Definition of compartment in English:

compartment

noun kəmˈpɑːtm(ə)ntkəmˈpɑrtmənt

1A separate section or part of a structure or container.
there's some ice cream in the freezer compartment
Example sentencesExamples
- It also features a separate shoe compartment to store and protect shoes up to size U.S. men's 13.
- The lower section even contains a compartment offering an additional five litres of storage space.
- Everyday tasks such as going to the supermarket are tough when you can't reach the shelves or peer into the freezer compartments.
- I only discovered our fridge had a freezer compartment 6 weeks ago.
- Delivery vans are equipped with fridge and freezer compartments in order to ensure goods arrive in perfect condition.
- Similar to an airplane meal in presentation, the food is served in various compartments of a square container that can be used for everything from a takeout lunch to a well-balanced supper.
- It has a deluxe extendable handle that locks into place, as well as a separate shoe compartment and six large accessory pockets.
- Use the local fishmonger instead of buying fish fingers from the freezer compartment.
- Each of the three compartments inside contains a muddle of cheap plastic widgets.
- On that occasion, the group had braved freezing conditions crammed under a carriage in a compartment designed for luggage or freight.
- He found a large plastic container in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator containing what appeared to be frozen soup.
- These may be as simple as a moveable bin formed by wire mesh or a more substantial structure consisting of several compartments.
- More smoke sensors will be installed and internal walls will be extended upwards into the roof void to create compartments to help to contain the spread of any future fire.
- There's also a separate shoe compartment with locking zippers.
- A container with no set compartments or shelves can be modified and improved.
- Indeed, imagine a box divided by a partition into two compartments.
- Veréd Cosmetiqué's bronzing powder is encased in a beautiful silver compact with a mirror and separate compartment for the brush applicator.
- Lunchtime would see meals served in pressed metal trays with different compartments where the railway catering staff has placed the rice, curd, vegetables, and a curl of pickle with a pinch of salt.
- There should be compartments and pockets and pouches to hold stuff like your coins, keys and cell phone
- I appreciated the small compartments as a business traveler.
Synonyms
section, part, partition, bay, recess, chamber, cavity, niche, nook, hollow
pocket, pouch, receptacle
1. 1.1 A division of a railway carriage marked by partitions.
  a first-class compartment
  Example sentencesExamples
  The next thing she knew, she was lying on the floor of the first-class compartment being worked on by two doctors.
  The sequence built around the delivery of a child in a railway compartment is movingly handled.
  I forgot to mention that the PA system in our compartment doesn't work.
  However, there are also trains with first class compartments and air conditioning, which are clean, comfortable, and cost about the same price as taking a plane for the same distance.
  Since our compartment was at the downstairs rear of the last car on the train, we were last for dinner reservations call.
  In sleeping carriages as well as in trains with only one carriage, smoking compartments must be designated.
  For the time being, home was a railway compartment with a very hard bunk, in a train which made many inexplicable stops.
  The carriage which included the two compartments in question was uncoupled and side-tracked.
  That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left).
  The teak-bodied carriage has two first-class compartments - one for smokers and the other for non-smokers - and two toilets.
  Tickets cost 22 leva an adult for first class compartments.
  I don't know why but it was not blacked out so you could see in the compartment.
