Clause vs. Section

Clausenoun

(grammar) A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.

Clausenoun

(grammar) A verb along with its subject and their modifiers. If a clause provides a complete thought on its own, then it is an independent (superordinate) clause; otherwise, it is (subordinate) dependent.

Clausenoun

(legal) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.

Clauseverb

To amend (a bill of lading or similar document).

Clausenoun

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

Clausenoun

A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

Clausenoun

See Letters clause or Letters close, under Letter.

Clausenoun

(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

Clausenoun

a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

Clause

In language, a clause is a constituent that links a semantic predicand (expressed or not) and a semantic predicate. A typical clause consists of a subject and a syntactic predicate, the latter typically a verb phrase, a verb with any objects and other modifiers.

Sectionnoun

A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

Sectionnoun

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

Sectionnoun

(music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

Sectionnoun

A part of a document.

Sectionnoun

An act or instance of cutting.

Sectionnoun

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

Sectionnoun

(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.

Sectionnoun

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

Sectionnoun

(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

Sectionnoun

(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

Sectionnoun

(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

Sectionnoun

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

Sectionnoun

(category theory) A right inverse.

Sectionnoun

(NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.

Sectionnoun

(Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Sectionnoun

(geology) A sequence of rock layers.

Sectionverb

To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

Sectionverb

(British) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

Sectionverb

To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

Sectionnoun

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

Sectionnoun

A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

Sectionnoun

A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character often used to denote such a division.

Sectionnoun

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.

Sectionnoun

A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.

Sectionnoun

A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign .

Sectionnoun

One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preëmption laws.

Sectionnoun

A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

Sectionnoun

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.

Sectionnoun

a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical);

Sectionnoun

a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope;

Sectionnoun

a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people;

Sectionnoun

one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;

Sectionnoun

a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon

Sectionnoun

one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

Sectionnoun

a land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side

Sectionnoun

(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

Sectionnoun

a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class

Sectionnoun

a small army unit usually having a special function

Sectionnoun

a specialized division of a large organization;

Sectionnoun

a segment of a citrus fruit;

Sectionnoun

the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)

Sectionverb

divide into segments;