Word Meanings - SECTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: 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 of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
Related words: (words related to SECTIONAL)
- DISTINCTNESS
1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated - PARTY
1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - SECTIONALITY
The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - HOPPERINGS
Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle. - SECTIONALIZE
To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay . - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - DISTINCTURE
Distinctness. - DISTINCTIVENESS
State of being distinctive. - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - AMBITIONIST
One excessively ambitious. - HOPEITE
A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - SECTIONALISM
A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national. - STORYBOOK
A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - DISTINCTIVE
1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne. - YIELDING
Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. -- - COOKSHOP
An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay. - LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY - UNCAPABLE
Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke. - ONYCHOPHORA
Malacopoda. - INCAPABLE
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit - SHOPWALKER
One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker. - CONTRADISTINCT
Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin. - ACANTHOPHOROUS
Spine-bearing. Gray. - UNDISTINCTLY
Indistinctly. - BISHOPDOM
Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton. - WHOP
See FORBY - SHOPPISH
Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman. - CHOP SUEY; CHOP SOOY
A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil.