Compartment
Compartment noun - One of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided.
Section
Section noun - An area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature.
Compartment is a synonym for section in division topic. You can use "Compartment" instead the word "Section" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as department.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| special | special compartment | special section |
| long | long compartment | long section |
| separate | separate compartment | separate section |
| forward | forward compartment | forward section |
| Other adjectives: empty, heavy, small, entire, large, big, little, tiny, dark, lower, main, inner, new, hidden, underground, next, last, central, giant, flooded. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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BioShock 2 has a section where your train car has been hit with a torpedo, throwing you out of the cab and leaving Sinclair stuck in his passenger compartment in the flooded Dionysus Park station.
Source: Continue Your Mission, Dammit! -
The animated opening of The Return of the Pink Panther has the Pink Panther arrive at a movie theatre in a pink limo with an incredibly long hood... and a tiny passenger compartment and open driver's section.
Source: Absurdly Long Limousine -
The Merkava has a spacious crew compartment with rear-opening doors that can, in extremis, welcome an entire infantry section into its loving bosom and keep them safe... and once they're in there and the doors clang shut, they're prisoners.
Source: Jewish Mother
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