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Subdivision vs Brach - What's the difference?

subdivision | brach |

As nouns the difference between subdivision and brach

is that subdivision is a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided; to separate something while brach is a hound, especially a female hound used for hunting.

subdivision

English

Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided; to separate something
    • Subdivide the sentence into pieces and understand it a bit at a time.
  • (countable) such a piece that has been divided
    • Work on one subdivision at a time.
  • (countable) a parcel of land that has been divided into lots
  • (countable) a group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area
    • They're putting in a new subdivision out past Black Ranch Road.

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    brach

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (archaic) A hound, especially a female hound used for hunting.
  • * 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vi :
    • Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, / Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
  • *, NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:
    • A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach , and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

    See also

    * brachet

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