  On one of the tables in the first class compartments were two empty bottles of champagne.
  As for ringing ahead to my parents waiting to pick me up, I ensure that I leave the carriage compartment when I ring them.
  Vronsky noticed the charming woman as he made his way to the first-class compartment that he shared with his mother.
  We reserved 6 reclining seats - 3 and 3 facing each other in a closed compartment.
  At workplaces, bus-stations and inside railway compartments, the blabber is scarcely about anything but cricket.
  Chuckling, the gentleman opened the door leading from the reserved coach to the sleeping compartments beyond.
  As the railway compartment became a popular venue for fictional mayhem when crime fiction flowered from the later Victorian years almost all cases involved men attacking men.
  He was, moreover, renowned for the speed with which he could dash off an article in a railway compartment, a cricket pavilion, or in whatever place he could snatch a few minutes.
2. 1.2 A division of a ship's hull.
  the aft cargo compartment
  Example sentencesExamples
  Personnel being trapped in refrigerated compartments on-board ships were also reported in 1999 and 2003.
  A hiss of steam emitted from the aft compartment and the mechanical whir indicated the descending of the rear ramp.
  The ‘ship’ is equipped with a bridge, crew's cabins and engine and lower deck compartments to make the training as authentic as possible.
  The grounding tore a hole in her hull below the waterline, flooding several compartments, but no one was injured.
  All her aft compartments flooded, swiftly sending the boat to the muddy floor of the loch, 55 ft down.
  And there is the intellectual unevenness between the different portions, often sealed off like the compartments in a ship's hold, of each individual's brain and soul.
  These involved checking the compartments of his ship and inspecting personnel.
  The thing that has limited our ability to put women to sea has been the time and cost to modify the berthing compartments on existing ships.
  The collision allowed tons of water to flood several compartments in the forward section of the ship, including missile and gun magazines and a junior rates' mess.
  The impact tore a hole in her hull, flooding several compartments, but she was able to free herself.
  Armor bulkheads separate the crew compartment from the fuel tanks.
  The fuselage was of aluminum alloy semi-monocoque construction with passenger, crew, and cargo compartments that were pressurized for high altitude flight.
  Passengers will ride in the main compartment aft of the cargo spaces.
  Additionally an escape hatch in the forward and after compartments of the pressure hull were fitted, an innovation which saved many lives during the war.
  The other three cargo compartments are below deck.
  There were no stairs to the primary compartments of the ship.
  To their credit the builders have used bulkheads that are watertight between the hull and cabin soles to divide the boat into three separate compartments.
  The submarine has two separate pressure hulls with a diameter of 7.2 m each, five inner habitable hulls and 19 compartments.
  He turned back to the aft compartment, and then paused.
  Only when the doors of their compartment on the transport ship closed was she able to relax again.
3. 1.3 An area in which something can be considered in isolation from other things.
  religion and politics should be kept in different compartments
  Example sentencesExamples
  You've got to talk about soccer in two different compartments: in the recreational community end, it actually has continued to grow, indeed prosper, in spite of the poor administration at the top end.
  She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will.
  Inside our head there are various departments, compartments, areas and domains that contain information.
  Synonyms
  domain, field, sphere, realm, area, department, sector, section, division, part
  category, pigeonhole, bracket, class, group, set
2Heraldry
A grassy mound or other support depicted below a shield.

