All compartmentalise synonyms
com·part·men·tal·ize
C c verb compartmentalise
- isolate — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- segregate — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
- insulate — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
- assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- classify — To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
- comb — A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
- compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- intervene — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
- island — a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
- order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- seclude — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- sift — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- sort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- space — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- winnow — to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
- single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
- split up — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.