Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divide into sections, especially into geographic sections.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render sectional in scope or spirit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb United States To divide according to geographical sections or local interests.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
divide intosections .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb divide into sections, especially into geographic sections
Etymologies
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Examples
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They're strictly for the use of the junta, which uses the road roads "to sectionalize areas of Karen State" and service base camps.
Russ Wellen: Twin-Track Talks in Burma Raise Peace Hopes 2009
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We have procedures drills for testing relays and all of these sorts of devices that would enable to you sectionalize and isolate a problem when it occurs.
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The question here is why did it spread, why didn't it isolate itself and sectionalize itself just to the local area that was having the problem?
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Also, you can sectionalize a fault in or out of the co by testing "in" or "out" using MDF.
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Logcp and loc2 can also be used to sectionalize a one-sided resistive fault.
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In fact, it would have a tendency to sectionalize the party by which the change is made.
The Facts of Reconstruction John R. Lynch
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Nothing did more to sectionalize Northern opinion and fire the Northern heart, and to lash the fury of the rank and file of those who were urged to vote as they had shot and who had hoisted above them the Bloody Shirt for a banner.
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Nothing did more to sectionalize Northern opinion and fire the Northern heart, and to lash the fury of the rank and file of those who were urged to vote as they had shot and who had hoisted above them the Bloody Shirt for a banner.
Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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Nothing did more to sectionalize Northern opinion and fire the Northern heart, and to lash the fury of the rank and file of those who were urged to vote as they had shot and who had hoisted above them the Bloody Shirt for a banner.
Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880
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On the whole, the principal results of the struggle were, to sectionalize parties more completely, ripen Southern sentiment towards secession, and combine wavering voters in the free-States in support of Republican doctrines.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866
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