Session vs. Section

Sessionnoun

A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.

Sessionnoun

A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

Sessionnoun

(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

Sessionnoun

(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.

Sessionnoun

(obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

Sessionnoun

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Sessionnoun

(education) An academic term.

Sessionverb

(music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Sessionnoun

The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

Sessionnoun

The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.

Sessionnoun

Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.

Sessionnoun

a meeting for execution of a group's functions;

Sessionnoun

the time during which a school holds classes;

Sessionnoun

a meeting devoted to a particular activity;

Sessionnoun

a meeting of spiritualists;

Sessionnoun

a meeting of an official body, especially a legislature, council, or court of law, to conduct its business

Sessionnoun

a period during which an official body meets regularly to conduct its business

Sessionnoun

the part of a year or of a day during which teaching takes place in a school or college.

Sessionnoun

a period devoted to a particular activity

Sessionnoun

a period of recording music in a studio, especially by a session musician

Sessionnoun

a period of heavy or sustained drinking

Sessionnoun

the governing body of a Presbyterian Church.

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;