compartmentn.

/kəmˈpɑːtmənt/

Forms: Also 1500s–1700s compartiment, 1500s compertiment, 1500s–1600s compartement; see also copartiment n.

Etymology: < French compartiment, in Italian -mento, late Latin -mentum, < compartīrī to divide. The French form was long retained in artistic senses.

I. A division separated by partitions, a part partitioned off.

a. Architecture and Art. A division or separate part of a design; ‘an ornamental subdivisional part, for ornament, of a larger division’ (Gwilt); e.g. a sunk panel in a ceiling or soffit.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistically conceived design > part of

compartment1564

copartiment1590

contour1662

register1937

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 9 The piller was eight foote square,..with compartementes of cunnyng Masonrie, curiously couered with fine golde.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Compartimento, a compartment, a partition.

1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 223 [A] toombe..pittifully defaced..the compartiment and other buildings torne downe.

1715 T. Bennet Ess. 39 Articles 5 The title of this copy is inclos'd with the same compartiment which that copy has.

1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Compartment..in Architecture, is a particular Square (for an Inscription or some other Device) marked out in some ornamental Part of a Building.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Compartiment of tiles, an arrangement of white and red tiles varnished for the decoration of the covering of a roof.

1852 H. Cotton Edit. Bible (ed. 2) 274 The title, within a wood-cut compartment.

1852 H. Cotton Edit. Bible (ed. 2) 278 Title, within an architectural compartment.

1873 S. Horner & J. Horner Walks in Florence (1884) I. xvi. 249 The ceiling was divided into thirty-nine compartments.

†b. ‘Fine bindings of books are said to be in compartiment’ (Bailey s.v.). Obsolete.[Cf. Littré: Dorures à petits fers qui se mettent sur le plat ou sur le dos des livres.]

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1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S6 About the Cover of this Book there went A curious-comely clean Compartlement [sic].

†2. Horticulture. (See quots.) Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun]

compartment1610

verge1728

copartiment1814

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 56 The Tricking of Plots consists in Complements and Compartiments.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 71 in Sylva Clip Box, &c. in Parterres, Knots, and Compartiments.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 28 A Wood-work, planted in a very handsome Compartiment.

1731–7 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Compartiments are Beds, Plats, Borders, and Walks, laid out according to the Form of the Ground.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv^*. 225 In one copartment of this old-fashioned garden.

3. Heraldry. A division of a shield, etc.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > division of shield

partition1486

compartment1590

copartiment1590

stance1632

1590 R. Wilson Three Lords & Ladies Lond. i, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VI. 461 Their shields impress'd with gilt copartiments.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. vi. 271 The Motto, or Word..set in some Scrole or Compartment, placed vsually at the foot of the Escocheon.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxi, in Poems (1878) IV. 166 Noe Fret of Names Worne as a Border, or Compartiment, To glimer ore the Tablet.1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Compartiments, (in Heraldry) are partitions, as also quarterings of the escutcheon, according to the number of coats that are to be in it, or the several divisions made in it.

†4. A division of troops. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun]

companyc1325

compartment1590

brigade1637

detachment1678

contingent1728

unit1861

crowd1901

crush1904

mahalla1906

outfit1909

mob1916

serial1941

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 7 The bands being in great compertiments and divisions, may be with a great deale more celeritie incorporated with the other great compertiments of the like weapons of other great bands.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 9 Everie sort of weapon being reduced into bands by themselves, without compertiments of divers sorts of weapons in anie one band.

5. A space or chamber partitioned off.

a. in the body of an animal or plant.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > compartment or cavity

loculus1694

compartment1772

alveolus1800

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity

pita1275

holec1300

cella1398

den1398

follicle?a1425

purse?a1425

pocketa1450

fossac1475

cystis1543

trench1565

conceptory1576

vesike1577

vesicle1578

vault1594

socket1601

bladderet1615

cistern1615

cavern1626

ventricle1641

bladder1661

antrum1684

conceptaculum1691

capsule1693

cellule1694

loculus1694

sinus1704

vesicula1705

vesica1706

fosse1710

pouch1712

cyst1721

air chamber1725

fossula1733

alveole1739

sac1741

sacculus1749

locule1751

compartment1772

air cell1774

fossule1803

umbilicus1811

conceptacle1819

cœlia1820

utricle1822

air sac1835

saccule1836

ampulla1845

vacuole1853

scrobicule1880

faveolus1882

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > compartment or chamber > in the body of an animal or plant

compartment1772

1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. iv. viii. 175 Each seed..inclosed in one of the compartments, formed by the transverse membranes of the pod.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 573/1 The stomach..is divided into distinct compartments.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 644/1 The left compartment of the ventricle.

b. One of the divisions of a railway-carriage.Now one of the most common of the applications.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > compartment

train compartment1852

compartment1862

1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ xi. 481 In the engaged compartment of a first-class carriage.

