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COMPARTMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("compartment" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compartment"):
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)
stall (a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed)
roomette (a small private compartment for one on a sleeping car)
pilothouse; wheelhouse (an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated)
module (detachable compartment of a spacecraft)
automobile trunk; boot; luggage compartment; trunk (compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools)
glove compartment (compartment on the dashboard of a car)
drawing room (a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet)
couchette (a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping)
cockpit (compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft)
car; gondola (the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant)
car; elevator car (where passengers ride up and down)
cable car; car (a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway)
cabinet; locker; storage locker (a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock)
cabin (small room on a ship or boat where people sleep)
cabin (the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried)
cab (a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits)
box; loge (private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance)
box (separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people)
bay (a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital)
bay (a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose)
Derivation:
compartmental (divided up into compartments or categories)
compartmentalise; compartmentalize (separate into isolated compartments or categories)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A space into which an area is subdivided
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("compartment" is a kind of...):
space (an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compartment"):
cell (any small compartment)
cubbyhole; pigeonhole (a small compartment)
call box; letter box; PO Box; POB; Post-Office box (a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for)
Derivation:
compartmentalise; compartmentalize (separate into isolated compartments or categories)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb compartment
Context examples:
The process whereby cellular proteins are positioned and sequestered in the correct cellular compartment for proper function.
(Intracellular Protein Transport, NCI Thesaurus)
The third compartment of the forestomach of ruminants with many long folds of mucosa (resembling a book).
(Omasum, NCI Thesaurus)
A graphical analysis technique based on a two compartment model that uses linear regression to identify and analyze pharmacokinetics problems involving irreversible uptake in one compartment.
(Patlak Plot, NCI Thesaurus)
We will suppose that he was travelling back to Woolwich when he was killed and thrown out of the compartment.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
NOD1 and NOD2, two prototypic NLRs, sense the cytosolic presence of the bacterial peptidoglycan fragments that escaped from endosomal compartments, driving the activation of NF-kappa-B and MAPK, cytokine production and apoptosis.
(NOD-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A lipid bilayer enclosing a Golgi compartment.
(Membrane of the Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)
Any subcellular or molecular event, process, or condition involved in translocation of a biological macromolecule from one site or compartment to another, entirely within a cell.
(Intracellular Transport, NCI Thesaurus)
A lipid bilayer enclosing an endosomal compartment.
(Membrane of the Endosome, NCI Thesaurus)
Device problems traced back to how the device was shipped (some examples may include the temperature of the shipping compartment or the method of transportation).
(Device Shipping Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment protein 3 (383 aa, ~43 kDa) is encoded by the human ERGIC3 gene.
(Endoplasmic Reticulum-Golgi Intermediate Compartment Protein 3, NCI Thesaurus)
