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partition
in
Farewell to Manzanar
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- Bill and Woody contributed a blanket each and partitioned off the first room: one side for Bill and Tomi, one side for Woody and Chizu and their baby girl.†
Chpt 1.2partitioned = divided
- Partitioning off a room likethat wasn't easy.†
Chpt 1.2 *partitioning = dividing
- Months went by, in fact, before our "home" changed much at all from what it was the day we moved in—bare floors, blanket partitions, one bulb in each compartment dangling from a roof beam, and open ceilings overhead so that mischievous boys likeRay and Kiyo could climb up into the rafters and peek into anyone's life.†
Chpt 1.4
- Down the center of theroom twelve toilet bowls were arranged in six pairs, back to back, with no partitions.†
Chpt 1.4
- Eventually sturdier partitions appeared, one or two at a time.†
Chpt 1.4
- Word would get around that Block such and such had partitions now, and Mama and my older sisters would walk halfway across the camp to use them.†
Chpt 1.4
- By this time the stalls were partitioned.†
Chpt 1.8partitioned = divided
Definitions:
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(1)
(partition) to divide something into parts; or a divider itself, or one of the sections created
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)