Word Meanings - DEPARTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's

Additional info about word: DEPARTMENT

1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay. 4. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics. 5. A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire. 6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPARTMENT)

• Province
• Tract
• region
• department
• section
• sphere
• domain
• territory

Related words: (words related to DEPARTMENT)

• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• SECTIONIZE
  To form into sections.
• TRACTARIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• TRACTION
  1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction;
• TRACTORY
  A tractrix.
• TRACTILE
  Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
• TRACTATOR
  One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. C. Kingsley.
• SECTIONALLY
  In a sectional manner.
• SECTIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local. All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story. 2. Consisting of sections, or capable
• TRACTILITY
  The quality of being tractile; ductility. Derham.
• TERRITORY
  1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district. He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton. 2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or
• TRACTABLE
  1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• DETRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being detractive.