An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
A piece of residential land; a plot.
Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadan surveys and (historical) American land grants.
A sequence of rock layers.
A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
A right inverse.
A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
A group of instruments in an orchestra.
An act or instance of cutting.
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
An incision or the act of making an incision.
A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
To cut, divide or separate into pieces.