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part

noun
/pɑːt/UK/pɑɹt/US/pɐːt//pɑɹt/CA

Etymology

From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to Latin portiō (“a portion, part”), parāre (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slifan (“to split”)).

  1. derived from *par-✻
  2. derived from partem
  3. derived from part
  4. inherited from part
  5. inherited from part

Definitions

  1. A portion

    A portion; a component.

    • Gaul is divided into three parts.
    • I was in Australia part of last year.
    • Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

  2. Duty

    Duty; responsibility.

    • to do one’s part

  3. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

    • The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
  4. ›+ 16 more definitions

    1. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

    2. A constituent of character or capacity

      A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

      • which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
      • men of considerable parts
      • great quickness of parts

    3. To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]).

      • He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
      • It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
      • There is an hour when I must part / From all I hold most dear

    4. To divide in two.

      • to part the curtains
      • I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.

    5. To cut hair with a parting.

    6. To be divided in two or separated.

      • A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.
      • I see the Red Sea part in front of me I see the desert clouds bleed above me I'm with the prophets on the final destiny We'll fight the heathens and the ghost enemy This is the prophecy

    7. To divide up

      To divide up; to share.

      • He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
      • He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state […]
      • They parted my raiment among them.

    8. To have a part or share

      To have a part or share; to partake.

      • They shall part alike.

    9. To separate or disunite

      To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

      • The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
      • While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

    10. To hold apart

      To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

      • The stumbling night did part our weary powers.

    11. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

      • to part gold from silver
      • The liver minds his own affair,[…]/ And parts and strains the vital juices.

    12. To leave

      To leave; to quit.

      • since presently your souls must part your bodies

    13. To leave (an IRC channel).

      • He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"[…]so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do[…]maybe talk[…]so we did[…]since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).

    14. Fractional

      Fractional; partial.

      • Fred was part owner of the car.

    15. Partly

      Partly; partially; fractionally.

      • Part finished

    16. to a partial degree.

      • My Native American friend is also part German and part French.

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Derived

afterpart, art and part, auto part, bad part of town, bairn's part, be part of life's rich pageant, be part of life's rich pattern, be part of life's rich tapestry, best part of, better part of, bit part, body-part, body part, breeches part, character part, counterpart, daypart, dead's part, discretion is the better part of valor, discretion is the better part of valour, do one's part, dress the part, foreign parts, forepart, for one's own part, for one's part, for the most part, fourth part, hinderpart, hindpart, imaginary part, in bad part, in good part, in ill part, in no small part, in part, integration by parts, intimate parts, jellybean part, lady parts · +89 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for part. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA