from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a particular district.
adjective Composed of or divided into component sections.
noun A piece of furniture made up of sections that can be used separately or together.
from The Century Dictionary.
Composed of or made up in several independent sections: as, the sectional hull of a ship.
Of or pertaining to some particular section or region; for or in regard to some particular part of a country as distinct from others; local: as, sectional interests; sectional prejudices; sectional spirit; sectional legislation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Of or pertaining to a section or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
adjective Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Separating into sections.
adjective Relating to conflict between areas.
noun An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa
noun sports A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships
noun music A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
noun a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
adjective consisting of or divided into sections
adjective related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
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Mr. Fillmore took strong ground against what he called a sectional ticket presenting both candidates from the free states, with the avowed purpose of one part of the Union ruling over the whole United
This does sound very similar to what Brown's close ally Ed Balls in August 2006 described as "short-term sectional gestures on taxation" after Blairite Stephen Byers called for the abolition of inheritance tax.
This does sound very similar to what Brown's close ally Ed Balls in August 2006 described as "short-term sectional gestures on taxation" after Blairite Stephen Byers called for the abolition of inheritance tax.
ANC, in the long term, guarantee the best interest of the country as a whole as opposed to the short-term sectional interests devised by the grand Apartheid strategy of the past.
It was the opprobrium of the Republican party in the Presidential campaign of 1860, that the Southern States were not, in any but a limited degree, represented in its ranks; and so it was called a sectional party.
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