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chapter

noun
/ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/UK/ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

  1. derived from capitulum
  2. derived from chapitre
  3. inherited from chapitre

Definitions

  1. One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.

    • Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
    • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
    • The story that unfolds through 70 chapters featuring intense tactical battles is full of plot twists and turns.

  2. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)

  3. A section of a social body.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.

    2. A chapter house

    3. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

      • […]she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again.
      • A chapter of locomotive history was closed on Sunday, April 13, when the last Atlantic tender locomotive to remain in service on British Railways, No. 32424, Beachy Head, ended its working life of more than 46 years.

    4. A location or compartment.

      • In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?

    5. A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.

    6. To divide into chapters.

    7. To put into a chapter.

    8. To use administrative procedure to remove someone.

      • If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
      • "He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army."

    9. To take to task.

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Derived

chapter and verse, chapter book, chapterful, chapter house, chapterlike, chapter of accidents, chapter out, chapterplay, chapterwise, dean and chapter, go Chapter 11, interchapter, microchapter, midchapter, multichapter, subchapter, to the end of the chapter

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at chapter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at chapter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at chapter

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA