section
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From Old French, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”).
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section (plural sections)
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- 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).
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
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cutting, part cut out
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part, piece or subdivision of anything
part of a document
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image that shows an object as if cut along a plane — see cross-section
surgery: incision or the act of making an incision
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section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned)
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- (UK) To commit, 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 978-0-415-18388-8, 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 978-0-415-21155-0, 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 978-1-84747-023-2, 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;- ¶ […]
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-18388-8, page 45:
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to cut
[edit] External links
- section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- section in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- section at OneLook Dictionary Search
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From Latin.
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section f. (plural sections)
- section (all meanings)
