compartmentalize

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[ US /kəmˌpɑɹtˈmɛntəˌɫaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. separate into isolated compartments or categories
    You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
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How To Use compartmentalize In A Sentence

  • They compartmentalize terminal steps of anaerobic energy metabolism but, unlike mitochondria, hydrogenosomes cannot use oxygen as an electron acceptor; they reduce protons to molecular hydrogen.
  • He compartmentalizes the disparate aspects of his life and shifts gears between them on the spot, rarely looking back.
  • Part of the attraction for journalists, Walsh suggests, is that the drama broaches the vexed issue of the way in which news is compartmentalised.
  • Admittedly this compartmentalizes him too much.
  • That's not about knowledge of cold, hard facts - that's about a modest analytical ability to compartmentalise unassociated information.
  • most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized
  • Traditionally men have compartmentalized their lives, never letting their personal lives encroach upon their professional lives.
  • I further suggest that the human capacity to compartmentalize categories of thinking is sufficiently great as to permit simultaneous belief in assertions that are contradictory.
  • Terry's got a remarkable ability to compartmentalize things. AFTERMATH
  • Strategies include instruction and practice in the use of date books, calendars, reminder notes, compartmentalized pill boxes, electronic cuing devices, automatic telephone dialers and the like.
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