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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- A part of a document.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (category theory) A right inverse.
- (NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
Verbit
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- (British) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons.
Esimerkit
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
- Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). [...] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
- The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
- After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- ¶ [...]
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