Word Finder - compartments

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A room, or section, or chamber

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

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One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.

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Part of a protein that serves a specific function.

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A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.

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A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

Two of the five compartments into which it is divided by walls of deeply striated volcanic ash are constantly emitting steam, while a new vent displaying great activity has been opened at the base of the cone on the south side.

The principal faade of the temple is filled in one, two or three compartments with hinged doors, variously ornamented and folding outwards, sometimes in double folds.

The precipitating boxes, generally made of wood but sometimes of steel, and set on an incline, are divided by partitions into alternately wide and narrow compartments, so that the liquor travels upwards in its passage through the wide divisions and downwards through the narrow divisions.

In the wider compartments are placed sieves having sixteen holes to the square inch and bearing zinc turnings.

Ruminating, but the stomach with only three distinct compartments, the maniplies or third cavity of the stomach of the Pecora being rudimentary.

In navigation he suggested many new contrivances, such as water-tight compartments, floating anchors to lay a ship to in a storm, and dishes that would not upset during a gale; and beginning in 1757 made repeated experiments with oil on stormy waters.

Its position is then fixed by an automatic grip, and the coin falling down a shoot enters one of three compartments of a box, according to the position of the beam when it is arrested.

These consist of combinations of faces, circles, lines, &c., arranged in compartments in so complex a manner that hardly two are found alike.

Several were accompanied by boxes divided into four compartments and inscribed with the names of the four deities who represented the internal organs of the body.

In separate compartments there are a number of crayon portraits, most of them by Rosalba Carriera, and views of Dresden by Canaletto and other artists.

Fig, i represents a garden of one acre and admits of nearly double the number of trees on the south aspect as compared with the east and west; it allows a greater number of espalier or pyramid trees to face the south; and it admits of being divided into equal principal compartments, each of which forms nearly a square.

Extensive gardens in exposed situations are often divided into compartments by hedges, so disposed as to break the force of high winds.

Their main principles were the abolition of the curia or electoral class system and the establishment of the franchise on the basis of universal suffrage; and the division of Austria electorally into racial compartments within which each race would be assured against molestation from other races.

Another form is the Hoffmann or ring kiln, made up of a number of compartments arranged in a ring and connected with a central chimney; in these compartments rough brick-shaped masses of the raw materials are stacked, and between these bricks fuel is sprinkled.

At a given moment one of these compartments is burning and at its full temperature; the air for combustion is drawn in through one or more compartments behind it which have just finished burning, and is thereby strongly heated; the products of combustion pass away through one or more compartments in front of it and heat their contents before they are subjected to actual combustion.

Both first and second compartments are remarkable for the presence of a number of pouches or cells in their walls, with muscular partitions, and a sphincter-like arrangement of their orifices, by which they can be shut off from the rest of the cavity, and into which the fluid portion only of the contents of the stomach is allowed to enter.

The mixture is fed in continuously to the central pan (e), whence it overflows into the compartments (c'), (c 2), (c 3) successively until it reaches the circumference, where it is discharged continously by o and into the collecting-box (q), being now converted into salt-cake.

When this percentage has been reached, the cell is rocked to the other side, so that the amalgam flows into one of the outer compartments where the sodium is converted by water into sodium hydrate.

After a certain time the whole is rocked towards the other side, and the process is continued until the outer compartments contain a strong solution of caustic soda, free from chloride and hypochlorite.

The back of the body is occupied by a crest, called the dorsal fin, consisting of a hollow ridge, the cavity of which is divided into about 250 compartments or fin chambers, into each of which, with the exception of those near the anterior and posterior end of the body, projects a stout pillar composed of characteristic laminar tissue, the fin ray.

The buildings in which this process is carried out are built of stone and are divided into compartments heated by means of hot air derived from a system of stoves and flues.

By October the cakes are dry and fairly solid, and are then packed in chests, which are divided into two tiers of twenty square compartments for the reception of as many cakes, which are steadied by a packing of loose poppy trash.'

So long as theological truth is divided into the two compartments of natural or rational theology and incomprehensible revealed mysteries, there is no possibility of carrying through a unity of principle.

Again, Ritschl divides all theology into two compartments, morality and religion; service of men in the Kingdom of God, direct relation to God in the Church by faith.

In some districts the natives live together in one of these giant structures, which are divided into compartments.

Around the wall in the houses of the wealthy were arranged the bedsteads, or rather compartments, with testers and fronts, sometimes made of carved yew.

The surface of the pilasters is divided into compartments encrusted with bas-reliefs of various subjects and styles.

The matrix enclosed compartments that they sit in are called lacunae.

Neat ideas include two concealed underfloor compartments designed to accommodate valuable tools.

You cannot expect lobbyists to keep their different roles in watertight compartments.

Within the cells there are numerous intracellular compartments that operate more or less autonomously from the rest of the cell.

Plus there are 26 stowage compartments dotted around the interior.

The tent has three separate sleeping compartments, between which there is a hidden wardrobe corner, provided with a hanging bar.

The compartments were lavishly furnished with sofas and armchairs and decorated and curtained with crimson and white silk damask.

The only closet is a miserable wooden erection, with two compartments.

New genetic techniques allow the precise decoration of tissues or sub-cellular compartments with intrinsically fluorescent proteins.

Further back in the gloom stood a large hutch, divided into two compartments, one of which was fronted with close iron bars.

Within the cell small compartments, called organelles, are formed.

Compartments are reserved for all group bookings; groups are asked to travel together in the seats reserved for them.

Sleeping accommodations include two elegant staterooms with their own head compartments that provide privacy and comfort.

Holds The lowest cargo stowage compartments in a ship.

With two compartments the infant basket holds bottle collars and soothers in the upper compartment and bottle teats in the bottom basket.

Of course, the two compartments are not watertight.

The next advance, introduced on the Great Western railway in 1892, was the adoption of corridor carriages having a passage along one side, off which the compartments open, and connected to each other by vestibules, so that it is possible to pass from one end of the train to the other.

For instance, fourwheeled bogie third-class corridor carriages employed on the Midland railway at the beginning of the 10th century weighed nearly 25 tons, and had bodies measuring 50 ft.; yet they held only 36 passengers, because not only had the number of compartments been reduced to six, as compared with seven in the somewhat shorter carriage of 1885, by the introduction of a lavatory at each end, but each compartment held only 6 persons, instead of 10, owing to the narrowing of its width by the corridor.

It consists of five rectangular compartments, three on one side of the corridor FIG.

These seven hells are subdivided into innumerable compartments corresponding to every species of sin, where the demons torture the poor deluded human beings who have suffered themselves to be led astray whilst on earth.

The word is applied to various small compartments which build up a compound structure such as a honeycomb, to the minute compartments in a tissue, &c. More particularly the word is used, in electrical science, of the single constituent compartments of a voltaic battery, and in biology of the living units of protoplasm of which plants and animals are composed (see Cytology).

In 1665, physicist Robert Hooke pointed a microscope at a piece of cork and noticed many small compartments he called "cells."

Food is kept fresh in two easy-clean compartments, sealed by close fitting lids and refrigerated by a built-in ice pack.