Part vs. Section — What's the Difference?

A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.

One of several components; a piece.

Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided

A subdivision of a written work.

A division of a book or artistic work such as a film

(Law) A distinct portion or provision of a legal code or set of laws, often establishing a particular legal requirement

An organ, member, or other division of an organism

A distinct portion of a newspaper

Parts The external genitals.

A distinct area of a town, county, or country

A component that can be separated from or attached to a system; a detachable piece

A land unit equal to one square mile (2.59 square kilometers), 640 acres, or 1/36 of a township.

Often parts A region, area, land, or territory

The act or process of separating or cutting, especially the surgical cutting or dividing of tissue.

A role

A thin slice, as of tissue, suitable for microscopic examination.

One's responsibility, duty, or obligation; share

A segment of a fruit, especially a citrus fruit.

Parts Abilities or talents

Representation of a solid object as it would appear if cut by an intersecting plane, so that the internal structure is displayed.

The music or score for a particular instrument, as in an orchestra.

(Music) A group of instruments or voices in the same class considered as a division of a band, orchestra, or choir

One of the melodic divisions or voices of a contrapuntal composition.

A class or discussion group of students taking the same course

The line where the hair on the head is parted.

A portion of railroad track maintained by a single crew.

To cause to move apart; put apart

An area in a train's sleeping car containing an upper and lower berth.

To divide into two or more parts; split

An army tactical unit smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad.

To break up the relationship or association of

A unit of vessels or aircraft within a division of armed forces.

To comb (hair, for example) away from a dividing line, as on the scalp.

One of two or more vehicles, such as a bus or train, given the same route and schedule, often used to carry extra passengers.

To go away from; depart from

The character (§) used in printing to mark the beginning of a section.

(Archaic) To divide into shares or portions.

This character used as the fourth in a series of reference marks for footnotes.

To be divided or separated

(Informal) A cesarean section.

To move apart

To separate or divide into parts.

To leave one another; take leave

To cut or divide (tissue) surgically.

To go away from another; depart

To shade or crosshatch (part of a drawing) to indicate sections.

(Archaic) To die.

(Informal) To perform a cesarean section on.

To separate or divide into ways going in different directions

A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

To disagree or stop associating because of a disagreement

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

Partially; in part

(music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

Not full or complete; partial

A part of a document.

A portion; a component.

An act or instance of cutting.

A fraction of a whole.

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

A distinct element of something larger.

(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.

A group inside a larger group.

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

Share, especially of a profit.

(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

A section of a document.

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

(category theory) A right inverse.

A factor.

(NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.

(US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.

(Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Duty; responsibility.

Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.

Position or role (especially in a play).

The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.

(music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

(geology) A sequence of rock layers.

Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

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.

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

(Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

(UK) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

(intransitive) To leave the company of.

To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

To cut hair with a parting; shed.

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

(transitive) To divide in two.

A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

(intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.

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.

To divide up; to share.

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.

(obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.

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.

To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign .

(obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

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 preëmption laws.

To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

To leave; to quit.

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.

To leave (an IRC channel).

A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical);

Fractional; partial.

A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope;

Partly; partially; fractionally.

A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people;

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.

One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;

An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.

A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon

A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.

A land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; - usually in the plural with a collective sense.

(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.

A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class

Quarter; region; district; - usually in the plural.

A small army unit usually having a special function

A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life; as, to play the part of Macbeth. See To act a part, under Act.

A specialized division of a large organization;

Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; - the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.

A segment of a citrus fruit;

One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.

The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)

To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.

Divide into segments;

To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.

To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.

To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.

To leave; to quit.

To separate (a collection of objects) into smaller collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle.

To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; - often with from.

To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; - followed by with or from; as, to part with one's money.

To have a part or share; to partake.

Partly; in a measure.

Something determined in relation to something that includes it;

The extended spatial location of something;

So far as concerns the actor specified;

Something less than the whole of a human artifact;

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group;

A portion of a natural object;

An actor's portrayal of someone in a play;

Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;

Any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor;

The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music;

A line where the hair is parted;

Go one's own away; move apart;

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;

Leave;

Come apart;

Force, take, or pull apart;

In part; in some degree; not wholly;