berth vs compartment

berth

noun
  • Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) 

  • A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. 

  • position on the field of play 

  • A job or position, especially on a ship. 

  • Position or seed in a tournament bracket. 

  • A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). 

  • A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. 

verb
  • To use a device to bring a spaceship into its berth/dock 

  • to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth/berthing 

  • to assign a berth (bunk or position) to 

compartment

noun
  • A room, or section, or chamber 

  • Part of a protein that serves a specific function. 

  • A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand. 

  • One of the parts into which an area is subdivided. 

  • A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane. 

verb
  • To arrange in separate compartments. 

How often have the words berth and compartment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )