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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chapter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chapter of a book
▪ The first chapter of the book is about his childhood.
introductory chapter/paragraph
▪ the objectives described in the introductory chapter
preceding chapter/paragraph/page etc
▪ the diagram in the preceding chapter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ Kitcher deals with the motivation of creationists: evolution contradicts the early chapters of Genesis.
▪ The tallest Western species is the coast redwood, which I described in an earlier chapter.
▪ In earlier chapters, we saw that our emotional life is centrally important in the growth of our personal life and faith.
▪ The problems of employee resistance to change were discussed in the earlier chapter on conflict, stress and change.
▪ This problem has been formulated in earlier chapters.
▪ Much of the relevant theory is developed in these early chapters, but not with sufficient care.
▪ The early chapters give a basic knowledge of nucleic acid metabolism and chemistry, with an outline of elementary genetics.
final
▪ The final chapter - on whither the wedding cake - had this reviewer in helpless stitches.
▪ He had spent the afternoon teaching Sun Tzu to his senior officers: the final chapter on the employment of secret agents.
▪ The final chapter, Chapter 8, provides very useful guidance in further reading which can be invaluable to the motivated student.
▪ This suggests an important point which will be taken up in detail in the final chapter but which should be mentioned here.
▪ In the final chapter the narrator relates the actions of the new people as they flee from their encounter with the Neanderthalers.
▪ Yes, it's true, you're holding the final chapter in a long-running saga that began way back in 1985.
▪ But Sisson, in addition to bringing his story up to date with a final chapter, interjects half way through a lengthy segment on his war.
▪ The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989.
following
▪ The subject is covered in detail in the following chapter.
▪ We describe some of these variations in the following chapters.
▪ And this discussion will be taken further in the following chapters.
▪ The following chapters explain in general the opportunities open to you in an average agency.
▪ The issue is sufficiently important to justify separate treatment in the following chapter.
▪ All these ratings are discussed in relevant parts of the following chapters.
▪ In the following chapters we discuss possible ways of reducing the number of word strings.
▪ The lessons which Donaldson has been trying to teach us are reflected throughout the following chapters.
introductory
▪ To discover why, we must turn to the introductory chapters of Genesis.
▪ There is also a chapter on special sample introduction techniques together with an introductory chapter providing an overview of analytical atomic spectrometry.
▪ The introductory chapters of my books contain much advice which, if heeded, would help to minimise the dangers.
▪ After the very general introductory chapter 1, the second chapter gives a number of simple safety advices.
▪ For the sake of simplicity, this introductory chapter will concentrate upon one conflict theory: Marxism.
▪ This is an excellent introductory chapter which outlines the use of quality assurance methods.
▪ The introductory chapter covers a wide range of topics, but disappointingly does not give a very good overview of the techniques.
▪ After an introductory chapter the properties of amino acids are described.
late
▪ This is an issue to which I shall return later in this chapter, when I consider relationships between siblings specifically.
▪ We will return to such considerations in later chapters.
▪ In later chapters we shall give this aspect of the book closer attention.
▪ We will discuss the psychological costs of the dejobbed work life in a later chapter.
▪ We shall return later in this chapter to the doctrine of precedent.
▪ In a later chapter, he will tend to represent those qualities which are too spiritual to be found in this world.
▪ Let us hope that later chapters clear away some of the murkiness.
▪ In a later chapter, I will examine this problem more fully.
present
▪ The present chapter provides concrete examples of such an evaluation.
▪ In the present chapter we deal with communication patterns in our five countries.
▪ For convenience, biographies will be included in the present chapter, while catalogues will be treated in the next.
▪ Managing those is the subject of the present chapter.
▪ In the present chapter we shall consider terms other than exemption clauses.
▪ This novel environment and its structure is the subject of the present chapter.
▪ We have seen in the present chapter that a number of forces bear upon both supply and demand.
previous
▪ If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously, however, there is a challenge which faces us all.
▪ In the previous chapter, we mentioned the news director.
▪ Qualitative forecasting techniques are used to assist and augment the quantitative forecasting process described in the previous chapter.
▪ Chapter 8 provides a summary of the findings from the previous chapters and draws conclusions.
▪ The role of the clinical teacher has been discussed in the previous chapter.
▪ These elements are part of what, in the previous chapter, were described as the context of a speech event.
▪ The architecture of these tubes resembles the biomorph tree at the bottom of Figure 2 in the previous chapter.
▪ The component is original in its use of the Chart-based architecture described in the previous chapter.
social
▪ The commission promises that its proposals under the social chapter will be squeaky-clean in their impact on jobs.
▪ Mr Major bragged about his opt-out from the social chapter, saying that it would attract foreign investment from Britain's neighbours.
▪ The social chapter was always going to be the item over which the opposition forces would coalesce.
