engine compartment• It detonated directly beneath U-494's engine compartment.• He'd opened the smashedengine compartment, and was pointing to where the battery wasn't.• Start off by cleaning down all the oily and greasybits - the engine compartment, undercarriage and control surfacehinges.• Two large side panels, which are removed by undoing two knots, cover each side of the engine compartment.• For example, closed circuittelevision gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aftdeck of the boat.• The engine compartment is completely wax protected and the whole car has three layers of paint rather than two.
first-class compartment• He boarded the train for the overnightjourney and entered a first-class compartment with his first-classticket.• As it was early afternoon there were no maddingcrowds, and she secured a first-class compartment to herself.• He found an emptyfirst-class compartment, and she reached it by way of the corridor after the train had pulled out.• He always sat at the end of the second coach, in the small, first-class compartment with redplushseats.
Origincompartment
(1500-1600)Frenchcompartiment, from Italian, from compartire“to mark out into parts”