Section vs Type - 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.
* {{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,
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
* 2002 , Pat Conroy, The Great Santini , page 4:
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
* 1872 , Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal , volume 3, page 116:
(printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
# (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
# (chiefly, uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
(biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.
Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
(biology) A blood group.
(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
(chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed'' theory). (''Note : this to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
* Types, theory of. V.N. Grishin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics . URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
To determine the blood type of.
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
* Tennyson
Section is a related term of type.
As verbs the difference between section and type
is that section is to cut, divide or separate into pieces while type is .As a noun section
is a cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.As an adjective type is
stereotypical.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
Noun
(en noun)Gemstones, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
- "I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."
- Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
- The headline was set in bold type .
- The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
- Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type -theoretic systems.
- Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types .
Synonyms
* (grouping based on shared characteristics) category, class, genre, group, kind, sort, tribe * (computing theory) data type * (printing) sort * See alsoDerived terms
* antitype * archetype * blood type * built-in type * composite type * cotype * ideal type * movable type * normal type * primitive type * structured type * typeface * type-safe * typesetter * typewriter * typography * typology * typology * user-defined typeVerb
(typ)- The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
- Let us type them now in our own lives.