| 单词 | partition |
| 释义 | partition (once / 843 pages) 1nv 2n A partition is something that divides space. When your younger brother decides to stop bathing, setting up a partition between his side of the room and yours seems like a good idea...until you realize your partition is not air-tight. Partition can be used as a noun or as a verb. As a noun, it usually refers to a physical barrier between spaces. As a verb, to partition is to separate into sections — like to partition an office space into different work spaces. One can also partition something that does not involve physical space — like when you partition school life from home life, you are splitting your life into two parts that don’t intersect. WORD FAMILYpartition: partitioned, partitioning, partitionist, partitions+/partitioned: unpartitioned/partitionist: partitionists USAGE EXAMPLESThe 18-year-old was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car with no partition. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Some 600,000 Israelis now live in the two areas, complicating any partition of the land between Israel and a future Palestine. Time(Dec 25, 2016) Partition Resolution, which called for Jerusalem to be a “corpus separatum under a special international regime . . . administered by the United Nations.” Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1n the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart Syn|Hypo|Hyper division, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation subdivision the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided septationthe division or partitioning of a cavity into parts by a septum zoningdividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc separation the act of dividing or disconnecting 2n a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper divider Wailing Wall a wall in Jerusalem; sacred to Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation; its stones are believed to have formed part of the Temple of Solomon Hadrian's Wallan ancient Roman wall built by Hadrian in the 2nd century; marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain brattice a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine bulkheada partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments screenpartition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space wallan architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure altarpiece, reredosa painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table attic(architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof bearing wallany wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building cavity walla wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them chimney breastwalls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base firewalla fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle gable, gable end, gable wallthe vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof parapeta low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony proscenium, proscenium wallthe wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater purdaha screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers rood screena screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel sidewalla wall that forms the side of a structure wainscoting, wainscottinga wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts 3n (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism Hypo|Hyper septum (anatomy) a dividing partition between two tissues or cavities nasal septuma partition of bone and cartilage between the nasal cavities body part any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity 4v divide into parts, pieces, or sections The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British Syn|Hypo|Hyper partition off pound, pound off partition off into compartments divide, part, separate come apart 5v separate or apportion into sections 2partition a room off Syn|Hypo|Hyper zone screen off, separate off partition by means of a divider, such as a screen divide, separate make a division or separation n (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit Hyper computer memory unit a unit for measuring computer memory |
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