Compartment vs. Room

Compartmentnoun

A room, or section, or chamber

‘Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class railway carriage.’;

Roomadjective

Wide; spacious; roomy.

Compartmentnoun

One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.

Roomadverb

Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.

Compartmentnoun

(biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.

Roomadverb

(nautical) Off from the wind.

Compartmentnoun

(heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.

Roomnoun

Opportunity or scope (to do something).

Compartmentnoun

(anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

Roomnoun

(uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity. t

Compartmentverb

(transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

Roomnoun

(archaic) A particular portion of space.

Compartmentnoun

One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.

‘In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work.’;

Roomnoun

Sufficient space for or to do something.

Compartmentnoun

One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.

Roomnoun

(nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.

Compartmentnoun

a small space or subdivision for storage

Roomnoun

(obsolete) Place; stead.

Compartmentnoun

a partitioned section or separate room within a larger enclosed area

Roomnoun

(countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. t

Roomnoun

(countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.

‘Go to your room!’;

Roomnoun

(in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.

Roomnoun

The people in a room.

‘The room was on its feet.’;

Roomnoun

(mining) An area for working in a coal mine. s

Roomnoun

(caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. s

Roomnoun

A forum or chat room.

‘Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.’;

Roomnoun

Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

Roomnoun

Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.

Roomverb

(intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

‘Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.’;

Roomverb

(transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Roomnoun

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.

‘Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.’; ‘There was no room for them in the inn.’;

Roomnoun

A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.

‘If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.’; ‘When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room.’;

Roomnoun

Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.

‘I found the prince in the next room.’;

Roomnoun

Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.

‘When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.’; ‘Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.’; ‘Let Bianca take her sister's room.’;

Roomnoun

Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

‘There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.’; ‘Make room, and let him stand before our face.’;

Roomverb

To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

Roomadjective

Spacious; roomy.

‘No roomer harbour in the place.’;

Roomnoun

an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling;

‘the rooms were very small but they had a nice view’;

Roomnoun

space for movement;

‘room to pass’; ‘make way for’; ‘hardly enough elbow room to turn around’;

Roomnoun

opportunity for;

‘room for improvement’;

Roomnoun

the people who are present in a room;

‘the whole room was cheering’;

Roomverb

live and take one's meals at or in;

‘she rooms in an old boarding house’;

Room

In a building, a room is any space enclosed within a number of walls to which entry is possible only by a door or other dividing structure that connects it either to a passageway, to another room, or to the outdoors, that is large enough for several persons to move about, and whose size, fixtures, furnishings, and sometimes placement within the building support the activity to be conducted in it.