Department
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A part, portion, or subdivision. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics. A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac. Act of departing; departure.
Example sentence: I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Division
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or process of dividing anything.Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.(uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.A calculation that involves this process.A military formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.A section of a large company.A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rankA disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.