What is the difference between section and division?
section | division | Synonyms |
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
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An act or instance of cutting.
A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
# (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
(senseid) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
(category theory) A right inverse.
(NZ) A piece of residential land usually a quarter of an acre in size; a plot.
(label) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
(British) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons.
* 1998 , Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997 , Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-18388-8,
* Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice , Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ISBN 978-0-415-21155-0,
* 2006 , Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness , Chipmunkapublishing, ISBN 978-1-84747-023-2,
(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
A section of a large company.
(biology, taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio ) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants]] or [[fungus, fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
(UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
Division is a synonym of section.
Division is a hyponym of section.
In military terms the difference between section and division
is that section is a group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon while division is a formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.As nouns the difference between section and division
is that section is a cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something while division is the act or process of dividing anything.As a verb section
is to cut, divide or separate into pieces.section
English
(wikipedia section)Noun
(en noun)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
Synonyms
* (sense) sectio * cutting, slice, snippet * division, part, slice, piece * volumeAntonyms
* wholeCoordinate terms
* (aviation) waterline, buttock lineDerived terms
* cross section * dissection * bisection * quarter section * section road * section gridVerb
(en verb)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.
page xiv:
- The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
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;- ¶
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English
(wikipedia division)Noun
- I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
- Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.