verb kəmˈpɑːtm(ə)ntkəmˈpɑrtmənt

[with object]

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.
the buildings are to be compartmented by fire walls
Example sentencesExamples
- I mentioned the plot was tightly compartmented.
- This is the reality today - people compartmenting risk management and thinking that managing risk incrementally, without the big picture context, is working.
- Their work is highly compartmented to a small group of people, probably living in a cave somewhere, and our country doesn't keep secrets very well.
- But the truth is that I just don't know how such information would be compartmented.
- You didn't even need a specially compartmented top-secret clearance to divine what was going on in the case.
- The result, though, was what have come to be called ‘organizational stovepipes’: a tightly compartmented flow of information from the target, through the collection process, through the analyst, to the consumer.
- Typical approaches include compartmenting information by functional area (Finance, Engineering, Executive), by business unit, or by customer.
- The precautions will include fire compartmenting, which is quite expensive and will involve a great deal of work because we will have to build firebreak walls to contain the house in compartments.
- Thus, the capacity of plants to counteract salinity stress may strongly depend on their ability to compartment ions in the vacuole and to minimize ionic changes in the cytosol.
- We could compartment it more and look at the costs and consequences of that.
Synonyms
divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember

Derivatives

compartmentation

noun kəmpɑːtmɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n

It's a direct violation of basic tradecraft and the principle of compartmentation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Common fire compartmentation of all vertical shafts can minimize wall thickness provided the structural designer is satisfied with the core stability in the overall design of the building.
- This hair-raising essay is implicitly a powerful argument for alternative analysis, interagency intelligence sharing, and the breaking down of compartmentation.
- But he made no findings as to what additional costs would have been involved if EPS panels had been replaced in the areas adjacent to the flues and if compartmentation had been introduced.
- The intelligence traditions of hierarchy, compartmentation, and isolating consumers from producers are currently limiting the effectiveness of this technology.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from compartire, from late Latin compartiri 'divide'.

