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Trap :: Trap (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids..

Partition :: Partition (v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law..

Partition :: Partition (v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

Room :: Room (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber..

Syncytium :: Syncytium (n.) Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..

Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

Perimysium :: Perimysium (n.) The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers..

Septifragal :: Septifragal (a.) Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis..

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A partition in any compartment, for various purposes..

Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.

Division :: Division (n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

Interventricular :: Interventricular (a.) Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart..

Withe :: Withe (n.) A partition between flues in a chimney.

Bipartition :: Bipartition (n.) The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided..

Partitioned :: Partitioned (imp. & p. p.) of Partitio.

Nautilus :: Nautilus (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata..

Merismatic :: Merismatic (a.) Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many..

Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns..

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