Section vs Span - What's the difference?
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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,
The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
* Alexander Pope
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* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .
The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
(nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
(obsolete) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
(mathematics) the space of all linear combinations of something
To traverse the distance between.
To cover or extend over an area or time period.
* Prescott
To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
* Bible, Isa. xiviii. 13
(mathematics) to generate an entire space by means of linear combinations
(intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
(archaic, nonstandard) (spin)
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*:a giant pick-up truck span out of control during a stunt show in a Dutch town, killing three people
As nouns the difference between section and span
is that section is a cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something while span is the space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.As verbs the difference between section and span
is that section is to cut, divide or separate into pieces while span is to traverse the distance between.As an acronym SPAN is
suicide Prevention Advocacy Network.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
Etymology 1
(etyl) spannNoun
(en noun)- Yet not to earth's contracted span / Thy goodness let me bound.
- Life's but a span ; I'll every inch enjoy.
- The unsilent present is a time of evaporating attention spans ,
Etymology 2
Old English spannanVerb
(spann)- The suspension bridge spanned the canyon as tenuously as one could imagine.
- The parking lot spans three acres.
- The novel spans three centuries.
- World record! 5 GHz WiFi connection spans 189 miles. [http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/27/world-record-5ghz-wifi-connection-spans-189-miles/]
- The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
- to span''' a space or distance; to '''span a cylinder
- My right hand hath spanned the heavens.