Department
[dɪ'pɑːtm(ə)nt] or [dɪ'pɑrtmənt]
Definition
(noun.) a specialized sphere of knowledge; 'baking is not my department'; 'his work established a new department of literature'.
(noun.) a specialized division of a large organization; 'you'll find it in the hardware department'; 'she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury'.
(noun.) the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France).
Typed by Edmund--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) Act of departing; departure.
(v. i.) A part, portion, or subdivision.
(v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
(v. i.) 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 instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Part, portion, division (especially a territorial division).[2]. Province, function, office, station, sphere of duty, course of life.
Inputed by Byron
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Section, division, portion, function, office, branch, province, line
ANT:Institution, establishment, art, science, literature, service, state, whole, organization,community, society, body
Editor: Miriam
Definition
n. a part: a separate part of business or duty: a section of the administration: a division of a country esp. of France.—adj. Department′al.—adv. Department′ally.
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Examples
- Dana, then an officer of the War Department, accompanied me on the Vicksburg campaign and through a portion of the siege. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have no doubt that their leaving was at the earnest solicitation of the War Department. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Department may have either originated, or confirmed, a Minute making that recommendation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In fact Burnside and the War Department both thought the 9th corps was intended for such an expedition up to the last moment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This exquisite painstaking will be seen still more in the barrel-inspection department, to which we will go now. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That was long before invention became a research department full of engineers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Came back to our Department, and Pitched into me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- With Plato the investigation of nature is another department of knowledge, and in this he seeks to attain only probable conclusions (Timaeus). Plato. The Republic.
- In fact, that is our family department, said Mr. Skimpole, in this hurly-burly of life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Adding machines may be found at work in all kinds of business places from corner groceries to department stores and manufacturing plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The heat-treating department contains about seventy-five large furnaces, which consume from 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel oil per day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Department of Public Works requires that you should have five inspectors to look after this work, and that their salary shall be $5 per day, payable at the end of each week. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His command was subdivided into four departments, but the commanders all reported to Sherman and were subject to his orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And this schedule reaches out into the shipping and mailing departments, so arranging it that the first copies off the press are speeded to the far sections of the country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pyrenes to the number of 175 are distributed about the departments for combatting electrical fires. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There is perhaps more than ordinary coincidence in the association of Edison with two such active departments of progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It never wore out, though it was always going round and round in all the State Departments. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You'll find out when the business passes through each of these stages by asking at both Departments till they tell you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The economic results from this system have been wonderful, as will be shown in some of the departments yet to be described. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The manufacturing policy of the company is to make unit assemblies in different departments and deliver them to the final assembly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Ronalds has since received a small pension, not however as a reward for his ingenious telegraph invention, but for his services in other departments of science. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He has an extraordinary faculty for figures, and audits the books in some of the government departments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the National side the forces confronting him were divided into, at first three, then four separate departments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The little Gradgrinds had cabinets in various departments of science too. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Make all requisitions upon the chiefs of their respective departments in the field with me at City Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the unit assembly departments are received the finished parts from the machine shop. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The fabric is then ready to go with the milled rubber to the various departments of the factory to be incorporated into rubber goods. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Cheryl