▪ The Prime Minister I most certainly agree with that view, which is why I declined to sign the social chapter.
▪ The majority of people voted in favour of parties that advocate the inclusion of the social chapter, but the Government rejects it.
▪ The guests were discussing the treaty's social chapter, low pay and a national minimum wage.
▪ Even opting out of the social chapter to undercut the core on labour costs will not ultimately compensate for complete isolation.
▪ Under Labour he would have got it: full commitment to the social chapter and to political and economic union.
■ VERB
consider
▪ How such enquiries might be conducted is a question which is considered in the next chapter.
▪ These are some questions considered in this chapter.
▪ It is convenient to consider separately in this chapter a number of other exact solutions that satisfy this same condition.
▪ The possible impacts of these new information technologies are considered later in this chapter.
▪ It is this topic which will be considered in the next chapter.
▪ They are considered in chapters 2 to 7 and elsewhere.
▪ Some of these clauses have been considered earlier in this chapter.
describe
▪ Production of this kind is described in the next chapter.
▪ In the next ten years, these leaders will shepherd their companies through the changes we have described in this chapter.
▪ It is these roles and how they were established that 1 shall describe in this chapter.
▪ The tallest Western species is the coast redwood, which I described in an earlier chapter.
▪ As we will describe in the final chapter, we should plan from strength and not from weakness.
▪ Imitation or nondairy milk was described earlier in this chapter.
▪ It is extremely important, therefore, to follow the general principles on meal planning that we described earlier in the chapter.
▪ Yet the experiences described in this chapter suggest that a more extensive collaboration with the schools is both possible and doable.
discuss
▪ His work, to be discussed in a later chapter, was very uneven.
▪ The means of expression discussed in this chapter unfold from one another as the opening petals of a flower.
▪ These are discussed in this chapter.
▪ More detailed cost breakdowns are discussed later in this chapter.
▪ Procedural rules which apply to specific applications or orders are discussed in the relevant chapters.
▪ These issues will be discussed further in chapter 7.
▪ The next layer of the tree integrates major areas like geomancy, which will be discussed in the next chapter.
▪ The relationship between bonding and properties was discussed in chapter 2.
examine
▪ This important intermediary role and its consequences are examined in later chapters.
▪ The problems and pitfalls of identifying work-inhibited stu-dents are examined in this chapter.
▪ Its effect was particularly damaging in relation to the recurrent tragedies of death in childhood, which are examined in the next chapter.
▪ Each of these areas will be examined in this chapter.
▪ Some of the above points will be examined in later chapters.
▪ We shall be examining this in another chapter.
▪ Galileo's conception of biblical authority will be examined later in the chapter.
▪ These and other similarly familiar issues are examined in chapter 4 in the light of changing international circumstance.
explain
▪ The null hypothesis that can then be tested by using the F distribution as explained in chapter 3.
▪ These will be explained in the next chapter.
▪ How to choose the right model complexity is explained in these chapters.
▪ As was explained in the previous chapter, the architecture of upper-class housing itself became increasingly divisive.
▪ This is a very good and clearly explained chapter.
▪ They are explained in the previous chapter.
follow
▪ Such an analysis is an important prerequisite to much of the discussion that follows in succeeding chapters.
▪ The following chapters provide step-by-step instructions for practical applications.
▪ In the following chapters I survey this unified bionic frontier.
▪ This is covered in detail in the following chapters.
▪ Then, check for each of the points listed in the following section of this chapter.
▪ There are many, very good procedures for cleanup, extraction and determinations in the following chapters.
▪ We propose to deal with this subject in the following chapter.
include
▪ The new edition includes a new chapter on smoking among pregnant women.
▪ The manual, conceived with input from nearly everyone in the organization, also includes a chapter on a code of conduct.
▪ A brief chapter on smart structures is also included.
▪ For convenience, biographies will be included in the present chapter, while catalogues will be treated in the next.
▪ In our first Report on the primary stages we included an early chapter which tried to summarise our views with simple eloquence.
mention
▪ The initial attempts at the solution of this problem are mentioned in the next chapter.
▪ This leads to the feature mentioned in chapter 7, topology-preserving maps.
▪ Hartley Coleridge's comment has been mentioned in an earlier chapter, and it emphasises his industry.
▪ As well as all the standard treatment mentioned in earlier chapters, you will doubtless hear about many other possibilities.
▪ Are any post-operative observations or procedures carried out in your ward that have not been mentioned in this chapter?
▪ The importance of preparation has already been mentioned in the previous chapter.
note
▪ Rights of audience before tribunals are much wider as noted in chapters 12 and 13.
▪ As noted in chapter 4, its action program originally was based on pamphleteering and letter-writing to persuade anti-Semites of their error.
▪ The concrete form in which the host may benefit is, as noted in the previous chapter, the creation of linkages.
▪ According to the beholder, the color white can mean a variety of things as noted in the chapter.
▪ A further example is the critique by Baudrillard of utility as privileged signified, which was noted in chapter 3.