Definition of compartment in US English:

compartment

nounkəmˈpärtməntkəmˈpɑrtmənt

1A separate section of a structure or container in which certain items can be kept separate from others.
there's some ice cream in the freezer compartment
Example sentencesExamples
- It has a deluxe extendable handle that locks into place, as well as a separate shoe compartment and six large accessory pockets.
- Delivery vans are equipped with fridge and freezer compartments in order to ensure goods arrive in perfect condition.
- Veréd Cosmetiqué's bronzing powder is encased in a beautiful silver compact with a mirror and separate compartment for the brush applicator.
- It also features a separate shoe compartment to store and protect shoes up to size U.S. men's 13.
- Each of the three compartments inside contains a muddle of cheap plastic widgets.
- Use the local fishmonger instead of buying fish fingers from the freezer compartment.
- The lower section even contains a compartment offering an additional five litres of storage space.
- Lunchtime would see meals served in pressed metal trays with different compartments where the railway catering staff has placed the rice, curd, vegetables, and a curl of pickle with a pinch of salt.
- On that occasion, the group had braved freezing conditions crammed under a carriage in a compartment designed for luggage or freight.
- He found a large plastic container in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator containing what appeared to be frozen soup.
- These may be as simple as a moveable bin formed by wire mesh or a more substantial structure consisting of several compartments.
- A container with no set compartments or shelves can be modified and improved.
- There should be compartments and pockets and pouches to hold stuff like your coins, keys and cell phone
- Similar to an airplane meal in presentation, the food is served in various compartments of a square container that can be used for everything from a takeout lunch to a well-balanced supper.
- Everyday tasks such as going to the supermarket are tough when you can't reach the shelves or peer into the freezer compartments.
- More smoke sensors will be installed and internal walls will be extended upwards into the roof void to create compartments to help to contain the spread of any future fire.
- I appreciated the small compartments as a business traveler.
- I only discovered our fridge had a freezer compartment 6 weeks ago.
- There's also a separate shoe compartment with locking zippers.
- Indeed, imagine a box divided by a partition into two compartments.
Synonyms
section, part, partition, bay, recess, chamber, cavity, niche, nook, hollow
1. 1.1 A division of a railroad car marked by partitions.
  a first-class compartment
  Example sentencesExamples
  We reserved 6 reclining seats - 3 and 3 facing each other in a closed compartment.
  The teak-bodied carriage has two first-class compartments - one for smokers and the other for non-smokers - and two toilets.
  At workplaces, bus-stations and inside railway compartments, the blabber is scarcely about anything but cricket.
  I don't know why but it was not blacked out so you could see in the compartment.
  The sequence built around the delivery of a child in a railway compartment is movingly handled.
  As for ringing ahead to my parents waiting to pick me up, I ensure that I leave the carriage compartment when I ring them.
  As the railway compartment became a popular venue for fictional mayhem when crime fiction flowered from the later Victorian years almost all cases involved men attacking men.
  For the time being, home was a railway compartment with a very hard bunk, in a train which made many inexplicable stops.
  The next thing she knew, she was lying on the floor of the first-class compartment being worked on by two doctors.
  However, there are also trains with first class compartments and air conditioning, which are clean, comfortable, and cost about the same price as taking a plane for the same distance.
  He was, moreover, renowned for the speed with which he could dash off an article in a railway compartment, a cricket pavilion, or in whatever place he could snatch a few minutes.
  Since our compartment was at the downstairs rear of the last car on the train, we were last for dinner reservations call.
  On one of the tables in the first class compartments were two empty bottles of champagne.
  I forgot to mention that the PA system in our compartment doesn't work.
  Tickets cost 22 leva an adult for first class compartments.
  Chuckling, the gentleman opened the door leading from the reserved coach to the sleeping compartments beyond.
  That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left).
  In sleeping carriages as well as in trains with only one carriage, smoking compartments must be designated.
  The carriage which included the two compartments in question was uncoupled and side-tracked.
  Vronsky noticed the charming woman as he made his way to the first-class compartment that he shared with his mother.
2. 1.2 A watertight section of a ship's hull.
  the aft cargo compartment
  Example sentencesExamples
  Additionally an escape hatch in the forward and after compartments of the pressure hull were fitted, an innovation which saved many lives during the war.
  There were no stairs to the primary compartments of the ship.
  The collision allowed tons of water to flood several compartments in the forward section of the ship, including missile and gun magazines and a junior rates' mess.
  Only when the doors of their compartment on the transport ship closed was she able to relax again.
  And there is the intellectual unevenness between the different portions, often sealed off like the compartments in a ship's hold, of each individual's brain and soul.
  The thing that has limited our ability to put women to sea has been the time and cost to modify the berthing compartments on existing ships.
  Armor bulkheads separate the crew compartment from the fuel tanks.
  The impact tore a hole in her hull, flooding several compartments, but she was able to free herself.
  He turned back to the aft compartment, and then paused.
  These involved checking the compartments of his ship and inspecting personnel.
  All her aft compartments flooded, swiftly sending the boat to the muddy floor of the loch, 55 ft down.
  The grounding tore a hole in her hull below the waterline, flooding several compartments, but no one was injured.
  The submarine has two separate pressure hulls with a diameter of 7.2 m each, five inner habitable hulls and 19 compartments.
  The fuselage was of aluminum alloy semi-monocoque construction with passenger, crew, and cargo compartments that were pressurized for high altitude flight.
  Personnel being trapped in refrigerated compartments on-board ships were also reported in 1999 and 2003.
  The ‘ship’ is equipped with a bridge, crew's cabins and engine and lower deck compartments to make the training as authentic as possible.
  To their credit the builders have used bulkheads that are watertight between the hull and cabin soles to divide the boat into three separate compartments.
  The other three cargo compartments are below deck.
  A hiss of steam emitted from the aft compartment and the mechanical whir indicated the descending of the rear ramp.
  Passengers will ride in the main compartment aft of the cargo spaces.
3. 1.3 An area in which something can be considered in isolation from other things.
  religion and politics should be kept in different compartments
  Example sentencesExamples
  Inside our head there are various departments, compartments, areas and domains that contain information.
  You've got to talk about soccer in two different compartments: in the recreational community end, it actually has continued to grow, indeed prosper, in spite of the poor administration at the top end.
  She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will.
  Synonyms
  domain, field, sphere, realm, area, department, sector, section, division, part
2Heraldry
A grassy mound or other support depicted below a shield.

