Section and Tract

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Section noun - An area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature.

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Tract is a synonym for section in division topic. In some cases you can use "Tract" instead a noun "Section".

Nearby Words: sectioned, sector, sect, sectioning, sectional

Tract noun - A broad geographical area.

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Section is a synonym for tract in area topic. Sometimes you can use "Section" instead a noun "Tract".

Nearby Words: tractable, tractate

special	special section	special tract
long	long section	long tract
similar	similar section	similar tract
short	short section	short tract
Other adjectives: upper, top, single, entire, vocal, massive, large, big, huge, tiny, infamous, lower, destroyed, hidden, extended, giant.

Critics of YU+ME: dream have branded it an author tract, saying that all straight characters are portrayed as evil, especially in the first section.

Source: Author Tract
The middle section of Babylon 5 — the part with Nightwatch and the Ministry of Truth — has been accused of being an Author Tract against the War on Terror and the Bush Administration in general.

Source: Older Than They Think / Live-Action TV
Also each book takes a moment and makes you read a section "aimed" at the people of the earth to encourage them to accept Christ, but this is a very thinly veiled tract aimed at any readers who aren't already Christians.

Source: Literature / Left Behind

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