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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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Section
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Section has 14 senses
- section(n = noun.communication) subdivision - a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section" has particulars: lead, lead-in, lede, canto, above, sports section, article, clause, book, chapter, episode, spot, spot, insert, introduction, narration, close, closing, conclusion, end, ending, passage, mezuza, mezuzah, sura, exposition, obbligato, obligato, recapitulation, development
- section(n = noun.object) Array - a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope; "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue" is a part of microscope slide, slide
- section(n = noun.location) Array - a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people; "no section of the nation is more ardent than the South"; "there are three synagogues in the Jewish section" is a kind of area, country
- section(n = noun.artifact) segment - one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" is a part of unit, whole
- section(n = noun.group) Array - a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon; Array is a kind of squad, team
- section(n = noun.cognition) division, part - one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" has particulars: frame, beginning, middle, end, high point, component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient, chukka, chukker, frame, inning, game, bout, round, turn, first period, second period, final period, half, period, quarter, over
- section(n = noun.quantity) Array - a land unit equal to 1 square mile; Array is a kind of square mile
- section(n = noun.location) plane section - (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid; Array is a kind of area, expanse, surface area
- section(n = noun.group) discussion section - a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately; "a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course" is a kind of class, course, form, grade
- section(n = noun.group) Array - a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class; Array has particulars: brass, brass section, string section, strings, percussion, percussion section, rhythm section, reed section
- section(n = noun.group) Array - a small army unit usually having a special function; Array is a kind of army unit
- section(n = noun.group) department - a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury" has particulars: academic department, business department, personnel, personnel department, personnel office, staff office, government department, payroll, payroll department, security, security department
- section(n = noun.food) Array - a segment of a citrus fruit; "he ate a section of the orange" is a part of citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit
- section(n = noun.act) incision, surgical incision - the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation); Array is a kind of cut, cutting
is a kind of piece of writing, writing, written material, music
is a kind of slice
has particulars: outskirts, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity, forbidden city
Derived form verb section1
has particulars: bend, curve, dado, leaf, length, straight, straightaway, subdivision, subsection
is a kind of part, portion
Derived form verb section1
is a part of platoon
is a kind of concept, conception, construct
is a part of whole
Derived form verb section1
has particulars: cross section
is a kind of musical group, musical organisation, musical organization
is a part of orchestra, band
is a kind of division
is a kind of segment
Derived form verb section1
is a part of operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
has particulars: gastromy, perineotomy, laparotomy, orchotomy, sclerotomy, nephrotomy, thoracotomy, valvotomy, valvulotomy, phlebotomy, venesection, vasosection, vasotomy
Verb Section has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
Section, n. [L. sectio, fr. secare, sectum, to cut; akin to E. saw a cutting instrument: cf. F. section. See Saw, and cf. Scion, Dissect, Insect, Secant, Segment.].
- The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies. [1913 Webster]
- A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice. [1913 Webster]"It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections." [1913 Webster]"The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics." [1913 Webster]
- The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point. [1913 Webster]
- A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign
1913 Webster] - A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase. [1913 Webster]
- The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile. [1913 Webster]" In mechanical drawing, as in these Illustrations of a cannon, a longitudinal section (a) usually represents the object as cut through its center lengthwise and vertically; a cross or transverse section (b), as cut crosswise and vertically; and a horizontal section (c), as cut through its center horizontally. Oblique sections are made at various angles. In architecture, a vertical section is a drawing showing the interior, the thickness of the walls, etc., as if made on a vertical plane passed through a building." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Part; portion; division.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Section, n. & v.
--n.
1 a part cut off or separated from something.
2 each of the parts into which a thing is divided (actually or conceptually) or divisible or out of which a structure can be fitted together.
3 a distinct group or subdivision of a larger body of people (the wind section of an orchestra).
4 a subdivision of a book, document, statute, etc.
5 US a an area of land. b one square mile of land. c a particular district of a town (residential section).
6 a subdivision of an army platoon.
7 esp. Surgery a separation by cutting.
8 Biol. a thin slice of tissue etc., cut off for microscopic examination.
9 a the cutting of a solid by or along a plane. b the resulting figure or the area of this.
10 a representation of the internal structure of something as if cut across along a vertical or horizontal plane.
11 Biol. a group, esp. a subgenus.
--v.tr.
1 arrange in or divide into sections.
2 Brit. cause (a person) to be compulsorily committed to a psychiatric hospital in accordance with a section of a mental health act.
3 Biol. cut into thin slices for microscopic examination.
--n.
1 a part cut off or separated from something.
2 each of the parts into which a thing is divided (actually or conceptually) or divisible or out of which a structure can be fitted together.
3 a distinct group or subdivision of a larger body of people (the wind section of an orchestra).
4 a subdivision of a book, document, statute, etc.
5 US a an area of land. b one square mile of land. c a particular district of a town (residential section).
6 a subdivision of an army platoon.
7 esp. Surgery a separation by cutting.
8 Biol. a thin slice of tissue etc., cut off for microscopic examination.
9 a the cutting of a solid by or along a plane. b the resulting figure or the area of this.
