What's the difference between chapter and section?

Chapter


Definition:

  • (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
  • (n.) A bishop's council.
  • (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
  • (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
  • (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
  • (n.) A chapter house.
  • (n.) A decretal epistle.
  • (n.) A location or compartment.
  • (v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.
  • (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (2) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
  • (3) In this chapter, synthesis of alkylating oligonucleotide derivatives is described in detail and the results of their application for modification of nucleic acids in vitro are summarized.
  • (4) Chapter three consists of the methodology: sample, setting, design, data analysis methods, and ethical concerns.
  • (5) This chapter describes a systematic approach to the art of collection for services rendered, based primarily on a pay-as-you-go philosophy.
  • (6) We have studied this chapter of our history by analyzing primary documents and articles published at the daily press, political press, and scientific journals of Madrid during 1847 to 1848.
  • (7) The chapters deal with general preliminaries and indications for surgery, the selection of bypass material, surgical instruments for coronary opertaions, the methods of extracorporeal circulation, the distal coronary anastomosis, the proximal aortal anastomosis, intraoperative monitoring of results, intra- and postoperative myocardinal infarction, the fate of venous bypass grafts, operative treatment of the ruptured ventricular septum and papillary muscle, and ventricular aneurysmectomy.
  • (8) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
  • (9) This chapter addresses the role of health professionals in providing abortions and examines the dynamic technology of this field.
  • (10) This introductory chapter has presented an overview of how retroviruses replicate and how they are classified within the family Retroviridae.
  • (11) He should not try to play political games with the darkest and most sinister chapter of Europe’s history.
  • (12) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
  • (13) This surely represents a new chapter in the European debt crisis, and it could be headlined The Day The Eurozone Finally Woke Up.
  • (14) Her history is fascinating – every time you think she has finished telling you about her childhood, she embarks on another chapter.
  • (15) Around 800,000 people died of starvation in one of the most horrific chapters of the war as the city was besieged by the Nazis for two and a half years.
  • (16) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined in this chapter, and the relation between its two major components, (a) chronic bronchitis and emphysema and (b) nonremitting asthma, is discussed.
  • (17) I am really looking forward to the next chapter in my coaching career.” In his time at the FA, Peacock has led the Under-17s to two European Championship titles in 2010 and 2014, and has managed over 100 games in Uefa competitions, with a 69% win record.
  • (18) This chapter has reviewed the nature of antigens of the MNSs blood group system.
  • (19) The several papers that follow deal with chapters that will be new to the Redbook.
  • (20) It’s going to be a great new chapter in my life.” Lallana was identified as a primary target for the Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, at the end of last season, when his side finished second to Manchester City in the Premier League.

Section


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
  • (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
  • (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 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.) 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.) 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 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 part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (3) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
  • (4) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (5) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
  • (6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
  • (7) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
  • (8) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
  • (9) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
  • (10) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
  • (11) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
  • (12) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
  • (13) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
  • (14) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
  • (15) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
  • (16) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (17) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (18) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
  • (19) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
  • (20) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.