Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divide into parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A part existing along with others; an element; a fellow-member; a part.
- To divide; mark out into parts or subdivisions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To divide and share with others.
- verb To divide into smaller parts; to divide into
compartments . - verb To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lay out in parts according to a plan
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Inspiration 2009
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As she's saying the last sentence, there's a distinct force in the compart -
Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994
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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.
Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993
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With keenest anticipation, the current ruler of the compart intended to correct this oversight.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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All in the compart were aware that the wizards at Mhored Kara conscripted paranormally gifted children for training.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Only dust remained of the compart that had hated and plotted vengeance through the centuries since Cor-inne Dane's luckless wreck.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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That humanity might share the fate of Shadow-fane's compart as a result left guilt that could never be assuaged.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Scait already knew that no force possessed by the compart was capable of destroying it; memories-of-ancestors ascertained this fact beyond doubt.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Farree swung off the bunk, reached in to one of the compart - ments below.
Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986
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Screens, some woven of feathers and others of still flowering vines, cut the space about the walls into various alcoves and compart - ments.
Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965
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