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com|part|ment — «kuhm PAHRT muhnt», noun, verb. –n. 1. a separate division set off in any enclosed space by walls or partitions. A ship s hold is often built in watertight compartments so that a leak will fill up only one compartment and not the whole ship.… … Useful english dictionary
com|part|men|tal|i|za|tion — «KOM pahrt MEHN tuh LUH|ZAY shuhn», noun. 1. a dividing into compartments: »Figurative. Because of a curious compartmentalization of thinking, both of the books…manage to side step the really central issue (Saturday Review). 2. the result of such … Useful english dictionary
com|part|men|tal|ize — «KOM pahrt MEHN tuh lyz», transitive verb, ized, iz|ing. 1. to arrange in compartments or sections: »Everything is neatly yet automatically compartmentalized by the tray itself (New Yorker). 2. Figurative. to arrange in categories: »The pursuit… … Useful english dictionary
com|part|men|tal — «KOM pahrt MEHN tuhl», adjective. having or divided into compartments … Useful english dictionary
com|part|men|ta|tion — «kuhm PAHRT muhn TAY shuhn», noun. = compartmentalization. (Cf. ↑compartmentalization) … Useful english dictionary
com|part|ment|ed — «KOM pahrt MEHN tihd», adjective. fitted with, or divided into, compartments; compartmentalized: »a compartmented trunk. Figurative. When I was in the Bureau of Standards, I had my first brush with the stubborn pride of the compartmented mind… … Useful english dictionary
com|part|ment|iz|er car — «kom PAHRT muhn TY zuhr», a boxcar fitted with several rooms or compartments for less than carload shipments … Useful english dictionary
de|com|part|men|tal|i|za|tion — «dee KOM pahrt MEHN tuh luh ZAY shuhn», noun. the act or process of decompartmentalizing: »The Renaissance was a period of decompartmentalization: a period which broke down the barriers which had kept things in order (Erwin Panofsky) … Useful english dictionary
de|com|part|men|tal|ize — «dee KOM pahrt MEHN tuhlyz», transitive verb, ized, iz|ing. to undo the compartmentalization of; free of boundaries, divisions, categories, or the like: »To make Germany an operating concern…Germany had to be decompartmentalized and the zones… … Useful english dictionary
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