different between section vs separation

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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

English

Etymology

Attested in the 15th Century C.E.; borrowed from Old French separacion, from Latin separatio, separationem.Morphologically separate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

separation (countable and uncountable, plural separations)

1. The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.

   Synonyms: detachment, disjunction, division, rupture, severance; see also Thesaurus:separation

   Antonyms: annexation, combination, unification; see also Thesaurus:junction

2. The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
3. The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
   1. (law) An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.

      Synonym: divorce from bed and board
4. The place at which a division occurs.

   Synonyms: border, boundary, demarcation
5. An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.

   Synonyms: break, interstice; see also Thesaurus:interspace
6. An object that separates two spaces.

   Synonyms: barrier, separator
7. (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

Derived terms

See also

• division
• fission

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “separation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• antioperas, asperation