Chapter
['tʃæptə] or ['tʃæptɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; 'he read a chapter every night before falling asleep'.
(noun.) a series of related events forming an episode; 'a chapter of disasters'.
(noun.) a local branch of some fraternity or association; 'he joined the Atlanta chapter'.
(noun.) an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church.
(noun.) any distinct period in history or in a person's life; 'the industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British history'; 'the divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship'.
Typed by Alphonse--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
(n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
(n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
(n.) A bishop's council.
(n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
(n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
(n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
(n.) A chapter house.
(n.) A decretal epistle.
(n.) A location or compartment.
(v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.
(v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
Typed by Jody
Definition
n. a main division of a book or of anything: a subject or category generally: an assembly of the canons of a cathedral or collegiate church or the members of a religious or military order: an organised branch of some society or fraternity.—v.t. to put into chapters: to take to task.—n. Chap′ter-house.—Chapter-and-verse the exact reference to the passage of the authority for one's statements.—The chapter of accidents the catalogue of unforeseen events.—To the end of the chapter throughout the whole subject.
Typist: Rowland
Examples
- Contents of chapter, “His birth and estate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In this place I may as well jot down a chapter concerning those necessary nuisances, European guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In this Project Gutenberg edition the pertinent information is in Chapter XXX, paragraph 90. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As implied in a previous chapter, number relations are not clearly grasped by primitive races. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We have opened this chapter with the stories of two countries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We will state where he was, in the next chapter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The discussions of this chapter and the prior one should, however, give an added meaning to those results. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is no evidence, as was remarked in the last chapter, of the existence of any law of necessary development. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We have already glanced at this story in § 8 of the preceding chapter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was but a short time thereafter that he solved the knotty problem by an invention mentioned in a previous chapter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I mistook the chapter, and book, and Testament--gospel for law, Acts for Genesis, the city of Jerusalem for the plain of Shinar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This reference is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Exodus, wherein the Lord commanded Moses to make golden spoons for the Tabernacle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject matter of knowing is that contained in learning how to do things of a fairly direct sort. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Reprehending (mildly) a certain chapter of my own on 'Habit,' he said that it was a fixed rule with him to form no regular habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of the democratic ideas in education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The prior chapters fall logically into three parts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- With the questions of reorganization thus suggested, we shall be concerned in the concluding chapters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Also, in all such chapters, it is our duty to hear the advice of our brethren, and to proceed according to our own pleasure. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- After what has been said in previous chapters, it will not seem so strange that Edison should have hundreds of dormant inventions on his hands. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the subsequent chapters (XVIII-XXII) we considered the present limitation of its actual realization. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is believed that from the other chapters of this book the reader can formulate his own answer to the question. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In some degree to remedy this obvious defect, various short passages have been inserted, and several new chapters added. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I shall, in the four following chapters, endeavour to explain, as fully and distinctly as I can, the causes of those different variations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Nearly all, I think: I have indicated the heads of Père Silas's chapters. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Educationally, this change denotes such a plan for the studies and method of instruction as has been developed in the previous chapters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The first chapters deal with education as a social need and function. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The politics I have urged in these chapters cannot be learned by rote. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The following book, therefore, will naturally be divided into three chapters. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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