| 单词 | compartment |
| 释义 | compartment (once / 864 pages) n A compartment is a space within another space, like the glove compartment in a car. Compartments are spaces, but they're not spaces that stand on their own. Rather, compartments are part of other spaces: they're subdivisions. The trunk is a compartment of a car. A pocket is a compartment of a suitcase. Closets are like compartments of rooms. One of the most common compartments is a car's glove compartment, where people throw all kinds of things. Anything that is divided into smaller spaces has compartments. The ventricles are like compartments of your heart. WORD FAMILYcompartment: compartmental, compartmentalise, compartmentalize, compartments+/compartmental: compartmentally/compartmentalise: compartmentalisation, compartmentalised/compartmentalize: compartmentalization, compartmentalized, compartmentalizes, compartmentalizing USAGE EXAMPLESOfficials said the explosive device was planted in the plane’s luggage compartment. Time(Dec 26, 2016) Compartments need to be further consolidated, and the system of markings and handling caveats should be significantly simplified. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) Sporadically but memorably, in chilling capers of tunnels and balloons and secret compartments, Easterners found ways across. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) 1n a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area Hypo|Hyper bay a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose baya compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital boxseparate partitioned area in a public place for a few people box, logeprivate area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance caba compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits cabinthe enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried cabinsmall room on a ship or boat where people sleep cabinet, locker, storage lockera storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock cable car, cara conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway car, elevator carwhere passengers ride up and down car, gondolathe compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant cockpitcompartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft couchettea compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping drawing rooma private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet glove compartmentcompartment on the dashboard of a car automobile trunk, luggage compartment, trunkcompartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools moduledetachable compartment of a spacecraft pilothouse, wheelhousean enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated roomettea small private compartment for one on a sleeping car stalla compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed wellan enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps bilge well(nautical) a well where seepage drains to be pumped away bootBritish term for the luggage compartment in a car command modulea space module in which astronauts can live and control the spacecraft and communicate with earth conning toweran armored pilothouse on a warship glory hole, lazarettoa small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship jury boxan enclosure within a courtroom for the jury press boxbox reserved for reporters (as at a sports event) pressure cabincabin consisting of the pressurized section of an aircraft or spacecraft pump wellan enclosure in the middle of a ship's hold that protects the ship's pumps skyboxan elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium staterooma guest cabin witness box, witness standa box enclosure for a witness when testifying room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling 2n a space into which an area is subdivided Hypo|Hyper cell any small compartment cubbyhole, pigeonholea small compartment PO Box, POB, Post-Office box, call box, letter boxa numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for space an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things) |
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