1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. 9 She was evidently travelling alone..and she must have been in a compartment by herself.

c. In other applications: e.g. one of the watertight divisions of a large ship.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > compartment or chamber

chambera1398

cellulea1400

partition1465

traversea1500

cell1577

concameration1638

apartment1679

thecaa1680

partitionment1851

compartment1866

cube1937

cubicle1938

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > watertight compartment

watertight compartment1800

compartment1866

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood ix, in Sunday Mag. Jan. 219/1 He pushed a compartment of books.

1881 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 5/4 Suddenly liberated here, it..gives rise to an intense cold, which it carries with it into the freezing compartments.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 2 Water-tight bulkheads.—The name applied to the sides of the numerous compartments into which it is customary to divide iron vessels.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Aug. 8/2 She had watertight compartments.

d. Forestry. (See quots.)

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > unit of

limit1836

compartment1895

1895 W. Schlich Man. Forestry iii. iv. 293 Each working circle..must be further divided. The unit of that division is the compartment.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 7 Compartment, the unit of area treated in the working plan. The size and the shape of compartments are determined mainly by topographic features.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 23 Stand method, that method of conservative lumbering in which reproduction is secured from self-sown seed by means of successive cuttings... Syn.: compartment system.

1950 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 44 59 It is..highly desirable to divide the woods into conveniently sized and permanently demarcated compartments... Each compartment may usefully range from about 10 acres up to not more than 25 acres in extent.

a. A separate division or section of anything, whether plane or solid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided

dealinga1300

divisionc1374

partc1392

spacec1392

long divisionc1400

severingc1400

skyvaldc1400

foddinga1425

panelc1450

partition1561

roomstead1600

canton1601

separation1604

share1643

scissurea1667

cutting1726

departmenta1735

segment1762

compartment1793

distribution1829

segregation1859

dept.1869

section1875

tmema1891

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §328 The rails were made in eight compartments, and screwed together.

1854 C. Darwin Monogr. Cirripedia 33 A barnacle or acorn-shell is an irregular cone, formed generally of six compartments.

1867 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 71 They divide the spectrum into compartments.

1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 150 The sides of the shell are seen to be composed of from 4 to 8 separate pieces, valves, or, as they are technically called, compartments.

b. Used (esp. attributive) of methods of dealing with business in sections, as of the parliamentary rule to facilitate the passing of a bill by dealing with it in separate portions and allotting a limit of time for the discussion and closure of each.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > business affairs > [noun] > a business transaction > a separate portion of business

compartment1893

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > specific method of dealing with business

iron hand1876

compartment1893

1893 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 2/2 At the close of each compartment he [sc. the Chairman] simply becomes the instrument of the House in recording its decision... Closure by compartment must be supplemented with closure by clause.

1896 Daily News 25 Feb. 5/6 The necessity of having the compartment principle engrafted on the rule.

1946 Erskine May's Law of Parl. (ed. 14) 449 Special orders of the House, known officially as ‘Allocation of Time’ orders, and colloquially as ‘Guillotine’ or ‘Closure by compartment’ orders.

II. Arrangement or disposition.

†7.

a. The proper disposition and distribution of the parts of any design: = compartition n. 2. Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > mode of arrangement > of parts or particles

geometry1658

schematism1660

compartment1704

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Compartiment [with Painters], is a regular orderly disposition of agreeable Figures all round any Picture, Map, Draught, etc. for its better Ornament.

c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture III. xi. 24 Of all the Bridges..the most worthy of consideration (as well for the strength as the compartment of it).

c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture II. xiii. 20 The Compartment of the building, or the distribution of its parts.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Compartiment, (in Joinery, &c.) a symmetrical disposition of figures to adorn pannels, &c.

b. figurative.

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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 5 Tolerations in things tolerable..are..the faire Compartiments of Christian fraternity.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 5.)

compartment car n.

