different between subdivision vs skerrick

English

Etymology

From sub- +? division.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?bd?v???n/

Noun

subdivision (countable and uncountable, plural subdivisions)

1. (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
2. (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.

   Work on one subdivision at a time.

3. (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
4. (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.

5. (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.

Derived terms

• subdiv.

Translations

Verb

subdivision (third-person singular simple present subdivisions, present participle subdivisioning, simple past and past participle subdivisioned)

1. (uncommon) To separate something into smaller pieces.

Translations

French

Noun

subdivision f (plural subdivisions)

1. subdivision

English

Etymology

Origin unknown. Originally used in British dialect.

Pronunciation

Noun

skerrick (plural skerricks)

1. (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 117:

     When he reached this point in his madness, it disabled whatever skerrick of common sense he might have had even to save himself.

   • 2007, Kennedy Warne, Blue Haven, National Geographic (April 2007), 74,

     "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".

References

Anagrams

• Kerricks