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Definition of Compartmentalise
1. Verb. Separate into isolated compartments or categories. "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!"
Generic synonyms: Disunite, Divide, Part, Separate
Derivative terms: Compartment, Compartment, Compartmentalisation, Compartmentalisation, Compartment, Compartment, Compartmental, Compartmentalization, Compartmentalization
Definition of Compartmentalise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of compartmentalize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compartmentalise
Literary usage of Compartmentalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The People's Voice: The Development and Current State of the South African ...by Adrian Hadland, Karen Thorne by Adrian Hadland, Karen Thorne (2004)
"... media analysts began to talk of the phenomenon of convergence and of how it
was becoming hard to compartmentalise the hitherto autonomous information ..."
2. The Friends of Rathlin Island by Stewart Dalby (2004)
"compartmentalise his thinking and shut out anything which might upset him.
It was a useful trait to have in politics. Carstairs had a personal agenda. ..."
3. Wake Up! the Lord Is Returning by Alf Droy (2005)
"In effect the Christian becomes part ofthe non-voting community, some may vote,
but compartmentalise their faith away from political issues, ..."
4. Women in the City: Housing, Services, and the Urban Environment by OECD Group on Urban Affairs (1995)
"While planners compartmentalise different spheres of activity, people do not.
Integrated and multi- sectoral approaches to urban development present ..."
5. Innovating Schools by SourceOECD (Online service) (1999)
"They hinder inasmuch as these labels tend to compartmentalise. Thus, when different
orientations to curriculum are labelled as "academic", "instrumental", ..."
6. Towards Sustainable Household Consumption?: Trends and Policies in Oecd by Jorge Omar Paolini, OECD Staff, Oecd, Elaine Geyer-Allely (2002)
"Further, psychology indicates that people tend to "compartmentalise" when making
decisions rather than to look at the bigger picture as suggested by the ..."
7. Sample Tasks from the Pisa 2000 Assessment: Reading, Mathematical and by Claudia Vendramel Tamassia, Andreas Schleicher, Irwin S. Kirsch (2002)
"These strands compartmentalise mathematics and often over-emphasise computation
and formulae. At the beginning of the 20 century, mathematics could ..."
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