1. 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"
is a kind of piece of writing, writing, written material, music
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
2. section(n = noun.object) - 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 kind of slice
is a part of microscope slide, slide
3. section(n = noun.location) - 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
has particulars: outskirts, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity, forbidden city
Derived form verb section1
4. 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 kind of part, portion
is a part of unit, whole
has particulars: bend, curve, dado, leaf, length, straight, straightaway, subdivision, subsection
Derived form verb section1
5. section(n = noun.group) - a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon;
is a kind of squad, team
is a part of platoon
6. 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"
is a kind of concept, conception, construct
is a part of whole
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
Derived form verb section1
7. section(n = noun.quantity) - a land unit equal to 1 square mile;
is a kind of square mile
8. section(n = noun.location) plane section - (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid;
is a kind of area, expanse, surface area
has particulars: cross section
9. 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
10. section(n = noun.group) - a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class;
is a kind of musical group, musical organisation, musical organization
is a part of orchestra, band
has particulars: brass, brass section, string section, strings, percussion, percussion section, rhythm section, reed section
11. section(n = noun.group) - a small army unit usually having a special function;
is a kind of army unit
12. 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"
is a kind of division
has particulars: academic department, business department, personnel, personnel department, personnel office, staff office, government department, payroll, payroll department, security, security department
13. section(n = noun.food) - a segment of a citrus fruit; "he ate a section of the orange"
is a kind of segment
is a part of citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit
Derived form verb section1
14. 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);
is a kind of cut, cutting
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
section(v = verb.contact) segment - divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
is one way to divide, part, separate
Derived forms noun section4, noun section6, noun section13, noun section3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
1. The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies. [1913 Webster]
2. 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]
3. 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]
4. A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign
5. A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase. [1913 Webster]
6. 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]
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
brass section, caesarean section, caesarian section, cesarean section, cesarian section, clarinet section, conic section, cross section, golden section, horizontal section, military intelligence section 5, military intelligence section 6, percussion section, plane section, quarter section, reed section, rhythm section, section eight, section gang, section hand, section man, sports section, string section, trumpet section, vertical section, violin section