I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cell divides
▪ White blood cells divide rapidly.
be divided into chapters
▪ The book is divided into ten chapters.
cut/divide etc sth into pieces
▪ She cut the cake into four equal pieces.
▪ Chop the potato into bite-sized pieces.
digital divide
divide a nation (=make people in a nation disagree)
▪ The war has divided the nation.
divide one number by another
▪ You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
divided along...lines
▪ The community remains divided along religious lines.
divided highway
divided loyalties (=when you feel that you should be loyal to two people, groups etc)
▪ She felt divided loyalties, having friends on both sides of the dispute.
divide/split sth in half
▪ Divide the dough in half.
divide/split sth into categories
▪ The exhibition of 360 paintings is divided into three categories.
divide/split/share sth fifty-fifty
▪ The companies split the profits fifty-fifty.
dividing line
▪ What’s the dividing line between normal drinking and addiction?
dividing line
▪ The dividing line between luxuries and necessities is constantly changing.
opinion is divided as to/on/over sth (=people have different opinions about it)
▪ Opinion was divided as to whether the program will work.
stand united/divided (=agree or disagree completely)
▪ He urged the whole community to stand united and to reject terrorism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ It has deeply divided mid-green leaves that flare to wild, improbable scarlet.
▪ Still, the report and public hearing made plain that the subcommittee had been deeply divided over key points.
▪ Cancer experts are deeply divided amongst themselves about the percentage of cancers that can be attributed to environmental factors.
▪ The city had strong Southern leanings and politically was deeply divided.
▪ The justices are deeply divided on such issues as abortion, affirmative action and the separation of church and state.
equally
▪ Fianna Fáil appeared to be equally divided on the issue.
▪ Top with croissant cubes, dividing equally.
▪ The residue of the estate was divided equally among all Mr Farrington's first cousins living at his death.
▪ It essentially mediated between the sharply contrasting views of the other eight justices, who divided equally on the issue of quotas.
▪ If twins are borne, both with a disability, then the sum insured will be divided equally between them.
▪ Pour custard over chocolate and croissants, dividing equally.
▪ Fees and expenses would be divided equally between them.
▪ Yet scarce athletic moneys must be equally divided between male and female teams.
evenly
▪ Staff seemed evenly divided - we received some smiles but also caught some rather unsavoury glances.
▪ And 86 to 90 percent comes from vehicle exhaust, evenly divided between diesel and gasoline engines.
▪ The large crowd at the meeting was nearly evenly divided between those supporting the ban and those against.
▪ Yocum may have been helped by the fact that the chamber audience was more evenly divided in allegiance.
over
▪ Groups were continually dividing over minor points of doctrine.
▪ Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle?
▪ Above all, they were divided over whether the emphasis should be placed upon political or economic issues.
▪ The purity movement was itself divided over the new proposals.
▪ Parents are divided over the decision to separate the children.
▪ The Government is also understood to be divided over whether the increase in base rates will provoke a recession.
▪ In the early years of the nineteenth century methodists had divided over the matter of their relationship with the Established Church.
▪ Read in studio People in a village that hasn't got its own graveyard are divided over plans to create one.
sharply
▪ Opinion about Ken Livingstone divided sharply.
▪ He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests.
▪ Its sharply divided report now is scheduled to be released next month.
▪ Beyond the financial problems, there is new concern that historically tolerant California is developing a culture sharply divided along racial lines.
▪ Northern opinion was sharply divided, with party lines much in evidence.
■ NOUN
city
▪ This divides the city into quarters and obstructs cross-core traffic.
▪ One such was divided Berlin, the city where so much of the Cold War drama had taken place.
▪ Chicago was the same divided city the day he left as it had been before he arrived.
▪ How the money will be divided among cities and states has not been determined, according to an administration official.
▪ In the early days after the war, Berlin was not the closed, divided city it became later.
▪ The campaign was bitter, dividing the city of 68, 000.
class
▪ Amongst themselves the Zuwaya did not divide into classes, nor did any inter-tribal division mark a class division.
▪ Make as many photocopies as you need and divide the class into four rocket teams.
▪ I divided my classes into rows and asked each row to pick a group leader.
▪ On the basis of these laboratory studies, meteorites have been divided into three main classes.
▪ It successfully produces delinquents, creating a criminal section of the population and thereby dividing the subordinate classes into mutually antagonistic fractions.
