Word Meanings - SECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cutting; a scion. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SECT)

• Classification
• taxonomic
• Order
• species
• nature
• character
• cast
• stamp
• group
• kind
• section
• sect
• category
• assortment
• designation
• description
• genus

Related words: (words related to SECT)

• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CATEGORY
  One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• SECTIONIZE
  To form into sections.
• STAMPING
  from Stamp, v. Stamping ground, a place frequented, and much trodden, by animals, wild or domesticated; hence , the scene of one's labors or exploits; also, one's favorite resort. -- Stamping machine, a machine for forming metallic articles or
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• CLASSIFICATION
  The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. See under Artifitial.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• SECTIONALLY
  In a sectional manner.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• STAMP
  Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel. stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. 1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. Shak. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden. 2. To bring
• SECTIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local. All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story. 2. Consisting of sections, or capable
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• DESCRIPTION
  1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.