Material and Section

noun

• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
  • usage: "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
  • synonyms: stuff
• Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form.
  • usage: "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"
• Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
  • usage: "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
  • synonyms: fabric, cloth, textile
• Things needed for doing or making something.
  • usage: "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials"
• A person judged suitable for admission or employment.
  • usage: "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"

adjective

• Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests.
  • usage: "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"
• Derived from or composed of matter.
  • usage: "the material universe"
• Directly relevant to a matter especially a law case.
  • usage: "his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness"
• Concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being. "material needs"; "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens- T. Roosevelt
• Having material or physical form or substance."that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
  • synonyms: corporeal
• Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary."the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things- Shakespeare
  • synonyms: substantial, real

• (a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
• (a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
• (v.t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
• (a.) Hence: Pertaining to or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
• (a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
• (n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

noun

• A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical. )
  • usage: "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section"
  • synonyms: subdivision
• A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope.
  • usage: "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue"
• A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people.
  • usage: "no section of the nation is more ardent than the South"; "there are three synagogues in the Jewish section"
• One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
  • usage: "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"
  • synonyms: segment
• A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon.
• One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.
  • usage: "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
  • synonyms: part, division
• A land unit equal to 1 square mile.
• Geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid.
  • synonyms: plane section
• A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately.
  • usage: "a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course"
  • synonyms: discussion section
• A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class.
• A small army unit usually having a special function.
• A specialized division of a large organization.
  • usage: "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
  • synonyms: department
• A segment of a citrus fruit.
  • usage: "he ate a section of the orange"
• The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation.
  • synonyms: incision, surgical incision

verb

• Divide into segments.
  • usage: "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
  • synonyms: segment

• (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
• (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
• (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines or of a people considered as distinct.
• (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet or to two superficies which meet or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
• (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
• (n.) The act of cutting or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
• (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
• (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
• (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

Identifies the third highest level in the formal City organization in which a specific activity is carried out; a division may consist of several' Section's.

(DoD) An area in a warehouse extending from one wall to the next; usually the largest subdivision of one floor.
(DoD) A tactical unit of the Army and Marine Corps. A section is smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad. In some organizations the section, rather than the squad, is the basic tactical unit.
(DoD) A subdivision of an office, installation, territory, works, or organization; especially a major subdivision of a staff.
(DoD) As applied to ships or naval aircraft, a tactical subdivision of a division. It is normally one-half of a division in the case of ships, and two aircraft in the case of aircraft.