Dismember vs Partition - What's the difference?
dismember | partition | Synonyms |
To remove the limbs of.
To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
* Shakespeare
A part of something that has been divided.
The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
A vertical structure that divides a room.
That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
* Dryden
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
* Milton
(legal) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
(computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
(databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
(set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
(music) A musical score.
To divide something into parts, sections or shares
To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
Dismember is a synonym of partition.
As verbs the difference between dismember and partition
is that dismember is to remove the limbs of while partition is to divide something into parts, sections or shares.As a noun partition is
an action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.dismember
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Alternative forms
* dismembre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.
- The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.
- The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.
Derived terms
* dismembermentpartition
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(wikipedia partition)Noun
(en noun)- And good from bad find no partition .
- ''Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs
- a brick partition'''; lath and plaster '''partitions
- No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
- Lodged in a small partition .