▪ Indeed, as we have noted in chapter 2, librarians are amongst its biggest users.
▪ It has already been noted in chapter 1 how efficiency and equity principles are inextricably linked.
▪ Examples are noted below and in chapter 5.
outline
▪ McGrath and Solter's experiments outlined in chapter 6 illustrate some of the idea.
▪ The formal elements of this type of government will be more fully outlined in the next chapter.
▪ A: We outline every chapter.
▪ This does not compare with the ease of reference to actual original documentation in the manual system outlined earlier in this chapter.
▪ Many such children have some of the physical sensitivities we described for Hannah and outlined earlier in this chapter.
▪ The economic and social problems of the second Labour government have already been outlined in the first chapter.
precede
▪ But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis.
▪ Could the kinds of experience we have described in the preceding chapters be systematically developed?
▪ Some of those goals have been discussed in the preceding chapter.
▪ The preceding chapters have outlined many of the likely areas of difficulty.
▪ Such entitlement should be included in the plan I have proposed in the preceding chapters.
▪ The orientations of the political culture identified in the preceding chapter remain.
read
▪ However, we hope that you will take time to read the chapters that precede the recipes, menus and diet charts.
▪ I am also willing to read later chapters.
▪ He folded back a page at random and read the chapter heading.
▪ For John and me, it has worked best to read chapter books.
▪ I found it helpful to read the chapters on power ultrasound, commercially available equipment and scale - up considerations together.
▪ Having read the previous chapters of this book, you know better.
▪ If that is the case, just don't read this chapter.
▪ When I speak of reading aloud short chapter books, then, these are not the ones I have in mind.
see
▪ Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period, as will be seen in the next chapter.
▪ Aegeus then proclaimed to the country that Theseus was See next chapter. his son and heir.
▪ The significance of this will be seen in the next chapter.
▪ And I must say I was surprised to see your chapter on the Raven.
▪ As will be seen throughout this chapter, there are wide local variations in selection procedures and in training.
▪ As we will see in chapter 10, this version of the idea theory is also problematic.
▪ Indeed, as we shall see in our concluding chapter.
suggest
▪ This may include some purposeful interviews along the lines of one of the approaches to be suggested in this chapter.
▪ Try any one of the resources suggested in these chapters.
write
▪ This is one very powerful reason why I am writing this chapter.
▪ This is a very well written chapter and covers material not normally found in other analytical chemistry texts.
▪ We write the first two chapters together so we have an idea of the characters.
▪ The older one was that of the Evangelicals and Dissenters, of whom more will be written in chapter three.
▪ But now it is the Clinton administration that may be writing the last chapter.
▪ Morton wrote the new chapter after friends of Diana got in touch with him.
▪ Obviously written by experts these chapters make interesting and informative reading.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the following afternoon/month/page/chapter etc
▪ And she had returned the following afternoon, carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack.
▪ Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.
▪ Expansion and application of some of those ideas will be pursued in the following chapters.
▪ I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.
▪ In the following chapters, I emphasize what can be done, not what will be done.
▪ The receiving company went into liquidation the following month.
▪ We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.
the previous day/chapter/owner etc
▪ Chapter 8 provides a summary of the findings from the previous chapters and draws conclusions.
▪ If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously, however, there is a challenge which faces us all.
▪ In the previous chapter we hypothesized that potential entrants assume that the industry price will not be affected by their entry.
▪ Instead of travelling with the security truck carrying the money, Morgan had checked out the area round the bank the previous day.
▪ Perceptions of health status One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status.
▪ The Coroner's inquest had been held in Southwold the previous day and he had attended with Evelyn.
▪ The detailed history in the previous chapters has given an account of Ian Paisley's personal combination of religion and politics.
▪ The temperature then was 41 after the game was postponed the previous day because of freezing rain and snow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 'Have you finished "Lord of the Rings" yet?' 'I'm on the last chapter.'
▪ For homework, read the first two chapters of the book.
▪ She was a volunteer with various chapters of the Junior League.
▪ The Christmas story is told in Chapter 2, verses 1-20 of Luke.
▪ These matters are dealt with in Chapters 8 & 9.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A careful strategic analysis as described in chapter 4 will help to lessen the disadvantages of using leading indicators.
▪ A more detailed example will be given in the next chapter.
▪ In chapters 15 to 17 we apply to the individual profile components the principles set out in chapter 14.
▪ In chapters 6 and 7 I would like to propose a characterization of grammar and language use which shows their interdependence.
▪ In the next chapter we consider the subject and problems of commitment.
▪ In this chapter, we illustrated such pragmatic influences on processing by discussing context effects.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chapter

