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Compartment vs Compart - What's the difference?

compartment | compart |

As a noun compartment

is a room, or section, or chamber.

As a verb compart is

(obsolete) to divide and share with others.

compartment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A room, or section, or chamber
  • :* "Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class carriage."
  • One of the parts in which an area is subdivided.
  • (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
  • (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
  • compart

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To divide and share with others.
  • To divide into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
  • To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.
  • :If I behold what inventions men have in comparting Musical intervals...
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