▪ Any apparent fragmentation is a ruling class stratagem designed to divide exploited classes which develop revolutionary or reformist consciousness.
community
▪ He had a strong commitment to building bridges between the divided community here.
▪ He knew, as we all know, that educating children in sectarian schools divides the community.
▪ Roads can not only ruin the countryside, but also divide communities.
country
▪ They are divided by country, and the schools are hung chronologically.
▪ Economists can not so easily divide the country into two districts to perform similar tests.
▪ They would turn the clock back to policies that impoverished and divided our country.
▪ We probably all were cursing our miserable fate of living in a divided country.
▪ The book is divided into country reports.
▪ Both Democrats and Whigs wanted to gloss over sectional differences and cement party loyalties, not divide the country.
▪ We need to examine the issues that bind and divide this country.
▪ Freezing minority voters into permanent isolated camps accelerates the political polarization that now divides the country.
issue
▪ But the thorny issues that divided the main trading powers at Seattle appear to be largely unresolved.
▪ But the painful stalemate wrought on this issue by divided government in Washington compelled a new approach.
▪ Bismarck used two issues to divide the liberals and unite his new majority: protectionism and the suppression of the Social Democrats.
▪ In their terms they debated the very issues that divided Calvinists from Arminians.
▪ We need to examine the issues that bind and divide this country.
▪ Self-interest now propels both Clinton and Republican leaders in Congress to reach accommodation on issues that long have divided them.
▪ Opinion on the nuclear issue is divided and other arguments are involved too, for example economic considerations.
▪ Transaction security issues can be divided into two types: data and message security.
nation
▪ Consequently, developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations.
▪ It would seem cruel to watch clean rivers flowing sweetly through a heartless and divided nation.
▪ This is a divided nation, where the fault-lines are fresh, sharp and deep.
number
▪ At the other extreme were open villages where the land was divided among a large number of freeholders and smallholders.
▪ She can not add or subtract or multiply or divide even the simplest numbers in her head.
▪ The daily rate is the appropriate weekly rate divided by the number of qualifying days in the week. 5.
▪ It is computed as the sum of the values divided by the number of observations.
▪ Each time the cells divide, the number of cells doubles.
▪ So, divide the number of degrees of turn by three to get the time.
▪ Next, divide the weight number by the height number.
▪ The debris scores were totalled and divided by the number of surfaces scored to obtain the debris index.
opinion
▪ Writing Many of the things people say and write can be divided into facts and opinions.
▪ Here is where the most important split of all divides expert opinion.
▪ She has repudiated policies associated with previous Conservative leaders and has divided public opinion.
▪ We were all divided in opinion as to what was coming.
▪ There is hardly a figure in public life who so divides public opinion as Woodhead.
party
▪ That is wholly laudable, and I suspect that it does not divide the parties.
▪ It is closely divided between the parties, and there are divisions among Republicans.
▪ The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines.
▪ He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests.
▪ But at other times it may be very difficult to single out policy issues that divide the parties.
▪ The upshot for the Republicans is that they remain a divided party.
▪ Seats are divided between the parties according to the proportion of the vote they win in the constituency.
▪ Communists catapulted from 45 to 157 seats in the 450-seat Duma to dominate a fractious chamber divided by eight political parties.
section
▪ The asset section of the balance sheet is divided into two major sections: current assets and fixed assets.
▪ The presentation was divided into three sections, the first being instrumental.
▪ Queue up trellises rather than bushes to divide a garden into sections or to provide privacy.
▪ Now she cut the skin, peeled it back carefully, divided the orange into sections.
▪ Like all Orthodox churches it was divided into three sections.
▪ The results are divided into two main sections.
type
▪ He concluded that legal processes could be divided into two contrasting types.
▪ Most calling plans can be divided into three types.
▪ The graves are divided into several types.
▪ These are divided into two types.
▪ The crust can be divided into two types, oceanic and continental.
world
▪ I didn't mean to divide the world into black and white, you know.
▪ But one of two new rulings deemed experimental for one season, is dividing the rugby world.
▪ In terms of ancient civilisations food experts tend to divide the world into three parts.
▪ I simply stared into her eyes through the layer of toughened glass which divided her world from mine.
▪ Sadly the evidence of such attempts to divide the world in this matter are all to clear to see.
▪ Botanists will divide the world of plants into hundreds of thousands of different species.
■ VERB
remain
▪ The two sides remained divided on the issue of nuclear weapons.
