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Meaning section meaning

What does section mean?
Definitions in simple English

section Noun

— A section of a thing or place is a part of it. The police closed one section of the road because of the accident.

section Verb

— If you section something, you divide it into parts.

section

— noun a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) he always turns first to the business section the history of this work is discussed in the next section — noun a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue — noun a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people no section of the nation is more ardent than the South there are three synagogues in the Jewish section — noun (= segment) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object a section of a fishing rod metal sections were used below ground finished the final segment of the road — noun a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon — noun (= part, division) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole the written part of the exam the finance section of the company the BBC's engineering division — noun a segment of a citrus fruit he ate a section of the orange — noun a small army unit usually having a special function — noun a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class — noun a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course — noun (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid — noun a land unit equal to 1 square mile — noun (= department) a specialized division of a large organization you'll find it in the hardware department she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury — noun (= incision) the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) — verb (= segment) divide into segments segment an orange segment a compound word

Synonyms section synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as section?

section English » English

part division department portion chapter segment piece branch paragraph compartment article unit sector clause group district area subdivision pigeonhole cut bit squad region passage fragment component slice share partition incision class zone ward place office cross section classification block speciality site side quarter profile point plane section period parcel joint fraction cutting

Topics section topics

What do people use section to talk about?
States Quantity Whole, complete

Part
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Language and thought Communication Language

Word
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Land, property
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Parts of a building
States

Parts of things

Conjugation section conjugation

How do you conjugate section?

section · verb

Examples section examples

How do I use section in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I asked for a seat in the no-smoking section.
I asked for a seat in the non-smoking section.
Do you have a non-smoking section?
Could we have a table in the non-smoking section?
Could we have a table in the smoking section?
You'll find that book in the historical section of the library.
Who's in charge of this section?
Mr Yamada is in charge of the personnel section.
The section chief accepted the proposal.
He works in the planning section.
He belongs to the planning section.
Could we have a table in a non-smoking section?
We'd like a table in the non-smoking section.
Please show me the way to the business section.
I asked for a seat in the smoking section.
The section chief made me work like a slave.
There are seven men and four women in my section.
The section chief seems to like abusing his authority.
He was promoted to section chief.

Movie subtitles

Your section has been secured.
I mean, if that happened in the beverage section, she'd be dead right now.
The only vacancies were in the woodwind section.
Go to the women's section.
But here is the ideal cattle raising section.
Now look, this is a map and diagram of the whole Cocoanut section.
Section.
Section 2-B.
We've been called in, as have Divisions 5 and 9. as well as Section 2-B.
Section 2-B?
Neville, you take the opposite section to the south.
Excuse me. Can you help me in section D? - What is it?
The lady in section D, sir.
And, perhaps, a cross section of you. despite the forced civility of this review of our Party. will return with courageous hearts to the days in which it was difficult to be a National Socialist.
Sorry, I'll have you accompany me in finishing it. No need. Your section has been secured.
A ticket and a half. Section.
Which section?
That's in section 10-A of my contract.
Article 6, section 5b.
There's a section up there simply crying for someone to go in. who has the time and money to give it.
Monsieur Gattard will continue with. second and third form French on Thursdays. which will replace Dr. Spitzer's science section. moved up to Friday afternoon.
Take your men and cut off the first section.
Have you the financial section of the Times, Ned?
Would you be so kind as to give me the want ad section of the newspaper?
Procellariiformes, west wing, section 4-A.
Back there is the diplomatic section.
He'll hear that section on the Willet dam.
Just let him continue being anxious for a while. Now he should be able to see that we are teasing Lee Jae Sin. The Royal Committee, in accordance with Article 14 Section 2 of the Royal Family Act, hereby selects Princess Lee Jae Sin for inheritance.
Happy birthday, Section Chief.
Try carrying it, Section Chief.
We only told the section chief of the bodyguards.
Now, right over here, this is the residential section.
Not under section 346 of our Code.
Under Section 729 it's a felony to possess a deadly weapon.
If he meant it as an insult I think you've got a very good suit under Section. 819, yes, 819.
I warn you under Section 541, difammation of character.
Section 428 provides and now I am under Section 513.

News and current affairs

His populist rhetoric and religious fundamentalism have alienated a large section of conservative-pragmatist clerics and their supporters.
Indeed, perhaps the most telling case in the widening political epidemic was a membership re-shuffle of the study section at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health that evaluates grants for studying workplace injuries.
Reportedly, some art sales today result in paintings merely being moved from one section of a storage vault to another, recalling how the New York Federal Reserve registers gold sales between national central banks.
Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the section of the IPCC report that contained the Himalayan error, admitted that he and his colleagues knew that the dramatic glacier prediction was not based on any peer-reviewed science.
It is as if the string section of the orchestra suddenly decided to play its own music, disregarding everyone else.
The report was drawn up by experts from almost all OAS member states, and was divided into two parts: an excellent analytical section, and a brief and somewhat exasperating chapter devoted to future scenarios.
A cross section of 40 poor and rich countries shows that there is a strong relationship between women's economic and social status and overall economic growth.
The media success of Olivier Besancenot, a 31-year-old representative of the most intransigent section of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist League, reflects the power of this dream.
Its value to Massachusetts is exemplified in the Commonwealth's post-independence state constitution, ratified in 1780, which includes a section about the university's function and boundaries.
Dangerfield based his diagnosis on a cross-section of institutions, politics, and personalities, set against the bitter class warfare of the time.
But no section of Ukraine is our enemy and none will be treated that way.
The Kissinger Associates lobbying group, whose Russian section is headed by Graham, feeds in to the Kissinger-Primakov working group, a quasi-private-sector effort, blessed by Putin, to deepen ties between Russia and the United States.
The HDP was handicapped by its inability to distance itself from the PKK, which a large section of the electorate regards as being responsible for the upsurge in domestic violence.
Access to literacy and to jobs in the government sector and modern professions was limited to a small section of the population usually belonging to the high castes.
This would need to be speedy, provide some assurance of objective assessment, and ideally generate strong concern across a wide cross-section of the international community.
That, in fact, was pretty much the message conveyed by a broad cross-section of senior officials at this year's CDF: Slowdown, yes; major policy response, no.
But one particular section of Sweden's population has never engaged in the pretense that there is a distinction between hatred of Israel and hatred of Jews.
The two groups are drawn from a cross-section of society.
The first section of the legislation, Title I, stipulates that all firms must be able to go bankrupt without causing large-scale damage to the broader financial system or the real economy.
But, beyond narrow party confines, opinion polls were exceptionally kind: a vast cross-section of the Israeli public wants Livni to lead.
The language, which appears in a section on energy, was apparently inserted to protect oil and gas interests from findings about their activities' impact on climate change.
Dangerfield based his diagnosis on a cross-section of institutions, politics, and personalities, set against the bitter class warfare of the time. Americans, however, have generally been averse to class warfare.

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