1) one of several separate divisions of a structure e.g. of a railway carriage or coach (compartment)

2) one of several divisions of a government, business, shop, university etc (department)

3) one of the (usually colourful) divisions of a flower (petal)

4) one of the four main divisions of the year, i.e. spring, summer, autumn, winter; to add salt, pepper etc to (food) to improve the taste; to make (wood) suitable for use by leaving it to dry (season)

5) to divide (something already divided) into more divisions (subdivide)

6) each of the five divisions of the front part of the foot; a part of a sock, shoe etc covering the toes (toe)

7) (a form of) writing arranged in lines, each with a pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables; one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible (verse)