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46 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• section n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• section n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• section n. A part of a document, especially a major#Adjective part; often notated with §.
• section n. An act or instance of cutting.
• section n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• section n. (Surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• section n. (Sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• section n. (Botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• section n. (Zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• section n. (Military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• section n. (Category theory) A right inverse.
• section n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• section n. (Chiefly historical) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadan…
• section n. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
• section n. (Geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• section n. (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with…
• section v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• section v. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
• section v. (UK) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• section v. (Medical): To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Interlingua
  • section n. (Act of) cutting.
  • section n. (Surgery) section (all meanings).
  • section n. Section.
  • section n. (Geometry, drawing, etc.) section.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• section n. Afdeling, sectie, onderverdeling.
• section n. (Medisch) sectie, snede.
• section w. Sectie verrichten.

— English words, defined in French —

• section n. Section.
• section n. (Militaire) Section.
• section n. Partie d’un document ou d’un article.
• section n. Pan.
• section n. (Géométrie) Section.
• section n. (Biologie) (Classification phylogénétique) Section.
• section v. Sectionner.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• section s. Sección.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• section s. Seção.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• section s. Sezione.

— In French —

• section n.f. Action de couper, de diviser ou résultat de cette action.
• section n.f. Division ou subdivision d’un ouvrage, d’un traité, d’un…
• section n.f. (Histoire) (France) Assemblée générale permanente révolutionnaire…
• section n.f. (Militaire) Petite unité, subdivisée en escouades et regroupée…
• section n.f. Désigne, dans certaines écoles, celui qui est le premier…
• section n.f. (Géométrie) se dit de la ligne, de la surface suivant laquelle…
• section n.f. (Architecture) Document graphique représentant exclusivement…
• section n.f. (Biologie) (Classification phylogénétique) Taxon de bas…
• section n.f. (Belgique) Subdivision des communes correspondant aux anciennes…

139 English words from 24 English definitions

above act Adjective all along and anything area as␣for as␣if below Botany but Category Category␣theory cesarean cesarean␣section Chiefly class commissioned commissioned␣officer commit consent contexts cross cross␣section cut cut␣along cut␣out cutting degree denoting divide document drawing education especially etc family for forming from genus Geology Geometry group health historical hospital image incision informal instance into inverse land layers led major making material meanings Medical meeting meeting␣with mental mental␣health microscope mile Military New New␣Zealand non non-commissioned notated object of␣a officer often order out part perform person Philippines piece pieces plane platoon plot prepared present rank ranks reasons reduce regularly required research residential rest right right␣inverse rock scheduled school Sciences section separate sequence shows slice soldiers someone something species specimen square square␣mile students study subdivision subgenus Surgery symbol Synonym taxonomic that the their theory thin thinness to␣the unit with without Zealand Zoology

22 English words from 22 foreign definitions

action Architecture article aux bas Classification communes dans des dit Division document escouades est France Pan Petite premier Section subdivision surface Taxon

45 foreign words from 22 foreign definitions

Afdeling anciennes Assemblée Assemblée␣générale Belgique Biologie celui certaines cette correspondant couper de␣la Désigne diviser écoles exclusivement générale Géométrie graphique Histoire laquelle ligne Medisch Militaire onderverdeling ouvrage Partie permanente phylogénétique qui regroupée représentant résultat révolutionnaire Seção Sección sectie Sectionner Sezione snede subdivisée suivant traité unité verrichten

51 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

sections sectional sectioned sectionals sectionary sectioning sectionise sectionize sectionman sectionmen sectionable sectionally section␣beam sectionings sectionised sectionises sectionized sectionizes section␣sign sectionwide sectionalise sectionalism sectionalist sectionality sectionalize sectionaries section␣beams section␣break section-house sectionising sectionizing section␣liner section␣signs sectionalised sectionalises sectionalisms sectionalists sectionalized sectionalizes section␣breaks sectionectomy section-houses section␣liners sectionalising sectionalizing sectionisation sectionectomies sectionalisation sectionalization sectionalisations sectionalizations

144 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

C-sections T-sections bisections cosections disections exsections insections resections bisectional dissections ecosections midsections presections prosections resectional resectioned subsections trisections unsectional unsectioned bisectioning cryosections dead␣sections dissectional file␣sections hemisections medisections midsectional nonsectional nonsectioned presectioned reresections resectioning subsectional subsectioned thin␣sections transections venesections vivisections bisectionally bisectionings block␣sections brass␣sections callisections conic␣sections crossectional crosssections cross-sections cross␣sections cryosectioned +94 words

94 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

C-section T-section bisection cosection disection exsection insection resection upsection dissection ecosection midsection presection prosection subsection trisection cryosection dead␣section downsection file␣section hemisection medisection reresection thin␣section transection venesection vivisection block␣section brass␣section callisection conic␣section crosssection cross-section cross␣section disinsection eigensection histosection hypersection infrasection intersection microsection misbisection multisection preresection redissection sentisection supersection transsection undersection vibrosection +44 words

18 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CTI ECT ect. ion Ion -ion sec SEC sec- sec. Sec. S.E.C. S.␣E.␣C. sect tio Tio tion -tion

11 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ces CEs CES ITC NOI noit OIt OIT tce TCE TCEs

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

ecotins noetics noicest notices

58 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

aces␣into acetoins aconites Anicetos Atencios canoeist casitone cenosite centimos centoism centoist chitones chonites Cohenist coingest coiniest coinvest conceits consuite contries coonties corniest Cotesian counites counties C-section ctenoids cytosine deontics D-notices ectoines Etchison excitons icestone inactose lections nesiotic noticers noticest osteonic outnices piconets Pictones ponciest rections schönite sections sestonic sicknote sick␣note +8 words

44 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

centos c-notes c␣notes coines conies conite Contés cosine costen Costie Costin cotise ecotin Ectons Enciso eonist incest Inscoe insect Neoist neotic nicest Nietos noetic notice oecist onsite on-site on␣site oscine ostein scient Scinto Senoic sintoc socnet stonie Stonie Tecson Tineos tocsin tonics tonies Tonies

5 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

lection rection sention suction vection

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