10 a representation of the internal structure of something as if cut across along a vertical or horizontal plane.
11 Biol. a group, esp. a subgenus.
--v.tr.
1 arrange in or divide into sections.
2 Brit. cause (a person) to be compulsorily committed to a psychiatric hospital in accordance with a section of a mental health act.
3 Biol. cut into thin slices for microscopic examination.
Idiom
section-mark the sign (°) used as a reference mark to indicate the start of a section of a book etc.
Etymology
F section or L sectio f. secare sect- cut
THESAURUS
Section
KP, abscission, adjunct, airspace, allocate, allot, amputation, anacrusis, anastomotic operation, apportion, area, army, army group, article, back matter, bass passage, battalion, battery, battle group, belt, biotype, block, blood, bloodless operation, book, bourdon, bracket, branch, break up, bridge, brigade, burden, butchering, cadence, cadre, capital operation, caste, category, chapter, chopping, chorus, clan, class, clause, cleavage, cleave, clos, close, coda, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, compensating operation, component, confines, continental shelf, contingent, corneal transplant, corps, corridor, country, crescent operation, croft, cross section, cut, cut up, cutting, department, detachment, detail, development, dichotomy, district, divide, divide up, division, divvy, divvy up, dole, elective operation, element, emergency operation, enclave, enucleation, environs, estate, excision, exploratory operation, exposition, family, fascicle, fenestration operation, field, field army, field train, figure, file, fission, flying column, folderol, folio, forty, fraction, front matter, garrison, gathering, genotype, genus, grade, ground, group, grouping, harmonic close, head, heading, heart transplant, heartland, hinterland, installment, interlude, intermezzo, interval operation, introductory phrase, item, kidney transplant, kin, kingdom, kitchen police, kraal, label, laceration, land, leg, legion, level, livraison, locality, lot, major operation, maniple, measure, measure out, member, milieu, minor operation, moiety, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, mutilation, neighborhood, number, offshore rights, operation, order, organ transplant, organ transplantation, organization, ornament, outfit, page, pale, palliative operation, paragraph, parcel, parcel of land, parcel out, part, particular, partition, parts, passage, patch, percentage, period, phalanx, phrase, phylum, piece, pigeonhole, place, plat, platoon, plot, plot of ground, portion, position, posse, precinct, precincts, predicament, premises, purlieus, quad, quadrangle, quadrant, quarter, quota, race, radical operation, random sample, rank, rating, real estate, refrain, regiment, region, remainder, removal, rending, resection, resolution, response, ripping, ritornello, rubric, salient, sample, sampling, scission, sector, segment, sentence, separate, sept, serial, series, set, severance, share, sheet, signature, slashing, slice, slicing, soil, space, species, sphere, split, split up, splitting, squad, squadron, square, stage, stanza, statement, station, status, strain, stratum, subclass, subdivide, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subgroup, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, surgery, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, tactical unit, tailpiece, task force, tearing, terrain, territory, text, the knife, three-mile limit, title, tract, train, transplant, tribe, troop, tutti, tutti passage, twelve-mile limit, unit, variation, variety, verse, vicinage, vicinity, volume, wing, zoneROGET THESAURUS
Section
Book
N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.Disjunction
N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.Part
N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.Class
N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.Combatant
N combatant, disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent, competitor, rival, corrival, fighter, assailant, champion, Paladin, mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough, prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler, fighting-cock, game-cock, warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent, campaigner, veteran, swordsman, sabreur, redcoat, military man, Rajput, armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible, auxiliary, bersagliere, brave, garde-nationale, garde-royale, minuteman, auxiliary forces, reserve forces, reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater, guards, guardsman, yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops, janissary, myrmidon, Mama, Mameluke, spahee, spahi, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz, irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere, franctireur, tirailleur, bashi-bazouk, vietminh, vietcong, shining path, contras, huk, hukbalahap, mercenary, soldier of fortune, hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger, bushwhacker, free lance, companion, Hessian, hit man torpedo, soldier, levy, draught, Landwehr, Landsturm, conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies, infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier, Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder, officer, subaltern, ensign, standard bearer, spearman, pikeman, spear bearer, halberdier, lancer, musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher, grenadier, fusileer, archer, bowman, horse and foot, horse soldier, cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar, light dragoon, heavy dragoon, heavy, cuirassier, Foot Guards, Horse Guards, gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman, matross, sapper, sapper and miner, engineer, light infantry, rifles, chasseur, zouave, military train, coolie, army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad, piquet, picket, guard, rank, file, legion, phalanx, cohort, cloud of skirmishers, war horse, charger, destrier, marine, man-of-war's man, navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron, man-of-war, destroyer, submarine, minesweeper, torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer, patrol torpedo boat, PT boat, torpedo- catcher, war castle, H, M, S, battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, helicopter carrier, missile platform, missile boat, ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery, first- rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel, flagship, guard ship, cruiser, armored cruiser, protected cruiser, privateer, tender, store ship, troop ship, transport, catamaran, merchant marine.
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