English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language

partition English

Meaning partition meaning

What does partition mean?
Definitions in simple English

partition Noun

— A partition is a physical barrier which separates a space into two parts. Our office is divided up by partitions.

partition Verb

— The act of separating something into two or more pieces or parts.

partition

— noun a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) — noun (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism — verb separate or apportion into sections partition a room off — noun (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit — verb divide into parts, pieces, or sections The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British — noun (= partitioning) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

Synonyms partition synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as partition?

partition English » English

division wall divide divider separation distribution separate segmentation section partition off compartment subdivision split part deal segment screen apportionment share septum portion partitioning parting dividing dissect dismemberment cubicle allotment zone subdivide sub-unit split up sever segregate sectionalization sectionalisation mark off dividing wall distribute distinction dissever dispense diaphragm demarcation cut compart classification boundary assignment apportion

Conjugation partition conjugation

How do you conjugate partition?

partition · verb

Examples partition examples

How do I use partition in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The bullet penetrated the partition.
This partition separates the two rooms.

Movie subtitles

This person desires that one room of her apartment be divided in two by a partition.
Then I saw the partition doors open, so I got up an hour ago.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. who sat out the war as Hitler's guest in Berlin. has met in Aley, Lebanon, with representatives of the Arab nations. to coordinate action against Palestinian Jews. in the event Partition is granted.
Mr. Ben Canaan, even if you get a partition and a free Jewish state. the Arabs won't let you keep it.
If the UN votes for Partition, we'll have the Arab world on our backs. Our only hope is an alliance between Irgunand Haganah.
The UN may vote on Partition by the end of the month.
So? If Partition is voted, we'll need every man to fight the Arabs.
If we can't trust each other, there'll be no Israel, even if Partition is voted.
Norway votes. for Partition.
The Republic of Paraguay. votes. for Partition.
We apologize for the glass partition but you will understand we must keep our atmosphere in here.
That must be the partition.
After the partition in 1947, the jute fields ended up in East Pakistan, the factories in India.
A far more sophisticated intrusion avoidance device known as schizophonetic partition was evolved by one of the female subjects during the group isolation sanatorium phase.
I thought that this partition was to be here.
The partition is very rigid because the stove is bolted to the floor on the other side.
Now, at the first sign of trouble, go in here. And sit on the floor with your back against the partition. See, this parti.
This partition is very rigid, because the stove here is bolted to the floor.
He told me he'd just finished building a very thin partition wall. - One of those you could poke open with your finger. - So?
We go in. there's a partition wall that's a pushover. And there we are. the crib's room.
If Partition is voted, we'll need every man to fight the Arabs.
The partition of Siam.
What's the idea of the partition?
He told me he'd just finished building a very thin partition wall. one of those you could poke open with your finger. so?
We go in. there's a partition wall that's a pushover. and there we are: crib's room.
We'll nail this door up and put a partition here.
A falling glass. a glass partition.
Since the United Nations voted for partition the British are leaving, slowly turning over their fortified positions to all the Arabs in this country who've never loved us.
Afterwards this piano was sold and the partition was removed to enlarge a bedroom.
I sometimes used to hear you through the echoing partition.
I don't know I'm sure whether we should partition Palestine or not.
The lines are so clean, and you don't get any of that partition quality.
We pushed through this sub-partition wall, one of the guys freaks, sees this.

News and current affairs

In 1947 Palestinian Arabs and their allies rejected a UN proposal to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, just as ten years before they rejected a similar partitioning proposed by the Peel Commission.
In 1947, they refused the UN partition plan, which called for the establishments of two states in British Palestine.
As long as that partition remains in place, SDRs will function, at best, like a credit line that can be used unconditionally by the holder - a kind of overdraft facility, not a true reserve asset.
At midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born on a subcontinent ripped apart by a bloody partition.
Despite partition, India's mood in the first decades of independence was one of idealism and hope.
The third failure - even more tragic - occurred in 1947-48, when Palestinian Arabs rejected the United Nations partition plan, which envisaged separate Arab and Jewish states after the departure of the British.
If the Hamas-Fatah split brings about another territorial partition, Palestinians' national aspirations will suffer their gravest setback in the last half-century.
The Munich Agreement gave this region, referred to by the Nazis as the Sudetenland, to Germany, leaving Czechoslovakia without defensible borders and paving the way for the Nazi invasion and partition of the country the following March.
While Serbia has resisted partition of Kosovo, Russia would also support a Serbian proposal to partition the Serb-populated north, an effort that would open up a Pandora's box of possible partition of Serbia, Bosnia, and Macedonia.
The West should make clear to Serbia that it will react vigorously against any efforts to promote violence or partition Kosovo.
The consequences of partition, however, remain: Pakistan has not yet been able to evolve an administratively credible government.
Under his rule almost half a million Serbs were expelled from Croatia; he, too, sent troops into Bosnia to partition Bosnian territory.
Only those who understand the pain of the partition of British India in 1947 will appreciate the powerful symbolism of a child of Hindu parents being welcomed back warmly to Muslim Pakistan.
The Palestinian Arab state envisioned by the United Nations' 1947 partition plan, which was to include Gaza, was never established.
The most outspoken anti-government forces in Santa Cruz seem to be itching for partition.
For example, following Vietnam's partition in the wake of France's defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam's last non-Communist president, was able to turn to the US military for support.
The fourth scenario is partition, with the old three-province, Ottoman-style setup commonly mentioned: Cyrenaica (east), Fezzan (south), and Tripolitania (west).
The brutal behavior of the Sudanese regime based in Khartoum has made the country's evolution towards partition both inevitable and legitimate.
The main question now is whether partition will be held up as a model and a precedent elsewhere in Africa.
Today's Israelis are rejecting recognition of Palestinian statehood on a much smaller territory than that assigned to Arabs by the original partition.
The Babri Masjid had lain unused for a half-century before its destruction, as most of Ayodhya's Muslims had emigrated to Pakistan after Partition.
In fact, the most likely outcome of any Afghan power struggle triggered by an American withdrawal would be to formalize the present de facto partition of Afghanistan along ethnic lines - the direction in which Iraq, too, is headed.
Failure in WWI led to radicalization under Adolf Hitler, which ended in total defeat and Germany's partition.
The most likely post-war scenario is a partition of Afghanistan, with the Taliban calling the shots in the Pashtun-dominated south and east, and the non-Pashtun northern and western regions retaining their current de facto autonomy.

Are you looking for...?

partition plate | partitionment | partitionless | partition cap | partitionist | partitionism | partitioning | partitioner | partitioned | partitional | partitionable | partition out
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA