ones (especially number 14), divides the community into two groups.
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divide a group
At your party, give each guest one of the painted eggs and divide the group into pairs.
The Sun
He paraded in a mock colosseum, the show's biggest ever prop, and was told to divide the group.
The Sun
Very often teams are formed with intent to divide the group into approximately equal levels of skills among the players.
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They divided a group of men with prostate disease into two sets.
Times, Sunday Times
But dividing the group into a back book and a separate company seeking new business has a kind of logic to it.
Times, Sunday Times
divide a mixture
Next, divide the mixture between four deep, individual pie dishes.
The Sun
Add half of the lemon juice plus salt and pepper to taste and divide the mixture into 4 equal portions.
The Sun
Divide the mixture between the four drawn circles, spreading evenly.
The Sun
Divide the mixture into four equal pieces, and form each piece into a burger shape.
The Sun
Divide the mixture among four ramekins and leave to cool.
The Sun
divide a nation
As for claims that a second referendum would divide the nation irreparably and boost the far right, they don't stand up to scrutiny.
Times, Sunday Times
The new constitution looks set to divide the nation, not unite it.
Times, Sunday Times
It would divide the nation.
Times, Sunday Times
I fear these lessons are going to put emphasis on the differences that exist in our society and through this further divide the nation.
Times, Sunday Times
He proposed to divide the nation into six geographical corps districts, each of which would contain the appropriate units during peacetime which it would command in war.
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divide a party
Her book and her message, if seen as a way to expand rather than divide the party, are helpful guides to candidates and political operatives.
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A clear result will draw a line under an issue that has divided the party for decades.
The Sun
The poll also shows only five points now divide the parties.
The Sun
Conference delegates have decided against a vote on the subject, precisely because it divides the party.
Times, Sunday Times
So few things have the capacity to divide the party's supporters, new and old, like infrastructure projects.
Times,Sunday Times
divide a population
Typically, the modeller seeks to divide the population into quantiles, and rank the quantiles by lift.
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Not only did he unwittingly divide the population, but his insistence that educational grants be divided three ways provided an important precedent for a general division of all state patronage.
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Calculations are made by dividing the population by the land area.
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The state was divided into uyezds, which mostly consisted of cities and their immediate surrounding areas; this system divided the population unevenly and was extremely clumsy to manage.
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divide a property
But you would then have to consider how to divide the property.
Times, Sunday Times
We have now separated and were granted planning permission to divide the property into two dwellings.
Times, Sunday Times
Their initial plan was to divide the property into four homes and sell them for a profit.
Times, Sunday Times
Had the refurbishment not recently been completed, it would be tempting to suggest that the owner divide the property into two separate and more affordable houses.
Times, Sunday Times
There are cases where judges divide the property differently from the way it's owned, but these are quite rare.
The Sun
divide a region
The systems divide the region covered into multiple geographic areas.
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He considered the extent of the known world to be 160 in longitude, and divided the region into ten parts, each 16 wide.
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He later divided the region into districts, developed standard curricula, and attempted to obtain standard textbooks.
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Altitude divides the region into three sub climates (cool and semi moist, semi cold and semi moist and cold and semi moist).
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divide equally
Mix together the stuffing ingredients, if using, and divide equally between the fish.
Times, Sunday Times
Divide equally between six muffin cases and bake for approximately 25 minutes until risen and firm to the touch.
The Sun
Divide equally among 4 ramekins (about 200ml capacity).
Times, Sunday Times
Divide equally between the jars and chill until set.
The Sun
Divide equally between the paper cases/ muffin tin holes.
The Sun
divide evenly
The shared food comes in numbers that never divide evenly by the people eating.
Times, Sunday Times
Remove from the heat, stir in the prunes, then divide evenly between 4 ramekins.
Times, Sunday Times
Gently warm the pea purée, then divide evenly between 4 large plates.
Times, Sunday Times
Divide evenly between 6 pots, and refrigerate until ready to use.
Times, Sunday Times
Divide evenly among four chilled plates.
Times, Sunday Times
divide fairly
The world seems to divide fairly convincingly into those who expect to succeed in business and those who expect to fail.
Times, Sunday Times
Other age groups - the under-25s and 40-65 year-olds both divided fairly evenly.
Times, Sunday Times
The room divides fairly neatly into two categories.
Times, Sunday Times
The public as a whole divides fairly evenly: 49 in favour of money for improvements coming from general taxation, 51 per cent saying that cyclists should pay a tax.
Times, Sunday Times
It stands or falls, though, on the comedy potential, which seemed to be divided fairly equally over the two weekend shows.
The Sun
divide neatly
The winners divide neatly into two groups: those boasting top-class two-year-old form and those that came from the clouds.
Times, Sunday Times
Most writers don't have lives that divide neatly into professional and private spheres.
The Times Literary Supplement
Her writing career divided neatly into two parts.
Times, Sunday Times
For visitors, it divides neatly into three parts.
Times, Sunday Times
The villa divides neatly into two parts, one 15th century, the other 16th, connected by a door on the first floor.
Times, Sunday Times
divide roughly
No one trades speculative gains for certain losses and our parties will divide roughly along the same lines in 30 years as now.
Times, Sunday Times
We divide roughly into two camps: rustic or nautical.
Times, Sunday Times
The rest divide roughly into those that concentrate on local sovereignty issues and those that aspire to a power-projection role.
