section

Definizione monolingua

section

section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned)

1. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
2. (UK) To commit, as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
   • 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-18388-8, 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.

   • a. 2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ISBN 978-0-415-21155-0, page xiv:

     The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.

   • 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, ISBN 978-1-84747-023-2, 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;- ¶ […]

section (plural sections)

1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
3. A part of a document.
4. An act or instance of cutting.
5. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
6. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
7. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
8. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

Definizione dizionario section

	sezione
	cutting, part cut out
	part of a document
	Ognuna delle parti in cui è divisa un'intera unità.
	A control that contains other controls.

divisione

	sezionare
	to cut

bene

fattoria

	articolo
	part of a document

	scorporare
	Dividere un'unità in parti.
	To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

branca

categoria

fascia

frasca

funzione

gruppo

impiego

lato

paragrafo

parte

pezzo

profilato

ramo

scompartimento

scomparto

segmento

servizio

settore

taglio

tappa

tratto

tronco

Altri significati:

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

(lateral) branch

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

surgery: incision or the act of making an incision

section (mil)

school (e.g. of learning)

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

An act or instance of cutting.

(UK) To commit, as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

section (of track, etc.)

end (of a task)

(traffic) lane

A part of a document.

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

(cut) end

a verse (e.g. in the Bible)

(taxonomical) section

part, piece or subdivision of anything

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

section (in drawing)

section (i.e. of text)

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

section (of an orange, etc.)