SECTION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SECTION?

Need another word that means the same as “section”? Find 50 synonyms and 30 related words for “section” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Section” are: subdivision, department, incision, plane section, division, part, discussion section, segment, component, piece, portion, length, element, module, unit, constituent, bit, slice, fraction, fragment, chapter, subsection, passage, clause, act, scene, episode, instalment, district, quarter, sector, zone, precinct, borough, locality, neighbourhood, side, plot, patch, tract, area, allotment, branch, wing, compartment, commit, certify, hospitalize, institutionalize

Section as a Noun

Definitions of "Section" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “section” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up.
• A separation by cutting.
• A measure of land, equal to one square mile.
• A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical.
• A specialized division of a large organization.
• A group of players of a family of instruments within an orchestra.
• A small army unit usually having a special function.
• The area created by a plane cutting through a solid.
• A secondary taxonomic category, especially a subgenus.
• A distinct group within a larger body of people or things.
• A specified military unit.
• A particular district of a town.
• A thin slice of plant or animal tissue prepared for microscopic examination.
• A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people.
• The cutting of a solid by or along a plane.
• A land unit equal to 1 square mile.
• A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class.
• A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately.
• A building plot.
• The shape resulting from cutting a solid along a plane.
• A subdivision of an army platoon.
• A relatively distinct part of a book, newspaper, statute, or other document.
• One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.
• (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid.
• A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon.
• A segment of a citrus fruit.
• A representation of the internal structure of something as if it has been cut through vertically or horizontally.
• One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
• The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation.
• A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope.

Synonyms of "Section" as a noun (45 Words)

act	A document attesting a legal transaction. Her one woman poetry act.
allotment	A plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers. The allotment of equity securities.
area	A part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve. It was a closed area of employment.
bit	The cutting part of a drill usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press. In just a bit.
borough	An English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament.
branch	A part of a forked or branching shape. The Germanic branch of Indo European languages.
chapter	A local group of Hell’s Angels. The people are about to begin a new chapter in their history.
clause	A particular and separate article, stipulation, or proviso in a treaty, bill, or contract.
compartment	A division of a ship’s hull. A first class compartment.
component	An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system. Hydrogen is a component of all organic compounds.
constituent	A word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction. The essential constituents of the human diet.
department	An area of special expertise or responsibility. The council s finance department.
discussion section	An exchange of views on some topic.
district	A division of a county or region that elects its own councillors. An elegant shopping district.
division	A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. The main divisions of the book.
element	Each of more than one hundred substances that cannot be chemically interconverted or broken down into simpler substances and are primary constituents of matter Each element is distinguished by its atomic number i e the number of protons in the nuclei of its atoms. Extreme right wing elements in the army.
episode	An event or a group of events occurring as part of a sequence; an incident or period considered in isolation. The whole episode has been a major embarrassment.
fraction	A component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process. The third fraction contain alcohols with boiling points of 120 130 C.
fragment	An incomplete piece. Small fragments of pottery.
incision	A mark or decoration cut into a surface. A block of marble delicately decorated with incisions.
instalment	A sum of money due as one of several equal payments for something, spread over an agreed period of time. Filming the final instalment in his Vietnam trilogy.
length	The length of a swimming pool as a measure of the distance swum. The length of the syllable is isomorphic with the length of the syllabic vowel.
locality	A surrounding or nearby region. The rock s size and locality.
module	A detachable self-contained unit of a spacecraft. Nine optional modules must be taken.
neighbourhood	Neighbourly feeling or conduct. The importance of neighbourhood to old people.
part	The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music. He played a key part in ending the revolt.
passage	A narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building a passageway. A neat passage of midfield play.
patch	A small disc of black silk worn attached to the face for adornment by women in the 17th and 18th centuries. The jacket was of well worn tweed with leather patches on the elbows.
piece	A distance. Take a car to pieces.
plane section	A carpenter’s hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood.
plot	A small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening. The plot consists almost entirely of a man and woman falling in love.
portion	Something less than the whole of a human artifact. A portion of ice cream.
precinct	The police station situated in a precinct. With 35 per cent of the precincts declaring he had 51 per cent of the vote.
quarter	A quarter of a hundredweight 28 pounds. She cut each apple into quarters.
scene	The pieces of scenery used in a play or opera. I don t go out into the scene now.
sector	The minimum track length that can be assigned to store information unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes. He was helpless in an important sector of his life.
segment	Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided. Hammond and the others were filming a segment for his programme.
side	Spin given to the cue ball in snooker and billiards by hitting it on one side. What s on the other side.
slice	A wound made by cutting. Potato slices.
subdivision	A section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided. The subdivision of existing subjects.
subsection	A section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided. Each chapter has a different theme and numerous subsections.
tract	A brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet. The digestive tract.
unit	The smallest measure of investment in a unit trust. He eased into his unit and flicked the siren on.
wing	A pilot s certificate of ability to fly a plane indicated by a badge representing a pair of wings. A candidate from the liberal wing of the party.
zone	A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used. A zone of easterly winds.

