Subdivided vs Subdivide - What's the difference?
subdivided | subdivide |
Having divisions that are themselves divided into smaller divisions
Divided into many small divisions
(subdivide)
(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 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
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(en adjective)Verb
(head)subdivide
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- 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.