▪ The upshot for the Republicans is that they remain a divided party.
▪ Problems and Method Critical opinion remains divided over Paul Nizan.
▪ None the less, judicial opinion about the use of cameras still remained divided after the Scopes trial.
▪ And both contributors and the general public remain suspicious and divided about public financing of presidential and congressional elections.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divide/split sth down the middle
▪ The vote was split right down the middle.
▪ We split you down the middle.
the great divide
▪ A handful of people fell between the cracks of the Great Divide.
▪ She is still on the human side of the Great Divide.
▪ The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful.
▪ These guys are only Caspers; the real monsters are still breathing on this side of the great divide.
▪ Thus was born the Great Divide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 36 divided by 2 is 18.
▪ A busy highway divides one half of the town from the other.
▪ Cancer cells divide rapidly.
▪ He said that dividing up the company would make the units more profitable.
▪ If you divide twenty by four, you get five.
▪ It is easier to divide by 10 than by 12.
▪ Only a thin partition divides the room.
▪ Some of the big old houses have been divided into apartments.
▪ The Berlin Wall used to divide East and West Berlin.
▪ The chapel is divided from the rest of the church by a screen.
▪ The choice of a new rabbi has divided the entire congregation.
▪ The election campaign was bitter, dividing the city.
▪ The issue dividing the Church was the question of women priests.
▪ We divided the pizza into three and had a slice each.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between 2000 and 2015, well-educated, well-off Californians had more to bring them together than to divide them.
▪ Clerical wives were divided into those who wore hats on principle and those who, on principle, did not.
▪ Fairly soon, the group will be divided up into pairs for free sparring.
▪ Mattress matters Conventional mattresses are divided into interior-sprung and foam models.
▪ So it divided some of the spoils that resulted from the decision.
▪ The school case presents a church-state dispute, the kind that has closely divided the justices for more than two decades.
▪ The unfertilised egg cell began to divide to produce embryos that sometimes developed well.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cultural
▪ Perhaps the cultural divide was emphasized by being lovers and she quickly found she had nothing to say to him.
▪ In the space of a few moments one crossed a cultural divide now generations deep.
▪ At the edges are the two sharp tails of the cultural and social divide.
▪ Placements provide a simple yet powerful mechanism for developing understanding and stimulating change through addressing the heart of the cultural divide.
great
▪ This great divide can not be bridged by turning the clock back.
▪ There is a great divide between ambiguity and vagueness.
▪ These guys are only Caspers; the real monsters are still breathing on this side of the great divide.
▪ The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful.
▪ By 2015, two populations, composed of very different ethnic groups, faced each other as adversaries across a great divide.
political
▪ The paramilitary organisations, on either side of the political divide, remain active and hard to penetrate.
▪ Because both sides of the political divide are benefiting from the traffic, the issue is brushed under the carpet.
racial
▪ The offspring of such a union are never quite accepted - on either side of the racial divide.
▪ Some would call it a racial divide.
▪ Similarly, the racial divide may be changing in the suburbs.
▪ From his side of the racial divide, the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
social
▪ The port had two sharply contrasting social divides, on either side of the harbour.
▪ One legitimate fear is that more religious schools will deepen social divides.
▪ This is now the essential social divide.
▪ More than 1000 men and women were interviewed across all age, social and regional divides.
▪ At the edges are the two sharp tails of the cultural and social divide.
■ VERB
bridge
▪ Thankfully, efforts are already under way to bridge the digital divide.
▪ There are a couple of fudge options at hand, but neither entirely bridges the divide.
cross
▪ The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful.
▪ It took an almost superhuman intuition to know when it was right and proper to cross the divide.
▪ In the space of a few moments one crossed a cultural divide now generations deep.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Recently the divide between the two sides has widened.
▪ The Continental Divide runs along the length of the Rocky Mountains.
▪ The racial divide between the city and its suburbs is deepening.
▪ There is still a great economic and political divide between the east and the west of the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From his side of the racial divide, the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
▪ Meanwhile, the divide between rich and poor has never been greater.
▪ On a brighter note, the survey indicates that the North-South divide is continuing to narrow.
▪ The concept of a north-south divide was always too simplistic and sweeping.
▪ The offspring of such a union are never quite accepted - on either side of the racial divide.
▪ There are a couple of fudge options at hand, but neither entirely bridges the divide.
▪ There is no hard-and-fast divide between water-breathing and air-breathing animals.