Chapter \Chap"ter\, v. t.

  1. To divide into chapters, as a book.
    --Fuller.

  2. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

Chapter

Chapter \Chap"ter\, n. [OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See Chief, and cf, Chapiter.]

  1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

  2. (Eccl.)

    1. 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.

    2. A community of canons or canonesses.

    3. A bishop's council.

    4. A business meeting of any religious community.

  3. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
    --Robertson.

  4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

  5. A chapter house. [R.]
    --Burrill.

  6. A decretal epistle.
    --Ayliffe.

  7. A location or compartment.

    In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
    --Shak.

    Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title.

    Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter.

    The chapter of accidents, chance.
    --Marryat.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chapter

c.1200, "main division of a book," from Old French chapitre (12c.) "chapter (of a book), article (of a treaty), chapter (of a cathedral)," alteration of chapitle, from Late Latin capitulum, diminutive of caput (genitive capitis) "head" (see capitulum). Sense of "local branch" (1815) is from cathedral sense (late 15c.), which seems to trace to convocations of canons at cathedral churches, during which the rules of the order by chapter, or a chapter (capitulum) of Scripture, were read aloud to the assembled. Chapter and verse "in full and thoroughly" (1620s) is a reference to Scripture.

Wiktionary
chapter

n. 1 One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided. 2 A section of a social or religious body. 3 #An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific are

  1. 4 #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. 5 #A community of canons or canonesses. 6 #A bishop's council. 7 #An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons. 8 #A meeting of certain organized societies or orders. 9 #A chapter house. 10 A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue. 11 A decretal epistle. 12 (lb en obsolete) A location or compartment. v

  2. 1 To divide into chapters. 2 To put into a chapter. 3 (context military with "out" English) To use administrative procedure to remove someone.

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WordNet
chapter

  1. n. a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"

  2. 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"

  3. a local branch of some fraternity or association; "he joined the Atlanta chapter"

  4. an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church

  5. a series of related events forming an episode; "a chapter of disasters"

Wikipedia
Chapter

Chapter may refer to:

  • Chapter (books), a main division of a piece of writing or document
  • Chapter book, a story book intended for intermediate readers, generally age 7-10
  • Chapter (religion), an assembly of members in a religious order
  • Chapter Arts Centre, a cultural centre in Cardiff, Wales
  • Chapter house, a building attached to a cathedral or collegiate church
  • Chapter Music, a record label
  • A local assembly of a trade union
Chapter (books)

A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length, such as a book of prose, poetry, or law. In each case, chapters can be numbered or titled or both. An example of a chapter that has become well known is "Down the Rabbit-Hole", which is the first chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Chapter (religion)

Chapter ( Latin: capitulum) designates certain corporate ecclesiastical bodies in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Nordic Lutheran churches.

