partitionist vs partition

partitionist and partition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
partitionist	Yes	No	No	No
partition	Yes	No	Yes	No

partitionist (noun)	partition (noun)
an advocate of partitioning a country	the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
	a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
	(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
	(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit

partitionist (verb)	partition (verb)
	separate or apportion into sections
	divide into parts, pieces, or sections