chapter
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Alternative forms[edit]
- chaptre (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Middle English chapiter, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see chapiter and capital, which are doublets of chapter.
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Noun[edit]
chapter (plural chapters)
- One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- chapter of accidents
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I,
- "You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?"
- She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work.
- "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home."
- 1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm, Chapter 26,
- […] she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again.
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Translations[edit]
section in a book
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an administrative division of an organization
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External links[edit]
- chapter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- chapter in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Verb[edit]
chapter (third-person singular simple present chapters, present participle chaptering, simple past and past participle chaptered)
- To divide into chapters.
- To put into a chapter.
- (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- 2001, John Palmer Hawkins, Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany, page 117,
- If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
- 2006, Thomas R. Schombert, Diaries of a Soldier: Nightmares from Within, page 100,
- "He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army."
- 2001, John Palmer Hawkins, Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany, page 117,
