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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
section .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of or divided into sections
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Examples
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Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks.
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They are ill and should be 'sectioned' - lifted from the streets and confined in the care of the mental health system, behind bars if necessary.
Waging the war against liberalism... from Donaghcloney Johnny Guitar 2007
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They are ill and should be 'sectioned' - lifted from the streets and confined in the care of the mental health system, behind bars if necessary.
Archive 2007-02-01 Johnny Guitar 2007
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He should have been deemed (or 'sectioned' as they now euphemistically call it).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Midsomer Murders, saying he would have been "sectioned" by shareholders if he had tried to.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I should remind you that I was being admitted voluntarily, there was never any suggestion that I needed to be 'sectioned' but you would have thought that I had stolen the Crown Jewels and then run amok slaying the Royal Family to judge by the manner of the nurse admitting me.
Mental Nurse 2009
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There's been many reports recently in the UK of people being 'sectioned'/jailed for life supposedly for killing non physical entities/pig yobs because they have 'mental health' problems.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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"sectioned" under the Mental Health Act increased by a fifth between 1996 and 2006.
Signs of the Times 2008
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"sectioned" patients were 15 times more likely to be in an NHS facility than a private facility in 1996-7 but only five times more likely by 2006.
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Seven molars were also virtually sectioned through the mesial cusps and two-dimensional enamel thickness and dentine horn height measurements were recorded.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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