chapter
IPA: tʃˈæptɝ
noun
- (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A bishop's council.
- A section of a social body.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- A chapter house
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- (obsolete) A location or compartment.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
verb
- To divide into chapters.
- To put into a chapter.
- (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- (transitive) To take to task.
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Examples of "chapter" in Sentences
- Read the last chapter of the book carefully.
- The Big Book chapter to the agnostic is a ruse.
- A thoughtful essay, see the last chapter of the book.
- As for thoughtful essay, see the last chapter of the book.
- The link is to a chapter by chapter compendium of the book.
- In 2006 marks a new chapter in the history of Memento Park.
- I think there should be a chapter about homograph in this book.
- The article originally was a chapter by chapter precis of the book.
- The assumptions on the manifolds are given in the first chapter of the book.
- Chapter 1 of the book concerns the ethical virtue of liberality or generosity.
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