ALL meanings of section
sec·tion
S s - noun section separate part 1
- noun section column or pages of newspaper 1
- noun section area in a theatre 1
- noun section portion, slice: of cake 1
- noun section segment: of fruit 1
- noun section part of document 1
- noun section area of town 1
- noun section stretch of a track 1
- noun section part of population 1
- transitive verb section divide 1
- transitive verb section commit to mental institution 1
- noun section a part that is cut off or separated. 1
- noun section a distinct part or subdivision of anything, as an object, country, community, class, or the like: the poor section of town; the left section of a drawer. 1
- noun section a distinct part or subdivision of a writing, as of a newspaper, legal code, chapter, etc.: the financial section of a daily paper; section 2 of the bylaws. 1
- noun section one of a number of parts that can be fitted together to make a whole: sections of a fishing rod. 1
- noun section (in most of the U.S. west of Ohio) one of the 36 numbered subdivisions, each one square mile (2.59 sq. km or 640 acres), of a township. 1
- noun section an act or instance of cutting; separation by cutting. 1
- noun section Surgery. the making of an incision. an incision. 1
- noun section a thin slice of a tissue, mineral, or the like, as for microscopic examination. 1
- noun section a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane, showing its internal structure. 1
- noun section Military. a small unit consisting of two or more squads. Also called staff section. any of the subdivisions of a staff. a small tactical division in naval and air units. 1
- noun section Railroads. a division of a sleeping car containing both an upper and a lower berth. a length of trackage, roadbed, signal equipment, etc., maintained by one crew. 1
- noun section any of two or more trains, buses, or the like, running on the same route and schedule at the same time, one right behind the other, and considered as one unit, as when a second is necessary to accommodate more passengers than the first can carry: On holidays the New York to Boston train runs in three sections. 1
- noun section a segment of a naturally segmented fruit, as of an orange or grapefruit. 1
- noun section a division of an orchestra or band containing all the instruments of one class: a rhythm section. 1
- noun section Bookbinding. signature (def 8). 1
- noun section Also called section mark. a mark used to indicate a subdivision of a book, chapter, or the like, or as a mark of reference to a footnote. 1
- noun section Theater. one of a series of circuits for controlling certain lights, as footlights. 1
- noun section shape (def 12). 1
- verb with object section to cut or divide into sections. 1
- verb with object section to cut through so as to present a section. 1
- verb with object section Surgery. to make an incision. 1
- countable noun section A section of something is one of the parts into which it is divided or from which it is formed. 0
- verb section If something is sectioned, it is divided into sections. 0
- countable noun section A section of an official document such as a report, law, or constitution is one of the parts into which it is divided. 0
- countable noun section A section is a diagram of something such as a building or a part of the body. It shows how the object would appear to you if it were cut from top to bottom and looked at from the side. 0
- noun section a part cut off or separated from the main body of something 0
- noun section a part or subdivision of a piece of writing, book, etc 0
- noun section one of several component parts 0
- noun section a distinct part or subdivision of a country, community, etc 0
- noun section an area one mile square (640 acres) in a public survey, esp in the western parts of the US and Canada 0
- noun section a plot of land for building on, esp in a suburban area 0
- noun section the section of a railway track that is maintained by a single crew or is controlled by a particular signal box 0
- noun section the act or process of cutting or separating by cutting 0
- noun section a representation of a portion of a building or object exposed when cut by an imaginary vertical plane so as to show its construction and interior 0
- noun section a plane surface formed by cutting through a solid 0
- noun section the shape or area of such a plane surface 0
- noun section any procedure involving the cutting or division of an organ, structure, or part, such as a Caesarian section 0
- noun section a thin slice of biological tissue, mineral, etc, prepared for examination by a microscope 0
- noun section a segment of an orange or other citrus fruit 0