Times, Sunday Times
Singers can be divided roughly into two types.
Times, Sunday Times
The water was divided roughly in half between the two dummy stages.
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divide the responsibility
Systems based on distrust simply divide the responsibility so that checks and balances can operate.
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Frequently, ruling panels have been set up when a boss goes to jail to divide the responsibility of the family (these usually consist of three or five members).
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And with no nanny on the scene - there never has been - they divide their responsibilities equally.
The Sun
There are a variety of ways to divide the responsibilities between the referees and linesmen.
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This necessitated a change in the official city code dividing the responsibilities of city administrator between remaining city employees.
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divided loyalty
His homeland versus the land of his forefathers could mean an afternoon of divided loyalty.
Times, Sunday Times
And ahead of today's game he reckons that will be her way of handling a bad case of divided loyalty.
The Sun
There are divided loyalties when his family watches rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
As the war began, the city's divided loyalties created tension.
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This proximity generated multiple news stories about towns lying between the two schools and the divided loyalties of their fans.
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economic divide
Many of the legacy questions bridge the economic divide and 6,000 miles.
Times, Sunday Times
They would help to bridge the regional economic divide, revive downtrodden areas and could be financed at record low borrowing costs.
Times, Sunday Times
The former deputy prime minister, 80, said the 50bn infrastructure scheme was vital to addressing the economic divide between the north and south of the country.
Times, Sunday Times
Even that will not resolve the euro's great problem: a cultural and economic divide between north and south that has widened rather than narrowed since the currency was created.
Times,Sunday Times
Government trials found that it helped to break down social and economic divides in the classroom.
Times, Sunday Times
generational divide
What is striking is this generational divide.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This is what you might call a generational divide.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This generational divide opened up well before the financial crisis landed.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The class divide informs the generational divide.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
ideological divide
But the apparent ideological divide runs both ways.
canada.com
Their respective gangs have tried to spin this into an ideological divide, but the evidence has never been convincing.
Times, Sunday Times
International supplies of natural gas will be controlled by unstable countries on the wrong side of the ideological divide, while worldwide demand will soar.
Times, Sunday Times
It also reinforced an emerging ideological divide between energy economists on the extent of the yet to be named effect.
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The first coalition since the second world war, it seemed ripe for ructions between two parties with deep ideological divides.
Times, Sunday Times
line divides
And yet, and yet ... a line divides the good writer from the latenight assailant of the defenceless keyboard.
The Times Literary Supplement
The provincial line divides the city in two aspects related to communications.
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The center line divides the floor in half lengthwise.
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Just beyond the south/east end of the station, the line divides into two branches.
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That line divides the square on the hypotenuse into two rectangles, each having the same area as one of the two squares on the legs.
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north-south divide
It won't heal the North-South divide - it will make it worse.
The Sun (2013)
Over the four most recent decades, the North-South divide in house prices has grown wider.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A HUGE north-south divide exists in how often people go to the gym, a survey has found.
The Sun (2013)
partisan divide
But this election season has revealed a shift in our partisan divide over paid parental leave.
Christianity Today
The republic survived an equally embittered partisan divide in 1998 and 1999.
Times, Sunday Times
A sharp partisan divide has compounded public suspicion of coronavirus vaccines, which had been seeded by antivaxers on social media.
Times,Sunday Times
The outright partisan divide has been extended into all aspects of society.
Times, Sunday Times
He said there had been times when the partisan divide had seemed too wide to cross, but in the end adversaries had put aside their differences.
Times, Sunday Times
political divide
It's the season for books on both sides of the political divide.
Times, Sunday Times
Things are just as bad on the other side of the political divide.
Times,Sunday Times
Most of these measures are renewed every year or two and have broad political backing from both sides of the political divide.
Times, Sunday Times
The news sparked tributes across the political divide.
The Sun
Congratulations poured in last night from across the political divide.
The Sun
social divide
You create a social divide and make it worse generation by generation.
Times, Sunday Times
And appealed to all sides of the social divide.
The Sun
There was no social divide in my antenatal workshops: we were all equal in the sight of the midwives, and the stronger for it.
Times, Sunday Times
It also risks accentuating the social divide between households with ample space, laptops and a good broadband connection and those without.
Times,Sunday Times
Far from it - the influence of private schools and recent trends towards private tutoring often further exaggerate the social divide.
Times, Sunday Times
straddle the divide
They reckon to straddle the divide between bistro and gastro cooking.
Times, Sunday Times
This episodic work demonstrates how capably the dancers straddle the divide between contemporary and classical vocabularies.
Times, Sunday Times
Gardeners straddle the divide between casual help and old-fashioned retainers.
Times, Sunday Times
Vivid paragraphs straddle the divide between prose and poetry.
Times, Sunday Times
Musically, the group straddled the divide between indie-rock and synth-pop with a supremely deft touch.
Times, Sunday Times
widen the divide
He said that the proposals would 'widen the divide between rich and poor', and would make the tax system more unfair.
Times, Sunday Times
This change would further widen the divide between commercial and non-commercial films.
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And the development of dauntingly specialist vocabularies only widens the divide.
Times, Sunday Times
The crisis also widened the divide within the government on the matter of the approach towards the resolution of the conflict.
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Translations:
Chinese: 分开, , 重大差异引发冲突的
Japanese: 分ける, ・・・を割る, 対立点
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