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Compartment definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPARTMENT, n.
1. A division or separate part of a general design, as of a picture, or of a ground-plot.
2. A design composed of several different figures, disposed with symmetry, for ornament; as a compartment of tiles or bricks, duly arranged, of various colors and varnished, to decorate a building. In gardening, compartments are assemblages of beds, plots, borders, walks, etc. In heraldry, a compartment is called also a partition.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a space into which an area is subdivided
2: a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from compartire to mark out in parts, from Late Latin compartiri to share out, from Latin com- + partiri to share, from part-, pars part, share Date: circa 1578 1. a separate division or section 2. one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided • compartmental adjective II. transitive verb Date: 1918 compartmentalize

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a space within a larger space, separated from the rest by partitions, e.g. in a railway carriage, wallet, desk, etc. 2 Naut. a watertight division of a ship. 3 an area of activity etc. kept apart from others in a person's mind. --v.tr. put into compartments. Derivatives: compartmentation n. Etymology: F compartiment f. It. compartimento f. LL compartiri (as COM-, partiri share)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Compartment Com*part"ment, n. [F. compartiment, OF. compartir to divide. See Compart.] 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. --Carew. 2. (Shipbuilding) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(compartments) 1. A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided. On the way home we shared our first class compartment with a group of businessmen. N-COUNT 2. A compartment is one of the separate parts of an object that is used for keeping things in. ...the secret compartment of my jewel box. N-COUNT see also glove compartment

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Division, section, separate part.

Moby Thesaurus

alcove, bay, below, between-decks, boiler room, booth, box, brig, bunker, cabin, caboose, camboose, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, chart room, conning tower, crib, crypt, cubicle, division, enclosed space, engine room, forecastle, forepeak, galley, head, hold, hole, hollow, lazaret, locker, manger, niche, part, partition, pew, pilothouse, quarters, radio room, roundhouse, sail loft, section, sick bay, slot, space, stall, stateroom, stokehold, topside, vault, wardroom