Word Meanings - COMPARTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or

Additional info about word: COMPARTMENT

One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPARTMENT)

• Partition
• Barrier
• division
• enclosure
• compartment
• interspace
• separation
• distribution
• allotment
• screen

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPARTMENT)

• Open
• expose
• surrender
• betray
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute

Related words: (words related to COMPARTMENT)

• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• ENCLOSURE
  Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• COMPARTMENT
  One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• BARRIER
  A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy. 2. A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach. 3. pl.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• EXAGGERATED
  Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.
• EXAGGERATE
  up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring 1. To heap up; to accumulate. "Earth exaggerated upon them ." Sir M. Hale. 2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to
• DISTRIBUTION
  A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena
• AGGRAVATE
  1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. "To aggravate thy store." Shak. 2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope.
• BETRAYMENT
  Betrayal. Udall.
• SCREEN
  A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like. 3. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a
• ALLOTMENT
  The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. (more info) 1. The act of allotting; assignment.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• QUADRIPARTITION
  A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
• BIPARTITION
  The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.
• BESCREEN
  To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.
• MISALLOTMENT
  A wrong allotment.
• OVEREXPOSE
  To expose excessively; specif. ,