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How to pronounce compartment in English?

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Type Words
Type of room
Has types bay, boot, box, cab, cabin, cabinet, automobile trunk, car, cable car, luggage compartment, module, pilothouse, roomette, stall, storage locker, trunk, well, wheelhouse, cockpit, couchette, drawing room, elevator car, glove compartment, gondola, locker, loge
Derivation compartmental, compartmentalise, compartmentalize
Type Words
Type of space
Has types po box, pob, cubbyhole, post-office box, call box, pigeonhole, cell, letter box
Derivation compartmentalise, compartmentalize

Examples of compartment

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On the high roof model there is even an additional overhead storage compartment.
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When I boarded the plane I put my carry-on bag in the last overhead compartment.
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I rifled through the tack compartment of the trailer, digging to find the water.
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Buyers of Porsche cars get a brochure about the school in the glove compartment.
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Several witnesses said a nose compartment door was open as the plane lifted off.
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Cars have ventilation systems to bring fresh air into the passenger compartment.
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Mejia himself was captured the next month in a false compartment in a truck cab.
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Provide three stoppers for three-compartment sink for wash, rinse, and sanitize.
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It's hauling fresh batteries and a new Russian compartment to the space station.
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More examples
  • A space into which an area is subdivided
  • A partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
  • (compartmented) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units; "a compartmented box"; "the protected and compartmented society of Beacon Hill"- John Mason Brown
  • In chemistry, a compartment is a part of a protein that serves a specific function.
  • Compartments can be simply defined as separate, different, adjacent cell populations, which upon juxtaposition, create a lineage boundary. This boundary prevents cell movement from cells from different lineages across this barrier, restricting them to their compartment. ...
  • In heraldry, a compartment is a design placed under the shield, usually rocks, a grassy mount, or some sort of other landscape upon which the supporters are depicted as standing. ...
  • (Compartment(s) ): The area within the body that a drug tends to dwell in after it has been absorbed.
  • (Compartments) The plates forming the wall of the shell.
  • (Compartments) main storage spaces. In larger packs, they may have their own openings and be separated by zippered panels.