Section vs. Department
Sectionnoun
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
Sectionnoun
A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
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(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.
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(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
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(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
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(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
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(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.
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(NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.
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(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 .
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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;
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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;
Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
Departmentnoun
A subdivision of an organization.
Departmentnoun
One of the principal divisions of executive government
Departmentnoun
One of the divisions of instructions
Departmentnoun
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes. In France, a department is smaller than a region
Departmentnoun
(historical) A military subdivision of a country
Departmentnoun
(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
Departmentnoun
Act of departing; departure.
Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
Departmentnoun
Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
Departmentnoun
A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
Departmentnoun
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Departmentnoun
a specialized division of a large organization;
Departmentnoun
the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
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a specialized sphere of knowledge;
Departmentnoun
a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity
Departmentnoun
an administrative district in France and other countries
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an area of special expertise or responsibility
Departmentnoun
a specified aspect or quality
