Section vs. Chapter
Difference Between Section and Chapter
Sectionnoun
One of several components; a piece.
Chapternoun
One of the main divisions of a relatively lengthy piece of writing, such as a book, that is usually numbered or titled.
Sectionnoun
A subdivision of a written work.
Chapternoun
One of the main divisions of a video recording, usually accessible through an onscreen menu.
Sectionnoun
(Law) A distinct portion or provision of a legal code or set of laws, often establishing a particular legal requirement
section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.Chapternoun
A distinct period or sequence of events, as in history or a person's life
Steamboat travel opened a new chapter in America's exploration of the West.Sectionnoun
A distinct portion of a newspaper
the sports section.Chapternoun
A local branch of an organization, such as a club or fraternity
The Chicago chapter is admitting new members this year.Sectionnoun
A distinct area of a town, county, or country
a residential section.Chapternoun
An assembly of the canons of a church or of the members of a religious residence.
Sectionnoun
A land unit equal to one square mile (2.59 square kilometers), 640 acres, or 1/36 of a township.
Chapternoun
The canons of a church or the members of a religious residence considered as a group.
Sectionnoun
The act or process of separating or cutting, especially the surgical cutting or dividing of tissue.
Chapternoun
A short scriptural passage read after the psalms in certain church services.
Sectionnoun
A thin slice, as of tissue, suitable for microscopic examination.
Chapternoun
(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.Sectionnoun
A segment of a fruit, especially a citrus fruit.
Chapternoun
A section of a social or religious body.
Sectionnoun
Representation of a solid object as it would appear if cut by an intersecting plane, so that the internal structure is displayed.
Chapternoun
An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
Sectionnoun
(Music) A group of instruments or voices in the same class considered as a division of a band, orchestra, or choir
the rhythm section.the woodwind section.Chapternoun
An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
Sectionnoun
A class or discussion group of students taking the same course
She taught three sections of English composition.Chapternoun
A community of canons or canonesses.
Sectionnoun
A portion of railroad track maintained by a single crew.
Chapternoun
A bishop's council.
Sectionnoun
An area in a train's sleeping car containing an upper and lower berth.
Chapternoun
An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
Sectionnoun
An army tactical unit smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad.
Chapternoun
A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
Sectionnoun
A unit of vessels or aircraft within a division of armed forces.
Chapternoun
A chapter house.
Sectionnoun
One of two or more vehicles, such as a bus or train, given the same route and schedule, often used to carry extra passengers.
Chapternoun
A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
Sectionnoun
The character (§) used in printing to mark the beginning of a section.
Chapternoun
A decretal epistle.
Sectionnoun
This character used as the fourth in a series of reference marks for footnotes.
Chapternoun
(obsolete) A location or compartment.
Sectionnoun
(Informal) A cesarean section.
Chapterverb
To divide into chapters.
Sectionverb
To separate or divide into parts.
Chapterverb
To put into a chapter.
Sectionverb
To cut or divide (tissue) surgically.
Chapterverb
To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
Sectionverb
To shade or crosshatch (part of a drawing) to indicate sections.
Chapterverb
(transitive) To take to task.
Sectionverb
(Informal) To perform a cesarean section on.
Chapternoun
a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled;
he read a chapter every night before falling asleepSectionnoun
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
Chapternoun
any distinct period in history or in a person's life;
the industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British historythe divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationshipSectionnoun
A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
Chapternoun
a local branch of some fraternity or association;
he joined the Atlanta chapterSectionnoun
(music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn.Chapternoun
an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
Sectionnoun
A part of a document.
Chapternoun
a series of related events forming an episode;
a chapter of disastersSectionnoun
An act or instance of cutting.
Sectionnoun
A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
Sectionnoun
(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
Sectionnoun
(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
Sectionnoun
(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
Sectionnoun
(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
Sectionnoun
(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
Sectionnoun
(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
Sectionnoun
(category theory) A right inverse.
Sectionnoun
(NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.
Sectionnoun
(Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
Sectionnoun
(geology) A sequence of rock layers.
Sectionverb
To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
Sectionverb
(British) 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.
Sectionverb
To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
Sectionnoun
a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical);
he always turns first to the business sectionthe history of this work is discussed in the next sectionSectionnoun
a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope;
sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissueSectionnoun
a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people;
no section of the nation is more ardent than the Souththere are three synagogues in the Jewish sectionSectionnoun
one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;
a section of a fishing rodmetal sections were used below groundfinished the final segment of the roadSectionnoun
a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
Sectionnoun
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;
the written part of the examthe finance section of the companythe BBC's engineering divisionSectionnoun
a land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side
Sectionnoun
(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
Sectionnoun
a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
Sectionnoun
a small army unit usually having a special function
Sectionnoun
a specialized division of a large organization;
you'll find it in the hardware departmentshe got a job in the historical section of the TreasurySectionnoun
a segment of a citrus fruit;
he ate a section of the orangeSectionnoun
the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
Sectionverb
divide into segments;
segment an orangesegment a compound word
