COMPARTMENTALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compartmentalize mean? 

• COMPARTMENTALIZE (verb)
  The verb COMPARTMENTALIZE has 1 sense:

1. separate into isolated compartments or categories

  Familiarity information: COMPARTMENTALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARTMENTALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they compartmentalize    ... he / she / it compartmentalizes   
Past simple: compartmentalized   
Past participle: compartmentalized   
-ing form: compartmentalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separate into isolated compartments or categories

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

compartmentalise; compartmentalize; cut up

Context example:

You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!

Hypernyms (to "compartmentalize" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

compartment (a space into which an area is subdivided)

compartmental (divided up into compartments or categories)

compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

compartmentalization (a mild state of dissociation)

 Context examples 

Morphologically it is characterized by a massive diffuse lymphocytic proliferation associated with compartmentalizing fibrosis.

(Mediastinal (Thymic) Large B-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

The phosphorylation of CFTR by PKA disrupts the complex and leads to compartmentalized and specific signaling of the channel.

(CFTR Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)