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adv
adj
- Separating into sections.
- consisting of or divided into sections
- Relating to a section.
- Relating to conflict between areas.
- related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
- relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
noun
- (music) A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- (sports) A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- (aviation) A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- one of the parts into which something naturally divides
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- A length of some object.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- (computing) An Ethernet bus.
noun
verb
noun
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
noun
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
verb
- separate or apportion into sections
- regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
- (transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
- (transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area).
- (intransitive, slang) To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
- To assign to a restricted category.
noun
- (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
- any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
- a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
- an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
- (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
- (geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- A band or stripe extending around a body.
- (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
- A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- (now literary) A belt or girdle.
- (ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- (basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
- (baseball, informal) The strike zone.
- (by extension) A restricted category or virtual place.
- Any given region or area of the world.
- (handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.
- (figurative, chiefly sports) A mental state of high concentration and performance; see: in the zone.
- A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
- A circuit; a circumference.
noun
- A division into four parts.
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- dividing into four equal parts
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
adj
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
verb
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
noun
- Division or separation into three groups or pieces.
- (algebra) the property of an order relation whereby, given an ordered pair of elements (of a given algebraic structure), exactly one of these is true: the first element is 'less than' the second one, the second is 'less than' the first, or the two elements are equal.
- being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
verb
- divide into pieces
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- (informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a (sport) team.
- to criticise someone
- To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
noun
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- make a division or separation
- perform a division
- move or break apart
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
noun
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A group within a larger group; a group whose members are some, but not all, of the members of a larger group.
- (group theory) A subset H of a group G that is itself a group and has the same binary operation as G.
- (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group
- a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
noun
noun
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
noun
- A division into four parts.
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- dividing into four equal parts
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
adj
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
verb
noun
- Division or separation into three groups or pieces.
- (algebra) the property of an order relation whereby, given an ordered pair of elements (of a given algebraic structure), exactly one of these is true: the first element is 'less than' the second one, the second is 'less than' the first, or the two elements are equal.
- being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
noun
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- one of the parts into which something naturally divides
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- A length of some object.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- (computing) An Ethernet bus.
verb
noun
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
verb
- separate or apportion into sections
- regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns
- (transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas.
- (transitive) To define the property use classification of (an area).
- (intransitive, slang) To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
- To assign to a restricted category.
noun
- (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
- any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
- a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
- an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
- (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
- (geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
- A band or stripe extending around a body.
- (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
- A band or area of growth encircling anything.
- (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
- (now literary) A belt or girdle.
- (ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
- (basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
- (baseball, informal) The strike zone.
- (by extension) A restricted category or virtual place.
- Any given region or area of the world.
- (handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.
- (figurative, chiefly sports) A mental state of high concentration and performance; see: in the zone.
- A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
- A circuit; a circumference.
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
verb
- divide into pieces
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- (informal) To soundly defeat someone, or a (sport) team.
- to criticise someone
- To move someone away from others to be able to talk to, or give them something in private.
- To dismantle something into its component pieces.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- make a division or separation
- perform a division
- move or break apart
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- make a division or separation
- divide into components or constituents
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
adj
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
noun
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
verb
- separate into parts or portions
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A group within a larger group; a group whose members are some, but not all, of the members of a larger group.
- (group theory) A subset H of a group G that is itself a group and has the same binary operation as G.
- (mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group
- a distinct and often subordinate group within a group
adv
adj
- Separating into sections.
- consisting of or divided into sections
- Relating to a section.
- Relating to conflict between areas.
- related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
- relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
noun
- (music) A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- (sports) A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- (aviation) A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together