deposit vs partition

deposit

noun
  • Anything left behind on a surface. 

  • Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems. 

  • A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase. 

  • That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another. 

  • A place of deposit; a depository. 

  • Money placed in an account. 

  • A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit 

verb
  • To put money or funds into an account. 

  • To lay down; to place; to put. 

  • To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral. 

  • To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store. 

  • To lay aside; to rid oneself of. 

partition

noun
  • A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment. 

  • A vertical structure that divides a room. 

  • An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are. 

  • A musical score. 

  • An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another. 

  • A part of something that has been divided. 

  • That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space. 

  • The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law. 

  • The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones. 

  • A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts. 

  • A section of a hard disk separately formatted. 

  • A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets). 

verb
  • To divide something into parts, sections or shares. 

  • To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status. 

  • To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off. 

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