chapter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.

   “At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics,”

3. isim An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
4. isim A community of canons or canonesses.
5. isim A bishop's council.
6. isim An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
7. isim An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.

   “If the By-Law which admits honorary members is silent upon their rights, they may perhaps be determined by a consideration of which of these classes was intended by the Chapter in admitting them”

8. isim A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
9. isim A chapter house
10. isim 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.”

11. isim A location or compartment.

    “In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?”

12. isim A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
13. fiil To divide into chapters.
14. fiil To put into a chapter.
15. fiil 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.”

16. fiil To take to task.