What is "partition off"

Usage examples of "partition off".

He took a moment to partition off the pain, then turned on the ceiling lights and stepped into the passengers' cabin.

The voice of the young black-bearded Hassidic rabbi throbs through the crowded Tel Nof assembly hall, transformed to a synagogue with a Holy Ark, Torah reading platform, and even latticework to partition off the female soldiers.

Any one but Scott would have had great difficulty reconciling the two sides of his nature but he was apparently quite able to partition off sections of his mind.

Although the fray expressly forbid any misconduct in the house of the poor and put up a blanket to partition off an area whenever a woman stayed, I had seen a l&eacute.

Painted fabric screens had been used to partition off the bathroom and jacuzzi with forest scenes, black backgrounds with tall spindly trees, pale leaves.

This shed was smaller than the old one, but Sacharissa had contrived to partition off a tiny editorial space.

The last of the three I used to partition off Westland, for those who wanted a place to live free of magic, thereby preventing an uprising against the gifted.

It had helped that Elgin had suggested they set up the tub in a comer of the kitchen, with dirty linens used as curtains to partition off the section.

Empty but for a small free-standing partition off to the right, the room possessed few other features: more surveillance, sensor, and weapons ports.

Twenty of the nests were arranged along the walls, with the twenty-first up on the dais, and hastily-rigged curtains put up that could partition off that part of the room to make an individual chamber.