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Compartment vs Drawer - What's the difference?

compartment | drawer |

As nouns the difference between compartment and drawer

is that compartment is a room, or section, or chamber while drawer is an open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.

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.
  • drawer

    English

    (wikipedia drawer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
  • (non-gloss definition); one who draws.
  • * 2012 August 28, Manny Fernandez, “ Federal Court Finds Texas Voting Maps Discriminatory”, NYTimes.com :
  • Lawyers for Mr. Abbott argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power but not to discriminate, and that drawers did not know where district offices were located.
  • * '>citation
  • An artist who primarily makes drawings.
  • (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
  • A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps.
  • *
  • When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.
  • Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.(w)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer . He had disappeared.}}

    Derived terms

    * chest of drawers * not the sharpest knife in the drawer * top drawer

    See also

    * drawers

    Anagrams

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