Compartments

Examples

• The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The disc is divided into eight or ten compartments, in each one of which the same figures are repeated, though the positions of one or more of them are changed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Its most familiar form is in a boxlike arrangement, divided longitudinally by a narrow ridge of two compartments, one of which is roughly some three times larger than the other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Pots are used containing the materials to be melted and not heated in the presence of the burning fuel, but by the heated gases in separate compartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The interior is divided into three compartments. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Strong bulkheads, and double bottoms with air-tight compartments, impart buoyancy in case of collision. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Boilers are placed in separate water-tight compartments, so that damage to one does not disable the others. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To obviate the bad results of punctures he proposed also to make his tire in sectional compartments, so that if one compartment was punctured the others would still hold good. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Suppose the disc to be divided into eight compartments, by radial lines. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The compartments were already some of them taken. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This shell is a framework made up of aluminium trellis work, and divided into seventeen compartments, each having its own gas bag. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She knocked at the door--surprise visit, I guess, for he kept his life in water-tight compartments--he let her in, couldn't keep her in the street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Between each of the compartments of the disc there is an elongated aperture, about one inch long and a quarter of an inch wide, for the eye to look through. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It consists of a vertical cylinder divided into compartments, its lower open end resting on the river bottom. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The cars are built in compartments that hold eight persons each. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are usually built of iron, with water-tight compartments, and not closed in at either end. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The end compartments are for use of troops operating machine guns and rifles through the port-holes shown on side of car. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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