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subdivision
English
Etymology
From sub- +? division.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?bd?v???n/
Noun
subdivision (countable and uncountable, plural subdivisions)
- (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- (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.
- (Philippines) A gated community.
- 1999, Vicente L. Rafael, Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam, SEAP Publications (?ISBN), page 81:
- ... By the 1970s, cattle rustling had fallen by the wayside, as tractors replaced carabaos and industrial estates and residential subdivisions supplanted rice fields as the mainstays of Cavite's suburban northern towns.
- 2014, Rodelio B. Carating, Raymundo G. Galanta, Clarita D. Bacatio, The Soils of the Philippines, Springer Science & Business (?ISBN), page 51:
- As the farms give way to the residential subdivisions and industrial estates, the centuries-old traditional Filipino houses, slightly raised above grounds and standing on stilts, are abandoned in the quest for more living space.
- 1999, Vicente L. Rafael, Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam, SEAP Publications (?ISBN), page 81:
Derived terms
- subdiv.
Translations
Verb
subdivision (third-person singular simple present subdivisions, present participle subdivisioning, simple past and past participle subdivisioned)
- (uncommon) To separate something into smaller pieces.
Translations
French
Noun
subdivision f (plural subdivisions)
- subdivision
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clause
English
Etymology
From Middle English clause, claus, borrowed from Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa (Latin diminutive clausula (“close, end; a clause, close of a period”)), from Latin clausus, past participle of claudere (“to shut, close”). See close.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kl??z/
- Rhymes: -??z
- Homophone: claws
Noun
clause (plural clauses)
- (grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
- (grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.
- However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
(43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?]
The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty.
- However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following:
- (law) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
Usage notes
In “When it got dark, they went back into the house”, “When it got dark” is a dependent clause within the complete sentence. The independent clause “they went back into the house” could stand alone as a sentence, whereas the dependent clause could not.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- close
Translations
Verb
clause (third-person singular simple present clauses, present participle clausing, simple past and past participle claused)
- (transitive, shipping) To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).
Further reading
- clause in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- clause in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Caelus, secula
French
Etymology
From Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa.
Noun
clause f (plural clauses)
- clause
Latin
Participle
clause
- vocative masculine singular of clausus
Middle English
Alternative forms
- clawse, claus
Etymology
From Old French clause, from Medieval Latin clausa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?klau?z(?)/
Noun
clause (plural clauses)
- sentence, clause
- statement, line (of a text)
- writing, text, document, letter
- A section or portion of a text; a part of a series of quotes
- (law) A clause, term, or consideration; a section in a legal document.
Descendants
- English: clause
References
- “clause, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
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