Subdivided vs Subdivides - What's the difference?
subdivided | subdivides |
Having divisions that are themselves divided into smaller divisions
Divided into many small divisions
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(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 subdivides
is that subdivided is past tense of subdivide while subdivides is third-person singular of subdivide.As an adjective subdivided
is having divisions that are themselves divided into smaller divisions.subdivided
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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.