compartment

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Directly across this compartment was another central door with something printed in German above it.

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  1. noun One of the parts or spaces into which an area is subdivided.
  2. noun A separate room, section, or chamber: a storage compartment.
  3. transitive verb To compartmentalize: "The information has not been compartmented” (John H. Cushman, Jr.)

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  • In those days no use was made of the smoking-compartment, as there was no ventilation, and it was turned over to young Edison, who not only kept papers there and his stock of goods as a "candy butcher," but soon had it equipped with an extraordinary variety of apparatus. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The female travellers in the compartment were a Parisian, still young, and her bright and charming fifteen-year-old daughter, whose beauty was not unlike that of Mlle. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • As soon as the compartment was open, a pseudopod of the stuff formed and reached up toward Olivine's face. —  Analog February, 1971
  • I will open the forward compartment, and you will file in there and I will lock you in. —  057 - The Sea Angel
  • They were returned to the compartment, and the door closed. —  COPYRIGHT 1940, 1947, 1948
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  1. Formerly compartement, compartiment, from French compartiment = Spanish compartimento, compartimiento = Portuguese Italian compartimento, from Middle Latin *compartimentum, from compartire, divide, partition: see compart
 

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