The word is said to be derived from the chapter of the rule book: it is a custom under the Rule of Saint Benedict that monks or nuns gather daily for a meeting to discuss monastery business, hear a sermon or lecture, or receive instructions from the abbot/abbess, and as the meeting begins with a reading of a chapter from the Rule, the meeting itself acquired the name "chapter", and the place where it is held, " chapter house" or "chapter room".

The term was then extended to apply to other meetings. The term general chapter designates a monastic general assembly, usually of representatives from all of the monasteries of an order or congregation. The Chapter of Mats is the term for a similar meeting of representatives of various provinces and subgroups of the Franciscan family of communities. A chapter of faults is held regularly by many religious communities at which members are both corrected for infractions against the community's rule, or accuse themselves of their faults and ask for a penance to be prescribed (this is not the Catholic Sacrament of Penance or "Confession"—monks and nuns are generally barred from confessing actual sins in a chapter of faults, but do confess "imperfections" and minor faults in abiding by monastic rules).

From these conventual chapters or meetings of monks for the transaction of business connected with their monasteries or orders, the designation passed over to somewhat analogous assemblies of other ecclesiastics. Hence, one speaks of "collegiate chapters" and of " cathedral chapters", both of which comprise the canons connected to the cathedral or other church ("collegiate" here refers to the "college" or community of canons to whom the church has been entrusted). In general a chapter is an association of clerics of a certain church forming a moral body and instituted by ecclesiastical authority for the purpose of promoting the divine worship by means of choir service. If it be a cathedral chapter, however, its principal object is to assist the bishop in the government of his diocese, and the choir service is only secondary.

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Usage examples of "chapter".

CHAPTER XII THE SECOND OBLONG BOX When Cleggett returned to the ship he found Captain Abernethy in conversation with a young man of deprecating manner whom the Captain introduced as the Rev.

I discussed earlier in Chapter 1, such an aestheticizing of the political is a defining feature of fascism.

With this the publishers desired to incorporate a chapter giving the latest views of Agassiz upon classification and evolution.

CHAPTER XIX Occupation at Athens--Mount Pentilicus--We descend into the Caverns-- Return to Athens--A Greek Contract of Marriage--Various Athenian and Albanian Superstitions--Effect of their Impression on the Genius of the Poet During his residence at Athens, Lord Byron made almost daily excursions on horseback, chiefly for exercise and to see the localities of celebrated spots.

Chapter 60 While Nathaniel was gone to Albany to see aunt Merriweather settled in for another visit with the Schuylers, the winter seemed to give up its purpose and fall back.

CHAPTER IX MORALES RECEIVES A VISITOR IT was scarcely more than a mile from the cottage where Alfredo Morales lived to the Westbrook Inn.

CHAPTER XLVII THE PROMISED LAND One sunset, shortly after his marriage, word came to the tent of Kenkenes that an Amalekite chieftain on his way to Egypt had paused for the night just without the encampment of Israel.

They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.

Chapter 13 The trail up to Mesa Verde was easy enough to follow, and two days later, Longarm and Miranda came upon their first Anasazi ruins.

Chapter Eleven, findings which suggest that the great Andean city of Tiahuanaco flourished during the last Ice Age in the deep, dark, moonless midnight of prehistory.

CHAPTER 1 Private investigator Andi Wicksham stood at the edge of a double row of small holes aligned in a field with similar rows holding miniature winter-bare roses.

CHAPTER 6 The next morning Andi scratched restlessly at the top layer of her pending box and answered phones while Lena soared off on a round of morning errands.

CHAPTER 7 Back in their office the next morning, Lena set up coffee while Andi punched in a call to Ramirez.

It will be recalled that in his fortieth chapter he waxes enthusiastic over Lewis Morris, the Welsh bard, who was born in Anglesey in 1700 and died in 1765.

CHAPTER IV MAGENDIE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES It may be doubted whether any physiologist has ever lived whose cruelty to animals exceeded that which, for a long period, was exercised by Franc,ois Magendie.