different between subdivision vs sliver

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

From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English sl?fan (as in t?sl?fan (“to split, split up”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sl?v.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sl?.v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Noun

sliver (plural slivers)

1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.

     A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).

   1. (regional US) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
2. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
3. (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
4. (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

Synonyms

• (long piece cut or rent off): shard, slice, splinter

Translations

See also

• slither

Verb

sliver (third-person singular simple present slivers, present participle slivering, simple past and past participle slivered)

1. (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

Anagrams

• Elvirs, Silver, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, silver, svirel