to section
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8.2
- verb
- /ˈsɛkʃən/
- UK
:
internar
- The doctor decided it was necessary to section him under the Mental Health Act after his behavior became increasingly erratic.
I wasn't sectioned because I went there voluntarily, albeit I was very, very ill.
- I wasn't sectioned because I went there voluntarily, albeit I was very, very ill.
Examples
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'Lucas has been sectioned and we need a new keyboard pIayer.
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We'd maybe be arrested or sectioned or something like that.
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And then as soon as they could get the baby out, they went ahead and sectioned her.
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I believe this could be stopped by more monitoring of classes and for more students to be sectioned out for their intelligence.
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Mother was devastated; four of the last six weeks Dad was alive, she spent in the hospital, having had to be sectioned.
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The mother, who is understood to have two teenage children aged 14 and 16, has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and is in a secure unit.
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I wasn't sectioned because I went there voluntarily, albeit I was very, very ill.
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After her evaluation, the psychiatrist recommended that they section her for proper care and treatment.
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Due to his unpredictable actions, the authorities had no choice but to section him for a thorough psychiatric assessment.
Synonyms
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5.9
To keep someone with the police for questioning
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.4
A surgery to deliver a baby by making cuts in the mother's abdomen and womb
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3.7
A surface or shape made by cutting through an object across its longest part
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3.5
A group of musicians in an orchestra who play instruments like violins and cellos
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3.7
An operation to help a woman have a baby by making cuts in her belly and womb
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7.5
A special way to divide a line or shape so the parts follow a fixed proportion often used in art
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A curve made when a flat surface cuts a cone, like an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola
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Showing the inside shape you see when you cut something across, like a tree trunk
A small group in a course where students meet to talk about material, usually led by a teaching assistant
A part of the British government that protects the country from spies and other internal threats
A British government service that gathers secret information abroad and runs secret operations
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A drawing that shows what a building or object looks like when cut horizontally
A teacher who leads a part of a college course, like a lab or discussion group
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A drawing that shows the inside of a building or machine as if you cut it from top to bottom
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Section (to detain under mental health law) comes from the idea of a section as a 'specific part' of a law, so to 'section' someone is to place them under that named part of the law that allows compulsory care.