{
    "term": "divide",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "divide",
            "heSheIt": "divides"
        },
        "pastSimple": "divided",
        "pastParticiple": "divided",
        "ingForm": "dividing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to separate into parts; to make something separate into parts",
            "sensetop": "divide into somethingdivide updivide something (into something)divide something up (into something)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The cells began to divide rapidly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The questions divide into two categories: easy and hard.",
                    "contextForm": "divide into something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "After lunch we divided up for group discussions.",
                    "contextForm": "divide up"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I divided the class into four groups.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something (into something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Divide the dough into four pieces."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book is divided into 11 sections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A sentence can be divided up into meaningful segments.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something up (into something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Railway enthusiasts divide neatly into two groups."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have divided the topics into three categories."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The study divided consumers into five groups."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Films tend to divide into two categories: ‘art-house’ and ‘commercial’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The performance is divided into six parts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children divided into three teams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country is divided up into nine regions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were randomly divided into three groups."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This report is divided broadly into two parts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "First, divide the class into two groups."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The city was divided into four sectors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Flimsy partitions divided up the gallery into claustrophobic rooms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We decided to divide the space with screens."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "split up",
            "topics": ["Biology"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["broadly", "roughly", "exactly"],
                "preposition": ["into"],
                "phrases": ["divide in two"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to separate something into parts and give a share to each of a number of different people, etc.",
            "sensetop": "divide somethingdivide something updivide something (up) between somebodydivide something (up) among somebody",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They could not agree on how to divide the land."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jack divided up the rest of the cash.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something up"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We divided the work between us.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something (up) between somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Profits were divided up among the staff.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something (up) among somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The money was divided equally among his sons."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The story is about a father who divides his property among his sons."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Space is divided according to the needs of individual departments."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the collection was divided among the city's museums."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They carefully divided up the cost of the vacations they took together."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The exhibition features the work of 60 artists, evenly divided between well-known and less-familiar figures."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "share (3)",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["equally"],
                "preposition": ["among", "between"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to use different parts of your time, energy, etc. for different activities, etc.",
            "sensetop": "divide somethingdivide something between A and B",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "As working parents we think carefully about how we divide our time.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He divides his energies between politics and business.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They divided their time between London and Boston."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They divide their time between New York and their ranch in New Mexico."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her mentor advised her to divide her efforts 80–20, with 80% going to research, and 20% to teaching."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children of divorced parents may divide their loyalties between them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He divides his year between the University of Houston and Florida State University."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["equally"],
                "preposition": ["among", "between"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to separate into two or more parts that lead in different directions",
            "sensetop": "divide into something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Where the path divides, keep right."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The river divides into several channels.",
                    "contextForm": "divide into something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Just past the bridge, the paths divide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a signpost where the road divides."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The nearest restaurant is located opposite, just before the road divides."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He overtook at the point where the road divides into two lanes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Here the river divides into four separate streams."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Streams divide and unite across the plain."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to separate two people or things",
            "sensetop": "divide A from B",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can it ever be right to divide a mother from her child?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The landowners were divided from the mass of poor peasants who lived in the surrounding area."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to be the real or imaginary line or barrier that separates two people or things",
            "sensetop": "divide something (off)divide A from B",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A fence divides off the western side of the grounds.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something (off)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The English Channel divides England from France.",
                    "contextForm": "divide A from B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A low wall divides the patio from the rest of the garden."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Britain is divided from the rest of Europe by the English Channel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the mountains which divide Europe from Asia"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "separate"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "to find out how many times one number is contained in another",
            "sensetop": "divide something by somethingdivide by something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "30 divided by 6 is 5 *(= 30 ÷ 6 = 5)*.",
                    "contextForm": "divide something by something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's easy to divide by ten.",
                    "contextForm": "divide by something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children are learning how to multiply and divide."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "to be able to be multiplied to give another number",
            "sensetop": "divide (something) into something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "5 divides into 30 6 times."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "to make people disagree",
            "sensetop": "divide somebody/somethingbe divided on/over something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **divide the nation/country**",
                    "contextForm": "divide somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This issue has bitterly divided the community."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The building **divides opinion** *(= some people like it and some do not)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party is **deeply divided** on this question.",
                    "contextForm": "be divided on/over something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to be evenly/sharply divided over the issue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The issue has divided the government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The presidential elections divided the nation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a country divided by war"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The case divided the New York art world at the time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a society that was divided along sectarian lines"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an issue that threatens to divide society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I will not allow this to divide our family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scholarly opinion is evenly divided on whether the portrait is of a Hellenistic prince or a Roman general."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "split (3)",
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["bitterly", "deeply", "seriously"],
                "phrases": [
                    "be divided about something",
                    "be divided on something",
                    "be divided over something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "to disagree",
            "sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Communities frequently divided along religious lines."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to keep control over people by making them disagree with and fight each other, therefore not giving them the chance to join together and oppose you",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a policy of divide and rule"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to divide something into two equal parts; to divide into two equal parts",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The country was split down the middle over the strike *(= half supported it, half did not)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Divide the cake down the middle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It would seem the community has divided down the middle, with some favouring expansion and some dead set against it."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪd/",
                "audio": "di/divide/divide__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪdz/",
                "audio": "di/divide/divides__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "di/divide/divided__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/divide/dividing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪd/",
                "audio": "di/divide/divide__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪdz/",
                "audio": "di/divide/divides__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪdɪd/",
                "audio": "di/divide/divided__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/divide/dividing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (as a verb): from Latin dividere ‘force apart, remove’. The noun dates from the mid 17th cent."
}