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1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Oct. 335/1 They live in compartment cars, which are more or less like the European wagonlit.

compartment train n.

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1907 Daily Chron. 6 Sept. 7/6 The inconvenience on the car trains is certainly not so great as on the compartment trains.

compartment vehicle n.

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1908 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 10/1 Single-decked compartment vehicles.

b. (In sense 5c.)

compartment-built adj.

ΚΠ

1892 Daily News 4 July 7/3 She is compartment built,..and this has saved her from an immediate catastrophe.

C2.

compartment boat n. a boat built with watertight compartments.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > built with watertight compartments

compartment boat1894

1894 Daily News 1 Sept. 6/7 The compartment boats sinking in Goole Docks.

Categories »

compartment-bulkhead n. one of the partitions which divide the hold of a ship into watertight compartments.

compartment ceiling n. one divided into panels (Gwilt).

compartment tiles n. an arrangement of varnished red and white tiles on a roof (Gwilt): see 1730 at sense 1a.

Draft additions June 2007

compartment syndrome n. Medicine any of various conditions resulting from increased pressure within a confined body space (usually caused by oedema, haemorrhage, or increased muscle mass), leading to pain, impairment of blood and nerve supply, and ultimately necrosis of tissue.The anterior leg, anterior thigh, and forearm are typical sites for the condition.

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1958 M. G. Kunkel & R. B. Lynn in Canad. Jrnl. Surg. 1 212 (title) The anterior tibial compartment syndrome.

1998 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Feb. o1/2 Last fall she faced the prospect of missing these Games as doctors told her they'd have to slit both her legs open along the tibia to relieve pressure in her calf because of compartment syndrome pain.

