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Part   /pɑrt/   Listen
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noun
1.
Something determined in relation to something that includes it.  Synonyms: component, component part, constituent, portion.  "I read a portion of the manuscript" , "The smaller component is hard to reach" , "The animal constituent of plankton"
2.
Something less than the whole of a human artifact.  Synonym: portion.  "Glue the two parts together"
3.
A portion of a natural object.  Synonym: piece.  "He needed a piece of granite"
4.
That which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation.  "They resisted every effort on his part"
5.
The extended spatial location of something.  Synonym: region.  "Religions in all parts of the world" , "Regions of outer space"
6.
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.  Synonyms: function, office, role.  "The government must do its part" , "Play its role"
7.
An actor's portrayal of someone in a play.  Synonyms: character, persona, role, theatrical role.
8.
Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.  Synonyms: percentage, portion, share.
9.
One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.  Synonyms: division, section.  "The finance section of the company" , "The BBC's engineering division"
10.
A line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions.  Synonym: parting.
11.
The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music.  Synonym: voice.
12.
The part played by a person in bringing about a result.  Synonyms: contribution, share.  "They all did their share of the work"
verb
(past & past part. parted; pres. part. parting)
1.
Go one's own way; move apart.  Synonyms: separate, split.
2.
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.  Synonyms: break, break up, separate, split, split up.  "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage" , "My friend and I split up"
3.
Leave.  Synonyms: depart, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off.
4.
Come apart.  Synonyms: divide, separate.
5.
Force, take, or pull apart.  Synonyms: disunite, divide, separate.  "Moses parted the Red Sea"
adverb
1.
In part; in some degree; not wholly.  Synonyms: partially, partly.  "He was partially paralyzed"



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"Part" Quotes from Famous Books



... amid an heaven of song. This phrase points primarily to 'the music of the spheres': the sphere now assigned to Keats had hitherto failed to take part in the music of its fellows, but henceforward will chime in. Probably there is also a subsidiary, but in its context not less prominent meaning—namely, that, while the several poets (such as Chatterton, ...
— Adonais • Shelley
... malady, and so extremely slow is its progress, that it rarely happens, that the patient can form any recollection of the precise period of its commencement. The first symptoms perceived are, a slight sense of weakness, with a proneness to trembling in some particular part; sometimes in the head, but most commonly in one of the hands and arms. These symptoms gradually increase in the part first affected; and at an uncertain period, but seldom in less than twelvemonths or more, the morbid influence is felt ...
— An Essay on the Shaking Palsy • James Parkinson
... into the tangle of birch and poplar he backed, saying: "Of course, I couldn't expect you to take my part against a ...
— The Outcasts • W. A. Fraser
... speech that he showed clearly the importance of giving British finance stability, and how that stability was threatened. A boy at school might have followed his explanation. "We have not only our own business to run; we are an essential part of the machinery that runs the whole international trade of the world. We provide capital and raise produce. We carry half the produce, not merely of our own country, but of the whole world. More than that, ...
— Lloyd George - The Man and His Story • Frank Dilnot
... nearly the very estimate furnished by the right honorable gentleman himself, and published to the world in one of the printed reports of his own committee;[41] but as soon as he obtained his power, he chose to abandon his account. No part of his official conduct can be defended on the ground ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke


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