Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To divide into parts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To divide; mark out into parts or subdivisions.
- n. A part existing along with others; an element; a fellow-member; a part.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete To divide and share with others.
- v. To divide into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
- v. To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions.
WordNet 3.0
- v. lay out in parts according to a plan
Etymologies
- Obsolete French compartir, from Italian compartire, from Late Latin compartīrī, to share : Latin com-, com- + Latin partīrī, to divide (from pars, part-, a part; see perə-2 in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Although it was three or four metres away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compart ments, and that there was some kind of creature in each.”
“As she's saying the last sentence, there's a distinct force in the compart -”
“Slavsky liked the compart -- ment door to be open when we weren't sleeping or changing our clothes, and I didn't argue because I wasn't there for most of the time.”
“With keenest anticipation, the current ruler of the compart intended to correct this oversight.”
“All in the compart were aware that the wizards at Mhored Kara conscripted paranormally gifted children for training.”
“That humanity might share the fate of Shadow-fane's compart as a result left guilt that could never be assuaged.”
“Scait already knew that no force possessed by the compart was capable of destroying it; memories-of-ancestors ascertained this fact beyond doubt.”
“Only dust remained of the compart that had hated and plotted vengeance through the centuries since Cor-inne Dane's luckless wreck.”
“Farree swung off the bunk, reached in to one of the compart - ments below.”
“Screens, some woven of feathers and others of still flowering vines, cut the space about the walls into various alcoves and compart - ments.”
Lists
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Obsolete or seldom used Verbs (someti...
They were (are) better as verbs
agend, absume, incarn, secern, suade, niggle, resplend, perfuse, circumincess, dehisce, inhere, clepe and 26 more...
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participation
parade, pare, parlay, parry, parure, apparatus, apparel, comprador, disparate, emperor, imperative, imperator and 86 more...
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To Divide or Split Without Cutting
Verbs meaning divide or split without cutting
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