section
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
Noun
section (plural sections)
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- A part of a document.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (category theory) A right inverse.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land usually a quarter of an acre, a plot.
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- (aviation): waterline, buttock line
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Translations
cutting, part cut out
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part, piece or subdivision of anything
part of a document
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act or instance of cutting
image that shows an object as if cut along a plane — see cross-section
surgery: incision or the act of making an incision
(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon
(category theory) A right inverse
(New Zealand) A piece of residential land usually a quarter of an acre, a plot
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Verb
section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned)
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- (UK) 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.
- 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.
- a. 2000, 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.
- 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;- ¶ […]
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-18388-8, page 45:
Translations
to cut
External links
- section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- section in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- section at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin.
Noun
section f (plural sections)
- section (all meanings)