Answer by karim alch for What is the difference between "section" and "part"?
The question is very easy and I was shocked when I saw the answers. Think a bit about movies like harry potter (its all his movies divide into different parts and every section has own part, so that...
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Single definitions cause most of the trouble here, though that’s made more confusing by the idea that "Section" is smaller than "Part” which has little and usually irrelevant justification , don’t you...
View ArticleAnswer by Digna for What is the difference between "section" and "part"?
Just to add an example in which you use them differently: In latex, you can divide a document (or a presentation) in several parts, and each part has its own chapters, sections and subsections. So, in...
View ArticleAnswer by Jay for What is the difference between "section" and "part"?
These are general words that don't have concrete definitions in the sense that you seem to be driving at. Both are used when some large "thing" is divided into smaller "things". There's no rule that a...
View ArticleAnswer by Jon Hess for What is the difference between "section" and "part"?
I would use the word part to describe something that was divisible into discrete components. For example, a lego spaceship is made of lego parts, not lego sections. I would use section to describe...
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To me, section implies some formal division between areas of an object or place, whereas part is a more general term which doesn't have a clear boundary. Neither say anything about size.Both of your...
View ArticleAnswer by Aaron Kurtzhals for What is the difference between "section" and...
Based on my experiences as a native in the USA:Neither "part" nor "section" refer to a specific size. In terms of dictionary and grammar correctness, they can be used interchangeably. Part is more...
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What is the difference between "section" and "part"? The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English says for "section": one of the parts that something such as an object or place is divided intoand...
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