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.
Related words: (words related to COMPARTITION)
- 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.