verbkəmˈpärtməntkəmˈpɑrtmənt

[with object]usually be compartmented

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.
the buildings are to be compartmented by fire walls
Example sentencesExamples
- But the truth is that I just don't know how such information would be compartmented.
- The precautions will include fire compartmenting, which is quite expensive and will involve a great deal of work because we will have to build firebreak walls to contain the house in compartments.
- The result, though, was what have come to be called ‘organizational stovepipes’: a tightly compartmented flow of information from the target, through the collection process, through the analyst, to the consumer.
- This is the reality today - people compartmenting risk management and thinking that managing risk incrementally, without the big picture context, is working.
- We could compartment it more and look at the costs and consequences of that.
- Their work is highly compartmented to a small group of people, probably living in a cave somewhere, and our country doesn't keep secrets very well.
- Typical approaches include compartmenting information by functional area (Finance, Engineering, Executive), by business unit, or by customer.
- You didn't even need a specially compartmented top-secret clearance to divine what was going on in the case.
- Thus, the capacity of plants to counteract salinity stress may strongly depend on their ability to compartment ions in the vacuole and to minimize ionic changes in the cytosol.
- I mentioned the plot was tightly compartmented.
Synonyms
divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from compartire, from late Latin compartiri ‘divide’.

单词	compartment
释义	Definition of compartment in English: compartment noun kəmˈpɑːtm(ə)ntkəmˈpɑrtmənt 1A separate section or part of a structure or container. there's some ice cream in the freezer compartment Example sentencesExamples It also features a separate shoe compartment to store and protect shoes up to size U.S. men's 13. The lower section even contains a compartment offering an additional five litres of storage space. Everyday tasks such as going to the supermarket are tough when you can't reach the shelves or peer into the freezer compartments. I only discovered our fridge had a freezer compartment 6 weeks ago. Delivery vans are equipped with fridge and freezer compartments in order to ensure goods arrive in perfect condition. Similar to an airplane meal in presentation, the food is served in various compartments of a square container that can be used for everything from a takeout lunch to a well-balanced supper. It has a deluxe extendable handle that locks into place, as well as a separate shoe compartment and six large accessory pockets. Use the local fishmonger instead of buying fish fingers from the freezer compartment. Each of the three compartments inside contains a muddle of cheap plastic widgets. On that occasion, the group had braved freezing conditions crammed under a carriage in a compartment designed for luggage or freight. He found a large plastic container in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator containing what appeared to be frozen soup. These may be as simple as a moveable bin formed by wire mesh or a more substantial structure consisting of several compartments. More smoke sensors will be installed and internal walls will be extended upwards into the roof void to create compartments to help to contain the spread of any future fire. There's also a separate shoe compartment with locking zippers. A container with no set compartments or shelves can be modified and improved. Indeed, imagine a box divided by a partition into two compartments. Veréd Cosmetiqué's bronzing powder is encased in a beautiful silver compact with a mirror and separate compartment for the brush applicator. Lunchtime would see meals served in pressed metal trays with different compartments where the railway catering staff has placed the rice, curd, vegetables, and a curl of pickle with a pinch of salt. There should be compartments and pockets and pouches to hold stuff like your coins, keys and cell phone I appreciated the small compartments as a business traveler. Synonyms section, part, partition, bay, recess, chamber, cavity, niche, nook, hollow pocket, pouch, receptacle 1.1 A division of a railway carriage marked by partitions. a first-class compartment Example sentencesExamples The next thing she knew, she was lying on the floor of the first-class compartment being worked on by two doctors. The sequence built around the delivery of a child in a railway compartment is movingly handled. I forgot to mention that the PA system in our compartment doesn't work. However, there are also trains with first class compartments and air conditioning, which are clean, comfortable, and cost about the same price as taking a plane for the same distance. Since our compartment was at the downstairs rear of the last car on the train, we were last for dinner reservations call. In sleeping carriages as well as in trains with only one carriage, smoking compartments must be designated. For the time being, home was a railway compartment with a very hard bunk, in a train which made many inexplicable stops. The carriage which included the two compartments in question was uncoupled and side-tracked. That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left). The teak-bodied carriage has two first-class compartments - one for smokers and the other for non-smokers - and two toilets. Tickets cost 22 