Partition vs Distinguish - What's the difference?
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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
To see someone or something as different from others.
* {{quote-book, author=De Lacy O'Leary, title=, year=1922
, passage=It had begun to take a leading place even in the days of the Ptolemies, and in scientific, as distinguished from purely literary work, it had assumed a position of primary importance early in the Christian era.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
, title=A Palette of Particles
, volume=100, issue=2, page=146
, magazine=(American Scientist)
To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
* 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. ,
(obsolete) To make to differ.
* Bible, 1 Cor. iv. 7 (Douay version)
As a noun partition
is partition (section of a hard disk separately formatted).As a verb distinguish is
to see someone or something as different from others.partition
English
(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 .
Usage notes
* (set theory) The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.Synonyms
* dismembermentDerived terms
* equipartitionVerb
(en verb) (transitive)Synonyms
* dismemberDerived terms
* partitioner * partitionistdistinguish
English
Verb
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PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
- Who distinguisheth thee?
