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Word Meanings - COMPARTITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.

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  • DIVIDER
    An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
  • NEEDFUL
    1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. Chaucer. The needful time of trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite. All things needful for defense abound. Dryden. -- Need"ful*ly, adv. -- Need"ful*ness, n.
  • DIVIDEND
    A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
  • NEEDLESS
    1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • NEEDLESTONE
    Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • COMPARTMENT
    One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or
  • NEEDILY
    In a needy condition or manner; necessarily. Chaucer.
  • NEEDMENT
    Something needed or wanted. pl.
  • NEEDLEWOMAN
    A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
  • NEED
    1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. And the city had no need of the sun. Rev. xxi. 23. I have no need to beg. Shak. Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. Jer. Taylor. 2. Want
  • NEEDLY
    Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard. R. D. Blackmore.
  • DIVIDUOUS
    Divided; dividual. He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.
  • NEEDINESS
    The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
  • NEEDLE
    One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
  • NEEDER
    One who needs anything. Shak.
  • DIVIDEDLY
    Separately; in a divided manner.
  • DIVIDINGLY
    By division.
  • DIVIDED
    Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
  • SUBINDIVIDUAL
    A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
  • MISDIVISION
    Wrong division.
  • INDIVIDUALIZER
    One who individualizes.
  • SUBDIVIDE
    To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
  • REDIVIDE
    To divide anew.
  • UNDIVIDUAL
    Indivisible. True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.

 

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