divide: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big, deep, great, sharp
▪ growing
▪ north-south, etc.
▪ class, cultural, economic, ethnic, gender, generational, ideological, political, racial, religious, sectarian, social
▪ partisan (esp. AmE), party
▪ digital
▪ the digital divide between people with access to technology and those without
VERB + DIVIDE
▪ create
▪ widen
▪ policies which have widened the divide between rich and poor
▪ close, narrow
▪ bridge, cross, straddle
▪ advice on bridging cultural divides
▪ It's a friendship which crosses the divide of social class.
▪ a style which straddles the divide between classic and modern
▪ address
▪ attempts to address the racial divide in this country
DIVIDE + VERB
▪ widen
▪ narrow
▪ open, open up
▪ separate sth
▪ a divide separating those who have access to computers and those who don't
PREPOSITION
▪ divide between
▪ the sharp divide between rich and poor regions
▪ divide in
▪ The leader's speech aimed to close the embarrassing divide in party ranks.
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
1 separate into parts
ADVERB
▪ broadly, roughly
▪ This report is divided broadly into two parts.
▪ exactly
▪ clearly
▪ conveniently, neatly
▪ Vegetarians divide neatly into two groups.
▪ evenly
▪ arbitrarily, randomly
▪ They were randomly divided into three groups.
PREPOSITION
▪ into
▪ The children divided into three teams.
PHRASES
▪ divide in two
▪ the point where the river divides in two
2 share
ADVERB
▪ equally
PREPOSITION
▪ among
▪ The money was divided equally among his sons.
▪ between
▪ They divided their time between London and Boston.
3 cause disagreement
ADVERB
▪ bitterly, deeply, seriously, sharply
▪ This issue has bitterly divided the community.
▪ increasingly
▪ closely, evenly
▪ ethnically, politically, racially
▪ The fragile peace has deteriorated in this ethnically divided city.
PHRASES
▪ be divided about sth, be divided on sth, be divided over sth
▪ Board members were deeply divided on the issue.
Divide is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑cell, ↑gulf, ↑line, ↑partition, ↑path, ↑watershed
Divide is used with these nouns as the object: ↑booty, ↑country, ↑electorate, ↑nation, ↑number, ↑spoils, ↑vote, ↑world