Compartmentalize

Quick meaning: Compartmentalize is a verb meaning (transitive) To separate something into different categories, or compartments.

Meaning

(transitive) To separate something into different categories, or compartments.

Example Sentences

(He [speaker Mike Johnson] recently said that women, unlike men, are unable to “compartmentalize” their thoughts.)

Russia and Iran see the wars against Israel and Ukraine as indelibly linked — and we in the West would be foolish to compartmentalize them.

I shook my head at what I saw as this man’s almost pathological ability to compartmentalize the madness he likely played a role in and the quaint, pastoral life he led at the same time. It reminded me of something I was told as a child.

Mediators and co-activators BRD4 and MED1 form phase-separated droplets at SEs that compartmentalize and concentrate the transcription apparatus, suggesting a significant role for co-activators in this process and revealing the regulation mechanisms of function and structure of SE involved in the control of hub cell identity genes.

Word Forms

• compartmentalizes
• compartmentalizing
• compartmentalized
• compartmentalise

Synonyms for compartmentalize

Depending on context, synonyms include cut up, compartmentalise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include compartmentalise, cut up, pigeonhole, compartment, compartmentize, subcompartmentalise.

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