Section vs. Item
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;
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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;
Itemnoun
A distinct physical object.
Itemnoun
An object that can be picked up for later use.
Itemnoun
A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
Itemnoun
(psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
Itemnoun
A matter for discussion in an agenda.
Itemnoun
(informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
Itemnoun
A short article in a newspaper.
Itemnoun
(obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
Itemverb
(transitive) To make a note of.
Itemadverb
likewise
Itemadverb
Also; as an additional article.
Itemnoun
An article; a separate particular in an account; as, the items in a bill; he picked up four items at the drug store.
Itemnoun
A hint; an innuendo.
Itemnoun
A short article in a newspaper; a paragraph; as, an item concerning the weather.
Itemnoun
A topic or piece of information having the salacious character of gossip, especially a romantic relation between two people; as, I hear that the boss and his new secretary are an item.
Itemverb
To make a note or memorandum of.
Itemnoun
a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list;
Itemnoun
a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection;
Itemnoun
a small part that can be considered separately from the whole;
Itemnoun
an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;
Itemnoun
an individual instance of a type of symbol;
Itemadverb
(used when listing or enumerating items) also;
