Section vs Property - What's the difference?
section | property |
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= 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).
# (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,
Something that is owned.
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, chapter=4, title= A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
Real estate; the business of selling houses.
The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
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, title= (label) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
An object used in a dramatic production.
(label) Propriety; correctness.
(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
(obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between section and property
is that section is a cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something while property is something that is owned.As verbs the difference between section and property
is that section is to cut, divide or separate into pieces while property is (obsolete) to invest with properties, or qualities.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
Alternative forms
* propretieNoun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}
Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- (Camden)
Synonyms
* (something owned) belongings, owndom, possession * (piece of real estate) land, parcel * (attribute or abstract quality of an object) attribute, feature, owndom * (object used in a dramatic production) prop * See also * See alsoDerived terms
* abandoned property * accidental property * bound property * chemical property * country property * essential property * hot property * intellectual property * lost property * man of property * mechanical property * metaproperty * mislaid property * personal property * physical property * private property * prop * propertied * property file * property ladder * property law * property line * property man * property master * property owner * property porn * property rights * property tax * propertyless * public property * qualified property * real propertyVerb
- (Shakespeare)
- They have here propertied me.