Shape vs Section - What's the difference?
shape | section |
The status or condition of something
Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
The appearance of something, especially its outline.
A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure.
Form; formation.
* 2006 , Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light :
(iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
*1918 , (Rebecca West), The Return of the Soldier , Virago 2014, p. 74:
*:‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape .’
To give something a shape and definition.
* 1932 , The American Scholar , page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
* Prior
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
* Shakespeare
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,
As nouns the difference between shape and section
is that shape is the status or condition of something while section is a cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.As verbs the difference between shape and section
is that shape is to give something a shape and definition while section is to cut, divide or separate into pieces.shape
English
Noun
(en noun)- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape .
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* contest shape * * in no shape to * * in shape * out of shape * shapeless * shapely * shapesmith * shape-shifter * shape-shifting * shipshape * take shape * the shape of things to come * whip into shapeSee also
*Verb
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner. }}
- (Shakespeare)
- Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.
Synonyms
* (give shape) form, moldDerived terms
* beshape * foreshape * forshape * misshape * overshape * shape upAnagrams
* * * 1000 English basic wordssection
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;- ¶