different between compartment vs severy

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.

English

Noun

severy (plural severies)

1. A baldacchin.
2. (architecture) A compartment of a vaulted ceiling.
   • 1866, Robert Willis, The Architectural History of Glastonbury Abbey, page 56,

     A handsome flight of steps, extending across the whole from wall to wall, occupied nearly the whole of the eastern severy, and led up from the pavement of this building to the great west door of the church, which terminates the interior eastward, and was designed and built in connection with it.

   • 1968, Paul Frankl, James Francis O'Gorman, Principles of Architectural History: The Four Phases of Architectural Style, 1420-1900, page 64,

     Cylindrical severies would have no place between these arches.

   • 1982, Thomas E. Polk, Saint-Denis, Noyon and the Early Gothic Choir: Methodological Considerations for the History of Early Gothic Architecture, Volume 1, page 42,

     Because the two wall arches of each chapel are not centrally located in relation to the vault severies above them (27), these severies are asymmetrical (Illustrations 16 and 21).

Synonyms

• civery