单词 | subdivider |
释义 | subdividern. 1. A person who (or organization which) subdivides something; (in later use) esp. (North American, Australian, and New Zealand) a person or company responsible for dividing land into smaller lots or parcels, typically for the construction of housing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] > subdivision > one who subdivides subdivider1648 1648 Mercurius Aulicus 3–10 Feb. sig. B2v Both in opinion and estate, by the great Parliament Dividers, and sub-dividers, of Law and Loyalty, Religion & Peace, this is the way. 1679 H. Dodwell Separation Churches from Episcopal Govt. xix. 21 Their own Separation cannot be excused; or if it may, it must be by such Arguments as may be urged unanswerably by Subdividers from themselves. 1739 W. Markham Gen. Introd. to Trade & Business (ed. 2) iii. 124 A Fraction is a Part or Parts of a Thing according to the Pleasure of the Divider or Subdivider thereof. 1825 Lancet 12 Feb. 184/1 Dividers and sub-dividers of diseases have greatly erred in principle by giving an abstract essence to every modification of fever. 1885 H. Seebohm Hist. Brit. Birds III. 252 When Nature's natural divisions are interfered with, the subdivider is obliged to fall back upon specific characters to diagnose his genera. 1889 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 527/1 It would thus seem to be absolutely necessary, in order that the crofter may enjoy a reasonable chance of retaining his holding, to free him from the incubus of the subdivider or squatter. 1929 C. A. Perry in Neighbourhood & Community Planning xii. 123/1 Only large subdividers and strong corporations will be able to plan and construct complete neighborhood units. 1963 J. Mitford Amer. Way Death ix. 125 The most avaricious real estate subdivider. 1973 H. D. Bosanquet Social Work in London, 1869–1912 p. xi The Social Science Association was the arch sub-divider of nineteenth century life into ‘departments’. 2001 E. Lank Mod. Real Estate Pract. in N.Y. (rev. ed.) xxiii. 380 By varying street patterns and clustering housing units, a sub-divider can dramatically increase the amount of open and recreational space in a development. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > a subdivision subdivisiona1450 subsection1621 subdichotomy1644 subdivider1654 specie1670 underpart1711 1654 J. Sheffield Rising Sun xiv. 111 The Sun..gives Law to day and night, the worlds first subdividers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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