leva an adult for first class compartments. I don't know why but it was not blacked out so you could see in the compartment. On one of the tables in the first class compartments were two empty bottles of champagne. As for ringing ahead to my parents waiting to pick me up, I ensure that I leave the carriage compartment when I ring them. Vronsky noticed the charming woman as he made his way to the first-class compartment that he shared with his mother. We reserved 6 reclining seats - 3 and 3 facing each other in a closed compartment. At workplaces, bus-stations and inside railway compartments, the blabber is scarcely about anything but cricket. Chuckling, the gentleman opened the door leading from the reserved coach to the sleeping compartments beyond. As the railway compartment became a popular venue for fictional mayhem when crime fiction flowered from the later Victorian years almost all cases involved men attacking men. He was, moreover, renowned for the speed with which he could dash off an article in a railway compartment, a cricket pavilion, or in whatever place he could snatch a few minutes. 1.2 A division of a ship's hull. the aft cargo compartment Example sentencesExamples Personnel being trapped in refrigerated compartments on-board ships were also reported in 1999 and 2003. A hiss of steam emitted from the aft compartment and the mechanical whir indicated the descending of the rear ramp. The ‘ship’ is equipped with a bridge, crew's cabins and engine and lower deck compartments to make the training as authentic as possible. The grounding tore a hole in her hull below the waterline, flooding several compartments, but no one was injured. All her aft compartments flooded, swiftly sending the boat to the muddy floor of the loch, 55 ft down. And there is the intellectual unevenness between the different portions, often sealed off like the compartments in a ship's hold, of each individual's brain and soul. These involved checking the compartments of his ship and inspecting personnel. The thing that has limited our ability to put women to sea has been the time and cost to modify the berthing compartments on existing ships. The collision allowed tons of water to flood several compartments in the forward section of the ship, including missile and gun magazines and a junior rates' mess. The impact tore a hole in her hull, flooding several compartments, but she was able to free herself. Armor bulkheads separate the crew compartment from the fuel tanks. The fuselage was of aluminum alloy semi-monocoque construction with passenger, crew, and cargo compartments that were pressurized for high altitude flight. Passengers will ride in the main compartment aft of the cargo spaces. Additionally an escape hatch in the forward and after compartments of the pressure hull were fitted, an innovation which saved many lives during the war. The other three cargo compartments are below deck. There were no stairs to the primary compartments of the ship. To their credit the builders have used bulkheads that are watertight between the hull and cabin soles to divide the boat into three separate compartments. The submarine has two separate pressure hulls with a diameter of 7.2 m each, five inner habitable hulls and 19 compartments. He turned back to the aft compartment, and then paused. Only when the doors of their compartment on the transport ship closed was she able to relax again. 1.3 An area in which something can be considered in isolation from other things. religion and politics should be kept in different compartments Example sentencesExamples You've got to talk about soccer in two different compartments: in the recreational community end, it actually has continued to grow, indeed prosper, in spite of the poor administration at the top end. She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will. Inside our head there are various departments, compartments, areas and domains that contain information. Synonyms domain, field, sphere, realm, area, department, sector, section, division, part category, pigeonhole, bracket, class, group, set 2Heraldry A grassy mound or other support depicted below a shield. verb kəmˈpɑːtm(ə)ntkəmˈpɑrtmənt [with object] Divide (something) into separate parts or sections. the buildings are to be compartmented by fire walls Example sentencesExamples I mentioned the plot was tightly compartmented. This is the reality today - people compartmenting risk management and thinking that managing risk incrementally, without the big picture context, is working. Their work is highly compartmented to a small group of people, probably living in a cave somewhere, and our country doesn't keep secrets very well. But the truth is that I just don't know how such information would be compartmented. You didn't even need a specially compartmented top-secret clearance to divine what was going on in the case. The result, though, was what have come to be called ‘organizational stovepipes’: a tightly compartmented flow of information from the target, through the collection process, through the analyst, to the consumer. Typical approaches include compartmenting information by functional area (Finance, Engineering, Executive), by business unit, or by customer. The precautions will include fire compartmenting, which is quite expensive and will involve a great deal of work because we will have to build firebreak walls to contain the house in compartments. Thus, the capacity of plants to counteract salinity stress may strongly depend on their ability to compartment