compartment

plural compartments

1. A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.

   Two men were seated in a well-lit compartment of a third-class railway carriage.

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   This is a second-class ticket. And you're sitting in the first class!” “I'd no idea,” Haldiram said. “I didn't know what compartment was this.” And looking around, he asked, “Where does it say First Class? I still can't see it.

   2014 April 28, Dr. Ulhas R. Gunjal, Home, Again!: A Novel of Identity, Self-Discovery, and Tragedy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 313

   Because of the heavy traffic, the 1960-61 Christmas guide to trains between King's Cross and the north stated: "To make travel conditions as comfortable as possible, passengers are requested to raise arm rests to enable four people to be seated on each side of those compartments which are fitted with arm rests."

   2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, pages 29-30

2. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
3. biochemistryThe part of a protein that serves a specific function.
4. governmentA mound (often of grass), shelf (of e.g. wall) or other thing beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
5. anatomyA region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

present singular third person compartments · participle present compartmenting · participle past compartmented · past compartmented

1. transitiveTo arrange in separate compartments.