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Partition vs Panelling - What's the difference?

partition | panelling |

As nouns the difference between partition and panelling

is that partition is an action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another while panelling is the panels wherewith a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.

As verbs the difference between partition and panelling

is that partition is to divide something into parts, sections or shares while panelling is present participle of lang=en.

partition

English

(wikipedia partition)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And good from bad find no partition .
  • A part of something that has been divided.
  • The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
    • ''Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs
  • A vertical structure that divides a room.
    • a brick partition'''; lath and plaster '''partitions
  • 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
    • No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
  • A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
  • * Milton
    • Lodged in a small partition .
  • (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.

    • Usage notes

    * (set theory) The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.

    Synonyms

    * dismemberment

    Derived terms

    * equipartition

    Related terms

    * partite

    Verb

    (en verb) (transitive)
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * dismember

    Derived terms

    * partitioner * partitionist

    Related terms

    * partner

    panelling

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Of the past participle: paneling.

    Noun

  • The panels wherewith a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling , with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}

    Verb

    (head)