2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck i. 32 What killed Jerry was probably hypothermia along with ‘compartment syndrome’, which used to be called ‘tourniquet shock’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	compartment
释义	compartmentn. /kəmˈpɑːtmənt/ Forms: Also 1500s–1700s compartiment, 1500s compertiment, 1500s–1600s compartement; see also copartiment n. Etymology: < French compartiment, in Italian -mento, late Latin -mentum, < compartīrī to divide. The French form was long retained in artistic senses. I. A division separated by partitions, a part partitioned off. 1. a. Architecture and Art. A division or separate part of a design; ‘an ornamental subdivisional part, for ornament, of a larger division’ (Gwilt); e.g. a sunk panel in a ceiling or soffit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistically conceived design > part of compartment1564 copartiment1590 contour1662 register1937 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 9 The piller was eight foote square,..with compartementes of cunnyng Masonrie, curiously couered with fine golde. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Compartimento, a compartment, a partition. 1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 223 [A] toombe..pittifully defaced..the compartiment and other buildings torne downe. 1715 T. Bennet Ess. 39 Articles 5 The title of this copy is inclos'd with the same compartiment which that copy has. 1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Compartment..in Architecture, is a particular Square (for an Inscription or some other Device) marked out in some ornamental Part of a Building. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Compartiment of tiles, an arrangement of white and red tiles varnished for the decoration of the covering of a roof. 1852 H. Cotton Edit. Bible (ed. 2) 274 The title, within a wood-cut compartment. 1852 H. Cotton Edit. Bible (ed. 2) 278 Title, within an architectural compartment. 1873 S. Horner & J. Horner Walks in Florence (1884) I. xvi. 249 The ceiling was divided into thirty-nine compartments. †b. ‘Fine bindings of books are said to be in compartiment’ (Bailey s.v.). Obsolete.[Cf. Littré: Dorures à petits fers qui se mettent sur le plat ou sur le dos des livres.] ΚΠ 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S6 About the Cover of this Book there went A curious-comely clean Compartlement [sic]. †2. Horticulture. (See quots.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] compartment1610 verge1728 copartiment1814 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 56 The Tricking of Plots consists in Complements and Compartiments. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 71 in Sylva Clip Box, &c. in Parterres, Knots, and Compartiments. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 28 A Wood-work, planted in a very handsome Compartiment. 1731–7 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Compartiments are Beds, Plats, Borders, and Walks, laid out according to the Form of the Ground. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv^. 225 In one copartment of this old-fashioned garden. View more context for this quotation 3. Heraldry. A division of a shield, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > escutcheon or shield > [noun] > division of shield partition1486 compartment1590 copartiment1590 stance1632 1590 R. Wilson Three Lords & Ladies Lond.* i, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VI. 461 Their shields impress'd with gilt copartiments. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. vi. 271 The Motto, or Word..set in some Scrole or Compartment, placed vsually at the foot of the Escocheon.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cclxi, in Poems (1878) IV. 166 Noe Fret of Names Worne as a Border, or Compartiment, To glimer ore the Tablet.1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Compartiments, (in Heraldry) are partitions, as also quarterings of the escutcheon, according to the number of coats that are to be in it, or the several divisions made in it. †4. A division of troops. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] companyc1325 compartment1590 brigade1637 detachment1678 contingent1728 unit1861 crowd1901 crush1904 mahalla1906 outfit1909 mob1916 serial1941 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 7 The bands being in great compertiments and divisions, may be with a great deale more celeritie incorporated with the other great compertiments of the like weapons of other great bands. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 9 Everie sort of weapon being reduced into bands by themselves, without compertiments of divers sorts of weapons in anie one band. 5. A space or chamber partitioned off. a. in the body of an animal or plant. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > compartment or cavity loculus1694 compartment1772 alveolus1800 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity pita1275 holec1300 cella1398 den1398 follicle?a1425 purse?a1425 pocketa1450 fossac1475 cystis1543 trench1565 conceptory1576 vesike1577 vesicle1578 vault1594 socket1601 bladderet1615 cistern1615 cavern1626 ventricle1641 bladder1661 antrum1684 conceptaculum1691 capsule1693 cellule1694 loculus1694 sinus1704 vesicula1705 vesica1706 fosse1710 pouch1712 cyst1721 air chamber1725 fossula1733 alveole1739 sac1741 sacculus1749 locule1751 compartment1772 air cell1774 fossule1803 umbilicus1811 conceptacle1819 cœlia1820 utricle1822 air sac1835 saccule1836 ampulla1845 vacuole1853 scrobicule1880 faveolus1882 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > compartment or chamber > in the body of an animal or plant compartment1772 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. iv. viii. 175 Each seed..inclosed in one of the compartments, formed by the transverse membranes of the pod. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 573/1 The stomach..is divided into distinct compartments. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 644/1 The left compartment of the ventricle. b. One of the divisions of a railway-carriage.Now one of the most common of the applications. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > compartment train compartment1852 compartment1862 1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ xi. 481 In the engaged compartment of a first-class carriage. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. 9 She was evidently travelling alone..and she must have been in a compartment by herself. c. In other applications: e.g. one of the watertight divisions of a large ship. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > compartment or chamber chambera1398 cellulea1400 partition1465 traversea1500 cell1577 concameration1638 apartment1679 thecaa1680 partitionment1851 compartment1866 cube1937 cubicle1938 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > watertight compartment watertight compartment1800 compartment1866 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood ix, in Sunday Mag. Jan. 219/1 He pushed a compartment of books. 1881 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 5/4 Suddenly liberated here, it..gives rise to an intense cold, which it carries with it into the freezing compartments. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 2 Water-tight bulkheads.