ions in the vacuole and to minimize ionic changes in the cytosol. We could compartment it more and look at the costs and consequences of that. Synonyms divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember Derivatives compartmentation noun kəmpɑːtmɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n It's a direct violation of basic tradecraft and the principle of compartmentation. Example sentencesExamples Common fire compartmentation of all vertical shafts can minimize wall thickness provided the structural designer is satisfied with the core stability in the overall design of the building. This hair-raising essay is implicitly a powerful argument for alternative analysis, interagency intelligence sharing, and the breaking down of compartmentation. But he made no findings as to what additional costs would have been involved if EPS panels had been replaced in the areas adjacent to the flues and if compartmentation had been introduced. The intelligence traditions of hierarchy, compartmentation, and isolating consumers from producers are currently limiting the effectiveness of this technology. Origin Mid 16th century: from French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from compartire, from late Latin compartiri 'divide'. Definition of compartment in US English: compartment nounkəmˈpärtməntkəmˈpɑrtmənt 1A separate section of a structure or container in which certain items can be kept separate from others. there's some ice cream in the freezer compartment Example sentencesExamples It has a deluxe extendable handle that locks into place, as well as a separate shoe compartment and six large accessory pockets. Delivery vans are equipped with fridge and freezer compartments in order to ensure goods arrive in perfect condition. Veréd Cosmetiqué's bronzing powder is encased in a beautiful silver compact with a mirror and separate compartment for the brush applicator. It also features a separate shoe compartment to store and protect shoes up to size U.S. men's 13. Each of the three compartments inside contains a muddle of cheap plastic widgets. Use the local fishmonger instead of buying fish fingers from the freezer compartment. The lower section even contains a compartment offering an additional five litres of storage space. Lunchtime would see meals served in pressed metal trays with different compartments where the railway catering staff has placed the rice, curd, vegetables, and a curl of pickle with a pinch of salt. On that occasion, the group had braved freezing conditions crammed under a carriage in a compartment designed for luggage or freight. He found a large plastic container in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator containing what appeared to be frozen soup. These may be as simple as a moveable bin formed by wire mesh or a more substantial structure consisting of several compartments. A container with no set compartments or shelves can be modified and improved. There should be compartments and pockets and pouches to hold stuff like your coins, keys and cell phone Similar to an airplane meal in presentation, the food is served in various compartments of a square container that can be used for everything from a takeout lunch to a well-balanced supper. Everyday tasks such as going to the supermarket are tough when you can't reach the shelves or peer into the freezer compartments. More smoke sensors will be installed and internal walls will be extended upwards into the roof void to create compartments to help to contain the spread of any future fire. I appreciated the small compartments as a business traveler. I only discovered our fridge had a freezer compartment 6 weeks ago. There's also a separate shoe compartment with locking zippers. Indeed, imagine a box divided by a partition into two compartments. Synonyms section, part, partition, bay, recess, chamber, cavity, niche, nook, hollow 1.1 A division of a railroad car marked by partitions. a first-class compartment Example sentencesExamples We reserved 6 reclining seats - 3 and 3 facing each other in a closed compartment. The teak-bodied carriage has two first-class compartments - one for smokers and the other for non-smokers - and two toilets. At workplaces, bus-stations and inside railway compartments, the blabber is scarcely about anything but cricket. I don't know why but it was not blacked out so you could see in the compartment. The sequence built around the delivery of a child in a railway compartment is movingly handled. As for ringing ahead to my parents waiting to pick me up, I ensure that I leave the carriage compartment when I ring them. As the railway compartment became a popular venue for fictional mayhem when crime fiction flowered from the later Victorian years almost all cases involved men attacking men. For the time being, home was a railway compartment with a very hard bunk, in a train which made many inexplicable stops. The next thing she knew, she was lying on the floor of the first-class compartment being worked on by two doctors. However, there are also trains with first class compartments and air conditioning, which are clean, comfortable, and cost about the same price as taking a plane for the same distance. He was, moreover, renowned for the speed with which he could dash off an article in a railway compartment, a cricket pavilion, or in whatever place he could snatch a few minutes. Since our compartment was at the downstairs rear of the last car on the train, we were last for dinner reservations call. On one of the tables in the first class compartments were two empty bottles of champagne. I forgot to mention that the PA system in our compartment doesn't work. Tickets cost 22 leva an adult for first class compartments. Chuckling, the gentleman opened the door leading from the reserved coach to the sleeping compartments beyond. That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left). In sleeping carriages as well as in trains with only one carriage, smoking compartments must be designated. The carriage which included the two compartments in question was uncoupled and side-tracked. Vronsky noticed the charming woman as he made his way to the first-class compartment that he shared with his mother. 