Section

Noun

 * 1) A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
 * 2) A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
 * 3) A part of a document.
 * 4) An act or instance of cutting.
 * 5) A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
 * 6)  An incision or the act of making an incision.
 * 7)  A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
 * 8)  A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

Synonyms

 * cutting, slice, snippet
 * division, part, slice, piece
 * volume

Antonyms

 * whole

Derived terms

 * cross section
 * dissection
 * bisection

Related terms

 * dissect
 * secant
 * sect
 * sectarian
 * sector
 * segment


 * bisect
 * insect
 * intersect
 * prosect
 * resect
 * trisect

Verb

 * 1) To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
 * 2)  To commit, as for mental health reasons.
 * 3) * 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-18388-8, page 45:
 * Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
 * 1) * Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ISBN 978-0-415-21155-0, page xiv:
 * The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
 * 1) * 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, ISBN 978-1-84747-023-2, page 5:
 * After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- ¶

Adjectives for Section
fresh; concluding; pointed; elongated; adjunctive; remote; identical; covered; rugged; rural; insurgent; progressive; benighted; geographical; colored; peaceful; pure; omitted; subsequent; luscious; internal.

Verbs for Section
break up into—s; combine—s; curtain off—; desert—; designate—; detach—; divide into —s; enlarge—; present—; rate—; split up into—s; unite—s; —constitutes; — join.

Thesaurus
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, zone

Etymology
From <  sectio: < sectus:, past participle of secare:.

Noun

 * Arabic: (qism),  (juz’)
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: snijding
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 部分 (ぶぶん, bubun)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: secționare, tăiere , secțiune, tăietură
 * Russian: сечение (sečénije), разрез (razréz) , отрезок (otrézok)
 * Scottish Gaelic: earrann, cuibhreann, roinn
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Romanian: parte, secție, sector, subdiviziune, despărțitură, segment, departament


 * Scottish Gaelic: cuid, pàirt, earrann, cuibhreann, roinn


 * Catalan: secció
 * Chinese:
 * Czech: ;
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, , , ; (newspaper); , ,
 * French: ; ,


 * German: ,
 * Italian: ;
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: earrann, roinn
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Romanian: incizie, tăiere, tăietură, secționare


 * Finnish:


 * : sekcio
 * : വിഭാഗം (vibhaagam)

Verb

 * Finnish:, , lohkoa
 * French:


 * Italian:

Anagrams

 * noetics
 * notices

Noun

 * 1) section all meanings

Etymology
From.

Anagrams

 * notices