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What (who) is SECTIONS - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Sections; The Section; Section (mathematics); Section (disambiguation); Section (survey); Section (publishing); Section (books); Section of land
section
(sections, sectioning, sectioned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A section of something is one of the parts into which it is divided or from which it is formed.
He said it was wrong to single out any section of society for Aids testing...
They moulded a complete new bow section for the boat.
...a large orchestra, with a vast percussion section.
...the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
see also cross-section
2.
If something is sectioned, it is divided into sections.
It holds vegetables in place while they are being peeled or sectioned.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
3.
A section of an official document such as a report, law, or constitution is one of the parts into which it is divided.
...section 14 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968.
N-COUNT: usu N num
4.
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.
For some buildings a vertical section is more informative than a plan.
N-COUNT
5.
section
¦ noun
1. any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up.
N. Amer. a measure of land, equal to one square mile.
chiefly N. Amer. a particular district of a town.
NZ a building plot.
2. a distinct group within a larger body of people or things.
a subdivision of an army platoon.
Biology a secondary taxonomic category, especially a subgenus.
3. the cutting of a solid by or along a plane.
the shape resulting from cutting a solid along a plane.
a representation of the internal structure of something as if it has been cut through.
4. Surgery a separation by cutting.
5. Biology a thin slice of plant or animal tissue prepared for microscopic examination.
¦ verb
1. divide into sections.
2. Surgery divide by cutting.
3. Brit. commit (someone) compulsorily to a psychiatric hospital in accordance with a section of a mental health act.
Derivatives
sectional adjective
sectionalize or sectionalise verb
sectionally adverb
sectioned adjective
Origin
ME: from Fr. section or L. sectio(n-), from secare 'to cut'.
section
n.
division of a newspaper
1) the business; classified; news; sports; travel section
plane figure
(geometry)
2) a conical; cross; vertical section
group of instruments
3) a brass; percussion; string; woodwind section
4) in a section (to play in the woodwind section)
group
5) a cheering section (in a grandstand)
surgical cutting
6) an abdominal; cesarean section
area
7) a business; residential section
department
8) the political section (of an embassy)
part
9) in sections (the bookcases come in sections)
Wikipedia
Section
Section, Sectioning or Sectioned may refer to:
Examples of use of SECTIONS
1. A typical corpse can produce eight vertical cross–sections or 230 horizontal cross–sections.
2. While small sections of central Iraq are unstable, large sections have remained peaceful, but ignored.
3. Almost all restaurants and cafes permit smoking, and most smoking sections often dribble into nonsmoking sections, without enforcement.
4. Researchers first divided Allentown into sections.
5. This requires entirely separate sections for women.