compartment (iou) and Pollurian Cove Beach (tourism)

compartment (iou)

compartment noun & verb. As noun also copartment, copartiment. M16.
[French compartiment from Italian compartimento, from compartire from late Latin compartiri: see COMPART verb, -MENT.]
A. noun.
A division or separate part, orig. of a design; a division separated by partitions; spec. (a) Heraldry a panel, grassy mount, etc., below a shield; (b) a discrete section or feature of a formal Garden; (c) a partitioned-off division of a railway carriage; (d) a watertight division of a ship; (e) a section of a parliamentary bill with an allotted time for consideration. M16.
watertight compartment: see WATERTIGHT adjective.
J. F. W. Herschel They divide the spectrum into compartments. S. T. Warner The most peculiar stockings, like gloves, with a compartment for each toe. R. P. Graves Housman began to keep his friendships in separate compartments.
= COMPARTITION 1. E-M18.
b. verb trans. Divide or put into compartments (lit. & fig.). M19.
compartmen'tation noun division into compartments M20.

Pollurian Cove Beach (tourism)

Pollurian Cove Beach is in Cornwall, in South West England (Great Britain).

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