—The name applied to the sides of the numerous compartments into which it is customary to divide iron vessels. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Aug. 8/2 She had watertight compartments. d. Forestry. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > unit of limit1836 compartment1895 1895 W. Schlich Man. Forestry iii. iv. 293 Each working circle..must be further divided. The unit of that division is the compartment. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 7 Compartment, the unit of area treated in the working plan. The size and the shape of compartments are determined mainly by topographic features. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 23 Stand method, that method of conservative lumbering in which reproduction is secured from self-sown seed by means of successive cuttings... Syn.: compartment system. 1950 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 44 59 It is..highly desirable to divide the woods into conveniently sized and permanently demarcated compartments... Each compartment may usefully range from about 10 acres up to not more than 25 acres in extent. 6. a. A separate division or section of anything, whether plane or solid. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided dealinga1300 divisionc1374 partc1392 spacec1392 long divisionc1400 severingc1400 skyvaldc1400 foddinga1425 panelc1450 partition1561 roomstead1600 canton1601 separation1604 share1643 scissurea1667 cutting1726 departmenta1735 segment1762 compartment1793 distribution1829 segregation1859 dept.1869 section1875 tmema1891 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §328 The rails were made in eight compartments, and screwed together. 1854 C. Darwin Monogr. Cirripedia 33 A barnacle or acorn-shell is an irregular cone, formed generally of six compartments. 1867 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 71 They divide the spectrum into compartments. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 150 The sides of the shell are seen to be composed of from 4 to 8 separate pieces, valves, or, as they are technically called, compartments. b. Used (esp. attributive) of methods of dealing with business in sections, as of the parliamentary rule to facilitate the passing of a bill by dealing with it in separate portions and allotting a limit of time for the discussion and closure of each. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > [noun] > a business transaction > a separate portion of business compartment1893 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > specific method of dealing with business iron hand1876 compartment1893 1893 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 2/2 At the close of each compartment he [sc. the Chairman] simply becomes the instrument of the House in recording its decision... Closure by compartment must be supplemented with closure by clause. 1896 Daily News 25 Feb. 5/6 The necessity of having the compartment principle engrafted on the rule. 1946 Erskine May's Law of Parl. (ed. 14) 449 Special orders of the House, known officially as ‘Allocation of Time’ orders, and colloquially as ‘Guillotine’ or ‘Closure by compartment’ orders. II. Arrangement or disposition. †7. a. The proper disposition and distribution of the parts of any design: = compartition n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > mode of arrangement > of parts or particles geometry1658 schematism1660 compartment1704 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Compartiment [with Painters], is a regular orderly disposition of agreeable Figures all round any Picture, Map, Draught, etc. for its better Ornament. c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture III. xi. 24 Of all the Bridges..the most worthy of consideration (as well for the strength as the compartment of it). c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture II. xiii. 20 The Compartment of the building, or the distribution of its parts. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Compartiment, (in Joinery, &c.) a symmetrical disposition of figures to adorn pannels, &c. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 5 Tolerations in things tolerable..are..the faire Compartiments of Christian fraternity. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 5.) compartment car n. ΚΠ 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Oct. 335/1 They live in compartment cars, which are more or less like the European wagonlit. compartment train n. ΚΠ 1907 Daily Chron. 6 Sept. 7/6 The inconvenience on the car trains is certainly not so great as on the compartment trains. compartment vehicle n. ΚΠ 1908 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 10/1 Single-decked compartment vehicles. b. (In sense 5c.) compartment-built adj. ΚΠ 1892 Daily News 4 July 7/3 She is compartment built,..and this has saved her from an immediate catastrophe. C2. compartment boat n. a boat built with watertight compartments. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [noun] > built with watertight compartments compartment boat1894 1894 Daily News 1 Sept. 6/7 The compartment boats sinking in Goole Docks. Categories » compartment-bulkhead n. one of the partitions which divide the hold of a ship into watertight compartments. compartment ceiling n. one divided into panels (Gwilt). compartment tiles n. an arrangement of varnished red and white tiles on a roof (Gwilt): see 1730 at sense 1a. Draft additions June 2007 compartment syndrome n. Medicine any of various conditions resulting from increased pressure within a confined body space (usually caused by oedema, haemorrhage, or increased muscle mass), leading to pain, impairment of blood and nerve supply, and ultimately necrosis of tissue.The anterior leg, anterior thigh, and forearm are typical sites for the condition. ΚΠ 1958 M. G. Kunkel & R. B. Lynn in Canad. Jrnl. Surg. 1 212 (title) The anterior tibial compartment syndrome. 1998 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Feb. o1/2 Last fall she faced the prospect of missing these Games as doctors told her they'd have to slit both her legs open along the tibia to relieve pressure in her calf because of compartment syndrome pain. 2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck i. 32 What killed Jerry was probably hypothermia along with ‘compartment syndrome’, which used to be called ‘tourniquet shock’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). compartmentv. Etymology: < compartment n. transitive. To divide or put into compartments (literal and figurative). Chiefly in past participle. Cf. compartmented adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into sections or compartments space1557 comparta1785 section1819 sectionize1828 partition1849 sectionalize1854 to pound off1873 pigeonhole1879 compartment1930 compartmentalize1945 cellularize1948 1930 G. Manning-Sanders Burnt Man i. 11 All along the length of one wall, neatly stacked and compartmented, thousands of rolls of wallpaper. 1950 E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 54 Language..should not..be compartmented, for such compartments fail to correspond with the facts. 1964 Punch 16 Dec. 911/2 Affairs can no longer be compartmented. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1564v.1930
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compartmentv.