Separate vs Subdivide - What's the difference?
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Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
Not together (with); not united (to).
To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
* Dryden
* Bible, Romans viii. 35
To cause (things or people) to be separate.
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(obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
* Bible, Acts xiii. 2
(usually, in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
(ambitransitive) To divide into smaller sections.
# (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
#* 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 3:
(ambitransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between separate and subdivide
is that separate is to divide (a thing) into separate parts while subdivide is to divide into smaller sections.As an adjective separate
is apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).As a noun separate
is anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.separate
English
Adjective
(-)- This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
- I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
Verb
(separat)- From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
- Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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- Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Derived terms
* separable * separately * separation * separational * separationism * separationistAntonyms
* annex * combineSee also
* disunite * disconnect * divide * split * reduce * subtractNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
* The spelling is (separate). *(term) is a common misspelling.subdivide
English
Verb
- This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it .
- Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.
- The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.