compartment
Other forms: compartments
A compartment is a space within another space, like the glove compartment in a car.
Compartments are spaces, but they're not spaces that stand on their own. Rather, compartments are part of other spaces: they're subdivisions. The trunk is a compartment of a car. A pocket is a compartment of a suitcase. Closets are like compartments of rooms. One of the most common compartments is a car's glove compartment, where people throw all kinds of things. Anything that is divided into smaller spaces has compartments. The ventricles are like compartments of your heart.
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a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed areatypes:baya compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purposebaya compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospitalboxseparate partitioned area in a public place for a few peoplecaba compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sitscabinthe enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carriedcabinsmall room on a ship or boat where people sleepcabinet, locker, storage lockera storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lockcar, gondolathe compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plantcockpitcompartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraftcouchettea compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleepingdrawing rooma private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toiletglove compartmentcompartment on the dashboard of a carautomobile trunk, luggage compartment, trunkcompartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or toolsmoduledetachable compartment of a spacecraftroomettea small private compartment for one on a sleeping carstalla compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fedwellan enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumpsbilge well(nautical) a well where seepage drains to be pumped awaybootBritish term for the luggage compartment in a carcommand modulea space module in which astronauts can live and control the spacecraft and communicate with earthconning toweran armored pilothouse on a warshipjury boxan enclosure within a courtroom for the jurypress boxbox reserved for reporters (as at a sports event)pressure cabincabin consisting of the pressurized section of an aircraft or spacecraftpump wellan enclosure in the middle of a ship's hold that protects the ship's pumpsskyboxan elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadiumstaterooma guest cabintype of:rooman area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
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a space into which an area is subdividedtypes:cellany small compartmentPO Box, POB, Post-Office box, call box, letter boxa numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called fortype of:spacean empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
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This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that turns verbs into nouns.