Usage Examples of "Section" as a noun

• Nails of round section.
• The non-parliamentary section of the party.
• Metal sections were used below ground.
• He ate a section of the orange.
• The finance section of the company.
• There are three synagogues in the Jewish section.
• Sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue.
• A section of face, showing the position of the organs of speech.
• No section of the nation is more ardent than the South.
• A section of a fishing rod.
• A residential section of the capital.
• I unscrewed every section of copper pipe, from the roof tank to the hot-water cylinder.
• A GHQ Signals Section.
• A graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course.
• The New York Times business section.
• He always turns first to the business section.
• The history of this work is discussed in the next section.
• The brass section.
• This last section of the questionnaire relates solely to training.
• She got a job in the historical section of the Treasury.

Section as a Verb

Definitions of "Section" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “section” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Separate an area from a larger one.
• Cut (animal or plant tissue) into thin slices for microscopic examination.
• Divide by cutting.
• Divide into sections.
• Divide into segments.
• Commit (someone) compulsorily to a psychiatric hospital in accordance with a section of a mental health act.

Synonyms of "Section" as a verb (5 Words)

certify	Officially recognize as possessing certain qualifications or meeting certain standards. The Law Society will certify that the sum charged is fair and reasonable.
commit	Refer a parliamentary or legislative bill to a committee. She committed each tiny feature to memory.
hospitalize	Admit or cause (someone) to be admitted to hospital for treatment. Casey was hospitalized for chest pains.
institutionalize	Place or keep (someone) in a residential institution. These adolescents had more contacts with the police and were charged and institutionalized more often.
segment	Divide into segments. Segment an orange.

Usage Examples of "Section" as a verb

• It is common veterinary practice to section the nerves to the hoof of a limping horse.
• She began to section the grapefruit.
• Should she be sectioned and forced back into hospital?
• Parts of the curved balcony had been sectioned off with wrought-iron grilles.
• The specimens were embedded and serially sectioned.

Associations of "Section" (30 Words)

apportion	Distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose. They did not apportion blame or liability to any one individual.
branch	A part of a forked or branching shape. A branch of mathematics called graph theory.
cleave	Split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain. They watched a coot cleave the smooth water.
divide	A ridge or line of high ground forming the division between two valleys or river systems. Consumer magazines can be divided into a number of categories.
division	Biology a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. The villagers lived in a communal building and there were no solid divisions between neighbours.
fraction	A component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process. The dominant classes or fractions in capitalist societies.
fractional	Relating to or denoting the separation of a mixture into fractions. Fractional crystallization.
fracture	Sustain a fracture of a bone. It was a nasty fracture.
fragment	Break or cause to break into fragments. Lough Erne fragmented into a series of lakes.
fragmentary	Consisting of small disconnected parts. Excavations have revealed fragmentary remains of masonry.
fragmentation	Separating something into fine particles. Fragmentation slows system performance because it takes extra time to locate and assemble the parts of the fragmented file.
half	Partially or to the extent of a half. The northern half of the island.
intersect	Meet at a point. The area is intersected only by minor roads.
least	Used in names of very small animals and plants e g least shrew. He has the least talent of anyone.
moiety	One of two basic subdivisions of a tribe. The enzyme removes the sulphate moiety.
part	Force take or pull apart. She played a lot of leading parts.
partial	Having a liking for. The paper gave a distorted and very partial view of the situation.
partially	To some extent; in some degree; not wholly. The work partially fulfills the function of a historical memoir.
partition	The act of dividing or partitioning separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart. The hall was partitioned to contain the noise of the computers.
partly	To some extent; not completely. I felt partly to blame.
piece	Assemble something from parts or pieces. A 10p piece.
portion	Give a dowry to (a bride. I read a portion of the manuscript.
schism	The formal separation of a Church into two Churches or the secession of a group owing to doctrinal and other differences. The persistence of this group could produce schism within society.
scission	A division or split between people or parties; a schism. A scission arose between the socialists and those further to the left.
secant	The ratio of the hypotenuse to the shorter side adjacent to an acute angle (in a right-angled triangle); the reciprocal of a cosine.
sector	The minimum track length that can be assigned to store information unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes. The public sector.
segment	Divide into segments. Finished the final segment of the road.
segmentation	Division into separate parts or sections. The segmentation of society means that often we don t have arguments across the political divide.
some	To some extent quite a lot. We talked for some time.
somewhat	To a moderate extent or by a moderate amount; rather. His arguments were somewhat self contradictory.