Verb

To see someone or something as different from others.

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To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.

To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.

* 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. , PREFACE

THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.

(obsolete) To make to differ.

* Bible, 1 Cor. iv. 7 (Douay version)

Who distinguisheth thee?

Verb

(ambitransitive) To divide into smaller sections.

# (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.

This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it .

#* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 3:

Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.

(ambitransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions

* Dryden

The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.