English > compartment: 2 senses > noun 2, artifact| Meaning | A partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger / larger enclosed area. |
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| Narrower | bay | A compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose |
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| bay | A compartment on a ship between decks |
| box | separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people |
| box, loge | private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance |
| cab | A compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits |
| cabin | The enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried |
| cabin | small room on a ship or boat where people sleep |
| cabinet, locker, storage locker | A storage compartment for clothes and valuables |
| cable car, car | A conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway |
| car, elevator car | Where passengers ride up and down |
| car, gondola | The compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant |
| cockpit | compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft |
| couchette | A compartment on a European passenger train |
| drawing room | A private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet |
| glove compartment | compartment on the dashboard of a car |
| luggage compartment, automobile trunk, trunk, boot | British term for the luggage compartment in a car |
| module | detachable compartment of a spacecraft |
| pilothouse, wheelhouse | An enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated |
| roomette | A small private compartment for one on a sleeping car |
| stall | A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed |
| well | An 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 pumps |
| Broader | room | An area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling |
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| Spanish | compartimento, compartimiento |
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| Catalan | compartiment |
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| Adjectives | compartmental | divided up into compartments or categories / categories |
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| Verbs | compartmentalize, compartmentalise | separate into isolated compartments or categories / categories |
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