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Subdivided vs Subdivide - What's the difference?

subdivided | subdivide |

As verbs the difference between subdivided and subdivide

is that subdivided is (subdivide) while subdivide is (ambitransitive) to divide into smaller sections.

As an adjective subdivided

is having divisions that are themselves divided into smaller divisions.

subdivided

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having divisions that are themselves divided into smaller divisions
  • Divided into many small divisions

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (subdivide)

    • subdivide

    English

    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.