Compartments

Train compartments soon get cramped.

The bureau drawer has several compartments.

The ship hull is divided into watertight compartments.

The R.M.S. Titanic was divided into 16 watertight compartments.

The SS Star of the North was a large schooner-rigged cargo steamer, strongly built of iron in watertight compartments, and of nearly two thousand horsepower.

It'll soon be winter, so I'm taking warm things from the top compartments of the wardrobe and putting them somewhere further down.

The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community?

Stow your carry-on luggage in the overhead compartments.

There were no other riders in the adjacent compartments.

Ruminants have four stomach compartments.