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SUBDIVIDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divide into smaller and smaller pieces

Example:

This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "subdivide" is one way to...):

carve up; dissever; divide; separate; split; split up (separate into parts or portions)

Verb group:

subdivide (form into subdivisions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

subdivider (someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites))

subdivision (the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form into subdivisions

Example:

The cells subdivided

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "subdivide" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Verb group:

subdivide (divide into smaller and smaller pieces)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

subdivision (the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A quantity of people or things treated or regarded as a group, especially when subdivided from a larger group.

(Batch, NCI Thesaurus)

Primary division of the sea that includes the whole mass of water subdivided into neritic and oceanic zones.

(Pelagic, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

In humans the granulocytes are also classified as polymorphonuclear leucocytes and are subdivided according to the staining properties of the granules into eosinophils, basophils and neutrophils.

(Granulocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

The striated muscle tissue is further subdivided into skeletal, visceral striated, and cardiac muscle.

(Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The main neocortical commissure of the cerebral hemispheres; it is subdivided into a genu, a rostrum, a body, and a splenium.

(Corpus Callosum, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Those mammalian proteins considered to be Canonical HMG proteins are now subdivided into 3 superfamilies: the HMGB (formerly HMG-1/-2) family, the HMGN (formerly HMG-14/-17) family, and the HMGA (formerly HMG-I/Y/C) family.

(Canonical HMG Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

There is no FIGO stage IIIC for cervical cancer; for endometrial cancer, FIGO stage IIIC is subdivided into stages IIIC1 and IIIC2; in FIGO stage IIIC1, there is regional metastasis to pelvic lymph nodes; for FIGO stage IIIC2, there is regional metastasis to para-aortic lymph nodes with or without metastasis to pelvic lymph nodes.

(FIGO Stage IIIC, NCI Thesaurus)