different between compartment vs discord

English

Etymology

First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?part?ment

Noun

compartment (plural compartments)

1. A room, or section, or chamber

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

2. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
3. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
4. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
5. (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

Derived terms

• engine compartment

Translations

Verb

compartment (third-person singular simple present compartments, present participle compartmenting, simple past and past participle compartmented)

1. (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

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English

Etymology

Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).

Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discord?re, from discord-, as above.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??d/

Noun

discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)

1. Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

   • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

   • 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America

     Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.

2. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
3. (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
4. Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

Derived terms

• apple of discord

Related terms

• discordant
• Discordianism

Translations

Pronunciation 2

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?k??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Verb

discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
2. (transistive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.