different between hunk vs section

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /h??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump +? -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.

Noun

hunk (plural hunks)

1. A large or dense piece of something.

   a hunk of metal

   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX

     "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."

2. (informal) A sexually attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
3. (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
4. (US, slang) A honyock.

Synonyms

• (large or dense piece): chunk, lump, piece
• (sexually attractive boy): beefcake

Derived terms

• hunky

Translations

See also

• bohunk

Etymology 2

Dutch honk (“the base in a game”)

Noun

hunk

1. (US) A goal or base in children's games.

References

• “hunk” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “hunk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

See Wiktionary:Entry layout for the Wiktionary style guide for sections

English

Etymology

From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”). More at saw.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: s?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /?s?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: sec?tion

Noun

section (plural sections)

1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
   1. (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

3. A part of a document.
4. An act or instance of cutting.
5. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
   1. (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
6. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
   1. (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
7. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
9. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
10. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
11. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
12. (category theory) A right inverse.
13. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
14. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
15. (US, historical) Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
16. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
17. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.

Synonyms

• (botany, zoology): sectio

• cutting, slice, snippet
• division, part, slice, piece
• volume

Antonyms

• whole

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (aviation): waterline, buttock line

Derived terms

• bisection
• dissection
• sectionman
• trisection

Related terms

Translations

Verb

section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned) (transitive)

1. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
2. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
3. (Britain) 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, 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, 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, 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;- […]

   Synonym: (Australia) schedule

4. (medical): To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
   • 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:

     "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."

   • 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:

     You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."

Translations

Further reading

• section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• section in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• section at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ecotins, noetics, notices

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin secti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k.sj??/

Noun

section f (plural sections)

1. section (all meanings)

Further reading

• “section” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• notices

Interlingua

Etymology

From secar +? -ion, alternatively borrowed from Latin secti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sek?ti?on/

Noun

section (plural sectiones)

1. (act of) cutting
2. (surgery) section (all meanings)
3. section
   1. separation by cutting
   2. portion, division, subdivision
   3. (natural history, military, etc.) section
4. (geometry, drawing, etc.) section

Derived terms

• dissection
• intersection
• resection
• trisection
• vivisection
• sectionar