noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first-class passenger/seat/compartment etc
freezer compartment
glove compartment
secret compartment/passage etc
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The drugs were found in a secret compartment in Campbell’s suitcase.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
freezer
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Return to the freezer compartment , cover and freeze again for a further 30 minutes.
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It was, alas, also empty of cash, as was the freezer compartment .
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Return to the freezer compartment again and leave for several hours or until required.
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Patrick opened the freezer compartment and poked at the bags filled with several unmoving four-pound crustaceans.
proliferative
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Lipkin proposed that upward expansion of the proliferative compartment of the crypts of the large intestine occurs before adenoma development.
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The factors that influence the size of the proliferative compartment are less clear, though in rats there are genetic differences.
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We did not, however, detect any upward expansion of the proliferative compartment in the background crypts.
secret
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The Ramsland had secret compartments below decks but the Coast Guard knew all about those secret compartments.
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Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
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The Ramsland had secret compartments below decks but the Coast Guard knew all about those secret compartments.
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Detecting secret compartments remains a challenge for immigration inspectors, Ward said.
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The secret compartment was ten feet long, the same as the bathroom, but only three feet wide.
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He learned how to work the truck's secret compartments .
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The mind does not play tricks with us; it holds no secret compartments .
separate
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This is difficult as we are not used to doing it, preferring to keep these approaches in separate compartments .
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The worst aspect of Hinduism is undoubtedly the caste system, which kept the population cooped up in so many separate compartments .
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The bivvy bag can be stored in a separate compartment at the base of the larger compression sack.
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Its study was isolated in a separate compartment until very recent times.
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It was getting impossible to keep their relationship in two separate compartments .
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Each species has evolved to deal with life in separate compartments .
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For Locke the separate compartments for faith and reason, or reason and revelation, did not exist.
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Business matters and personal relationships clearly occupied separate compartments in Guy's life.
small
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In the smaller compartments only two easy chairs were used.
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As she dried herself, banging her elbows against the sides of the small compartment , she started to giggle.
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Some of these boxes have quite small compartments , making them unsuitable for resistors and some other components.
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He always sat at the end of the second coach, in the small , first-class compartment with red plush seats.
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One had toppled over, and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment .
■ NOUN
battery
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The detector should also never be laid in mud or on wet ground as water may enter the battery compartments .
engine
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Start off by cleaning down all the oily and greasy bits - the engine compartment , undercarriage and control surface hinges.
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For example, closed circuit television gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aft deck of the boat.
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It detonated directly beneath U-494's engine compartment .
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He'd opened the smashed engine compartment , and was pointing to where the battery wasn't.
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Two large side panels, which are removed by undoing two knots, cover each side of the engine compartment .
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The engine compartment is completely wax protected and the whole car has three layers of paint rather than two.
glove
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In the glove compartment of his car was another love letter, this time written by her husband.
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Miguel leaned across and opened the glove compartment , pulling out his fat plastic bag of weed.
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She got the revolver off the back seat and put it into the glove compartment with the cartridges.
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I tallied our money, sorted it, found a sickly rubber band in the glove compartment to wrap around it.
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As Harry Chiltern had said, there was always a gun in the glove compartment .
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One inspector was startled to see a woman's face peering back at him from a glove compartment box.
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I took a fresh notebook from the glove compartment and started back to talk to them.
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Before she even left the compound, Yolanda put the list away in the glove compartment .
passenger
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When we entered the aft passenger compartment , it was divided in two.
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Wichman recently designed the passenger compartment for a rocket ship being developed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace.
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It also would allow for bags that fill a larger part of the passenger compartment .
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For the next hour, they waited in the vehicles' hot and humid passenger compartment .
storage
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Down at the bottom there's a handy storage compartment to take care of the utensils when you don't need them.
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The plush padded cover is machine washable and there's a storage compartment for bottles and accessories.
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The glass door can be hinged left or right to suit your kitchen and there is a storage compartment below the oven.
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The internal bulkheads were lined with equipment and storage compartments .
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Windows will be larger, overhead storage compartments will be enclosed and the toilet compartments will have natural light and changing tables.
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Right at the bottom is a handy storage compartment for all your baking trays, dishes and so on.
■ VERB
divide
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One powerful message put across by the curriculum in most schools is that knowledge can be divided into compartments .
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The carriage is divided externally into three compartments , formed by the door and panels on either side.
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For cell kinetics evaluation, each crypt was divided into five compartments of equal size.
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Early ribbed vaults are quadripartite, that is, each bay is divided into four compartments by diagonal ribs.
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These spring from the same points as the diagonals and divide the four large compartments into smaller ones.
enter
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And so she entered one more hidden compartment of her brother's life.
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He then entered the reactor compartment and replaced another sailor on the watch.
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When we entered the aft passenger compartment , it was divided in two.
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He boarded the train for the overnight journey and entered a first-class compartment with his first-class ticket.
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When you enter a railway compartment , the seats are dusted by him.
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The detector should also never be laid in mud or on wet ground as water may enter the battery compartments .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flotation chamber/compartment etc
second-class ticket/fare/compartment/cabin etc
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I wanted two second-class tickets to Coimbra.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Put the ice cream back in the freezer compartment when you are finished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Certain cargoes were transported in compartment boats.
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I walked down the corridors of Hard Class to my compartment , to pack my belongings.
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It involves removing steel partitions, twenty-five feet tall, that presently separate each compartment .
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Modern man sees life as separated into compartments, as mechanistic interactions, where consciousness has no meaning.
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The whole toilet compartment had been splashed.
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The worst aspect of Hinduism is undoubtedly the caste system, which kept the population cooped up in so many separate compartments.
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This intrinsic modifiability also makes it possible to absorb disturbances and protect other compartments.