1.2 A watertight section of a ship's hull. the aft cargo compartment Example sentencesExamples Additionally an escape hatch in the forward and after compartments of the pressure hull were fitted, an innovation which saved many lives during the war. There were no stairs to the primary compartments of the ship. The collision allowed tons of water to flood several compartments in the forward section of the ship, including missile and gun magazines and a junior rates' mess. Only when the doors of their compartment on the transport ship closed was she able to relax again. And there is the intellectual unevenness between the different portions, often sealed off like the compartments in a ship's hold, of each individual's brain and soul. The thing that has limited our ability to put women to sea has been the time and cost to modify the berthing compartments on existing ships. Armor bulkheads separate the crew compartment from the fuel tanks. The impact tore a hole in her hull, flooding several compartments, but she was able to free herself. He turned back to the aft compartment, and then paused. These involved checking the compartments of his ship and inspecting personnel. All her aft compartments flooded, swiftly sending the boat to the muddy floor of the loch, 55 ft down. The grounding tore a hole in her hull below the waterline, flooding several compartments, but no one was injured. The submarine has two separate pressure hulls with a diameter of 7.2 m each, five inner habitable hulls and 19 compartments. The fuselage was of aluminum alloy semi-monocoque construction with passenger, crew, and cargo compartments that were pressurized for high altitude flight. Personnel being trapped in refrigerated compartments on-board ships were also reported in 1999 and 2003. The ‘ship’ is equipped with a bridge, crew's cabins and engine and lower deck compartments to make the training as authentic as possible. To their credit the builders have used bulkheads that are watertight between the hull and cabin soles to divide the boat into three separate compartments. The other three cargo compartments are below deck. A hiss of steam emitted from the aft compartment and the mechanical whir indicated the descending of the rear ramp. Passengers will ride in the main compartment aft of the cargo spaces. 1.3 An area in which something can be considered in isolation from other things. religion and politics should be kept in different compartments Example sentencesExamples Inside our head there are various departments, compartments, areas and domains that contain information. You've got to talk about soccer in two different compartments: in the recreational community end, it actually has continued to grow, indeed prosper, in spite of the poor administration at the top end. She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will. Synonyms domain, field, sphere, realm, area, department, sector, section, division, part 2Heraldry A grassy mound or other support depicted below a shield. verbkəmˈpärtməntkəmˈpɑrtmənt [with object]usually be compartmented Divide (something) into separate parts or sections. the buildings are to be compartmented by fire walls Example sentencesExamples But the truth is that I just don't know how such information would be compartmented. The precautions will include fire compartmenting, which is quite expensive and will involve a great deal of work because we will have to build firebreak walls to contain the house in compartments. The result, though, was what have come to be called ‘organizational stovepipes’: a tightly compartmented flow of information from the target, through the collection process, through the analyst, to the consumer. This is the reality today - people compartmenting risk management and thinking that managing risk incrementally, without the big picture context, is working. We could compartment it more and look at the costs and consequences of that. Their work is highly compartmented to a small group of people, probably living in a cave somewhere, and our country doesn't keep secrets very well. Typical approaches include compartmenting information by functional area (Finance, Engineering, Executive), by business unit, or by customer. You didn't even need a specially compartmented top-secret clearance to divine what was going on in the case. Thus, the capacity of plants to counteract salinity stress may strongly depend on their ability to compartment ions in the vacuole and to minimize ionic changes in the cytosol. I mentioned the plot was tightly compartmented. Synonyms divide, divide up, subdivide, separate, split, split up, cut up, carve up, slice up, break up, dismember Origin Mid 16th century: from French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from compartire, from late Latin compartiri ‘divide’.
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