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section
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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)
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- 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.
- (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
- (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (category theory) A right inverse.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
- (US, historical) Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- (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)
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (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
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:
- (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."
- 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
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)
- 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)
- (act of) cutting
- (surgery) section (all meanings)
- section
- separation by cutting
- portion, division, subdivision
- (natural history, military, etc.) section
- (geometry, drawing, etc.) section
Derived terms
- dissection
- intersection
- resection
- trisection
- vivisection
- sectionar
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sunder
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder (“special, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).
Adjective
sunder (comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
Derived terms
- sunderling
- sunderly
Etymology 2
From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundr?n? (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.
Verb
sunder (third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)
- (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
- (intransitive) To part, separate.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
- Such are we now.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- (Britain, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- sundry
Translations
Noun
sunder (plural sunders)
- a separation into parts; a division or severance
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
Derived terms
- sundrous
See also
- sunder tree
Anagrams
- Durens, Dusner, drusen, nursed
Old English
Alternative forms
- sundor
- synder
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sun.der/
Adverb
sunder
- apart, separate, private, aloof, by one's self
Synonyms
- ?ed?ledl??e
Derived terms
- onsundrum (“singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder”)
- sunderanweald m (“monarchy”)
- sunderfolgoþ m (“private office”)
- sunderfr?od?m, sunderfr?ols m (“privilege”)
- sunderl?pes (“separately”)
- sunderm?lum (“separately, singly”)
- sunderm?d f (“private meadow”)
- sunderst?w f (“special place”)
Related terms
- ?sundran, ?sundrian (“to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder”)
- ?syndrung f (“division”)
- sundrian (“to separate, sunder”)
See also
- sundor
- synder
References
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sunder”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sundor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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