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Subdivided vs Subdivides - What's the difference?

subdivided | subdivides |

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

English

Adjective

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

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (subdivide)

    • subdivides

    English

    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.