Word Finder - section

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A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

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A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

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A part of a document.

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An act or instance of cutting.

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A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

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An incision or the act of making an incision.

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A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

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A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

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An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

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A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

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A right inverse.

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A piece of residential land; a plot.

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A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

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Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.

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The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.

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A sequence of rock layers.

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To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

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To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.

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To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

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Medical To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

The rubber is circular in section, and about 2 in.

Does any section of science consider time travel a possibility?

She couldn't see the poverty-stricken section of the city.

I almost cut this entire section from the book.

After a quick look at the sports section he tossed the paper aside and glanced at the bicycling magazine.

We could move the "By alphabet" section to another page and link to it from the home page.

Dubois's success strengthened him against the bitter opposition of a large section of the court.

Fred O'Connor strolled back to the room, his platter replenished, the garage sale section of the newspaper tucked beneath his arm.

This section is near the northern border of the arid Patagonian steppes.

The first series contained six essays, the most notable being that "On the office of a Chaplain," which throws much light on the position of a large section of the clergy at that time.

His policy of abandoning the land defence was unpopular with the land-owning section of the people, who from the walls of Athens could see their own property destroyed by the invaders.

Pierre de Saint Cloud, the writer of the fourth section of the romance, was evidently acquainted with the Historia de proeliis.

This is not a section about hope, ideals, wishes, or the brotherhood of all mankind.

Restaurants established a "smoking section," then some bold ones banned smoking altogether.

One section of the law expresses the fact that the weights of two substances, not necessarily elements, that are equivalent in one reaction, are often found to be equivalent in a number of other reactions.

If they fenced Alex's land as well, it would provide a combined area of a quarter section - 160 acres.

But if, using the shortest diameter of Loch Fyne, we apply these proportions to Walden, which, as we have seen, appears already in a vertical section only like a shallow plate, it will appear four times as shallow.

Dean rose to meet him and the two wandered to a quiet section of the park before Dean questioned him.

Malta and Gozo are the only islands of the Mediterranean which can be associated with this section, and, per contra, the mountain chain of north-west Africa belongs to Eurasia.

A more complete remedy was introduced by the Judicature Act 1873, which consolidated the courts of law and equity, and ordered that law and equity should be administered concurrently according to the rules contained in the 26th section of the act.

The rupture had not yet been made evident between the Girondist party and that section still more extreme, that of the Mountain.

A military organization may be quite correctly compared to a cone, of which the base with the largest diameter consists of the rank and file; the next higher and smaller section of the cone consists of the next higher grades of the army, and so on to the apex, the point of which will represent the commander-in-chief.

They reached the food section, and Deidre's attention shifted to the source of the scents.

They reached the trendy teahouse in the wealthy section of DC, Hannah still talking about Paris fashions.

Shipton cut a short section of rope and left it up there so it would look like someone cut it when he was part way to the bottom.

She carried the water to Princess and then crossed the tack room to the other section of the barn.

In a type built with vertical sections each division is complete in itself, and is not directly connected with the next section, but communicates with flow and return drums. A defective section may thus be left in position and stopped off by means of plugs from the drums until it is convenient to fit a new one in its place.

In the third and longest section, the line starts from a pillar erected in the Perez Rosales pass, near Lake Nahuel-Huapi, and follows the water-parting southward to the highest point of Mt.

Additionally, right below that is a section called, "What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?"

A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter.

The sun was warm and he walked with a slight limp but an easy stride, past the shops of the small central section to the west side of the quiet town.

Notwithstanding the abandonment of Christianity by a large section of the population after the Turkish conquest, the authority of the sultans was never effectively established, and succeeding centuries present a record of interminable conflicts between the tribesmen and the Turks, between the Christians and the converts to Islam, or between all combined and the traditional Montenegrin enemy.

Mendelssohn added a new section to this chapter by his German translation of the Pentateuch and other parts of the Bible.

The National Security Agency even has a website with a section called CryptoKids for "America's Future Codemakers & Codebreakers."

One might have expected to find YouTube making its cameo in the earlier "communication" section, but I deliberately moved it here.

The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up.

The beet sugar, fruit and other agricultural products of the surrounding and tributary section were valued in 1906 at about $20,000,000.

After the suspension of the Reflector in 1753, he edited in the New York Mercury the "Watch Tower" section (1754-1755), which became the recognized organ of the Presbyterian faction.

A big blue gun was pointing directly at Dean's mid section, out of sight of the others by the man's position.

The size of the boiler may be increased or diminished by the addition or subtraction of one or more sections; these, being simple in design, are easily fitted together, and should a section become defective it is a simple matter to insert a new one in its place.

In 1801 a "plan of union" proposed by the General Association (Congregational) of Connecticut was accepted by the General Assembly, and the work of home missions in the western section of the country was prosecuted jointly.

They are not like cups between the hills; for this one, which is so unusually deep for its area, appears in a vertical section through its centre not deeper than a shallow plate.

Twelve dollars later I was let off at a shabby red brick building in a section of town where no tour busses stop.

The third or Cuzco section extends 250 m.

The soldiers, of whom there are the most, form the lower section of the cone and its base.

The last section through the Andes was finished in 1910.

The individual numbers are connected by various relations, some of which are considered in this section.

With the intervening deserts this section extends over 200 m.

Lake Junin, or Chinchay-cocha, in the second section, is 36 m.

This service was opened to Iquitos on the 8th of July 1908, the first section between Puerto Bermudez and Massisea having been pronounced a success.