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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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??t/
• Homophone: sought (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Noun

sort (plural sorts)

1. A general type.
2. Manner; form of being or acting.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

4. (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).

5. (dated) Group, company.
6. (Britain, informal) A good-looking woman.
7. An act of sorting.

8. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

9. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
10. (mathematics) A type.
11. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.

12. (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sort.

Synonyms

• (type): genre, genus, kind, type, variety
• (person): character, individual, person, type
• (act of sorting): sort-out
• (in computing): sort algorithm, sorting algorithm
• (typography): glyph, type
• See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French sortir (“allot, sort”), from Latin sortire (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.

Verb

sort (third-person singular simple present sorts, present participle sorting, simple past and past participle sorted)

2. (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

   Synonyms: categorize, class, classify, group
4. (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

   Synonyms: order, rank

5. (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
8. (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
9. (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
11. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).

    Synonym: sort out

12. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.

    Synonym: sort out

    If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!

13. (transitive) To geld.

Usage notes

• In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in constructions like “I’ll get you sorted” or “Now that’s sorted” – in American and Australian usage sort out is used instead.

Derived terms

• re-sort, resort
• sorted
• sorting
• sort out

Translations

Further reading

• sort at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rost, rots, tors

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

sort f (uncountable)

1. luck

2. fortune

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sort” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?so??d?]

Adjective

sort

1. black (absorbing most light)
2. under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation

Inflection

Derived terms

• (illicitly undisclosed): sort arbejde, sorte penge, sort marked

Adverb

sort

1. under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation

Derived terms

• arbejde sort

See also

References

• “sort,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sors (“lot, fate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s??d?]

Noun

sort c (singular definite sorten, plural indefinite sorter)

1. sort, kind
2. quality
3. brand
4. (botany) cultivar

Declension

References

• “sort,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sorte.

Noun

sort (genitive sordi, partitive sorti)

1. kind, sort, brand

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Homophone: sors
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Old French sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

1. fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will)
2. lot (something used in determining a question by chance)
3. spell (magical incantation)

Derived terms

• le sort en est jeté
• mauvais sort
• tirage au sort
• tirer au sort

Related terms

• sorcier
• sorte
• sortir

Etymology 2

See sortir.

Verb

sort

1. third-person singular present indicative of sortir

Further reading

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

Friulian

Alternative forms

• sord (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin surdus.

Adjective

sort

1. deaf

Related terms

• sordine

See also

• mut

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ort]
• Rhymes: -ort

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shorts.

Noun

sort (plural sortok)

1. shorts (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees)

Declension

Synonyms

• rövidnadrág

Etymology 2

sor +? -t

Noun

sort

1. accusative singular of sor

Derived terms

• sort kerít

References

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sort, from Latin sors, sortem.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

1. (Jersey) fate

Synonyms

• destinné (“fate, destiny”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svartr; compare Danish sort

Alternative forms

• svart

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Adjective

sort (neuter singular sort, definite singular and plural sorte, comparative sortere, indefinite plural sortest, definite plural sorteste)

1. black (colour)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sorter, definite plural sortene)

1. a sort, kind or type

References

• “sort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sortar, definite plural sortane)

1. a sort, kind or type

References

• “sort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Plautdietsch

Noun

sort f (plural Sorten)

1. sort, kind, type, ilk, variety

Polish

Etymology

From French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Latin sors, sortem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?rt/

Noun

sort m inan

1. (colloquial) sort (type)

   Synonyms: gatunek, rodzaj

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) sortowa?, posortowa?, przesortowa?, wysortowa?
• (nouns) sortomierz, sortowacz, sortowaczka, sortownik, sortownica, sortownia

Related terms

• (noun) sorter
• (noun phrase) sortownik papierniczy
• (adjective) sortowniczy

Further reading

• sort in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French sorte.

Noun

sort n (plural sorturi)

1. sort, kind, variety

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

Noun

sort c

1. sort, kind

Declension

Synonyms

• slag

Anagrams

• Tors, orts, rost, rots, stor, tros