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Segment

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

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Verb group 2

Section 84% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Section 84% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Narrower term 11

Bend 76% connected

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Curve 76% connected

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dado 76% connected

That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Internode 76% connected

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.

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Leaf 76% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Length 76% connected

The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Metamere 76% connected

One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Somite 76% connected

One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Straight 76% connected

A variant of Strait, a.

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Subdivision 76% connected

The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 5

Divide 76% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Portion 76% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 4

Quarter 76% connected

One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Syllabicate 76% connected

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

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Syllabify 76% connected

To form or divide into syllables.

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Syllabize 76% connected

To syllabify.

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Derivationally related 4

Division 74% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Division 74% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Section 74% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Section 74% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Containing whole 2

Unit 70% connected

A single thing or person.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Whole 70% connected

Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar s…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Section 92% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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