Part

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English

Noun

Part (plural Parts)
  1. A fraction of a whole; a portion syn. transl.
    Gaul is divided into three parts.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
      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. A distinct element or component
    The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
  3. A group inside a larger group syn. transl.
  4. duty; responsibility
    to do one’s part
  5. share, especially of a profit
    I want my part of the bounty.
  6. Position or role (especially in a play)
    We all have a part to play.
  7. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture
    The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
  8. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink
  9. A section of a document
    Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
  10. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions syn. transl.
    The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
  11. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece
    The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
  12. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds syn.
  13. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
      the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part.

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Verb

Part (third-person singular simple present Parts, present participle Parting, simple past and past participle Parted)

  1. (intransitive) to leave
  2. to cut hair with a parting
  3. (transitive) To divide in two.
    to part the curtains
    • 1884: Mark Twain , The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Chapter VII
      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.
  4. (intransitive) to be divided in two or separated
  5. (transitive, now rare) to divide up; to share
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:
      He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
    • , II.x:
      He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state [...].
  6. (transitive, computing) to leave (an IRC channel)

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Adjective

Part (not comparable)

  1. fractional, partial
    Fred was part owner of the car.

Adverb

Part (comparative more Part, superlative most Part)

  1. partly, partially, fractionally

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Preposition

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Part

  1. (often as “part (something), part (something else)”) partially composed of
    • 1919, Henry Seidel Canby, Ph. D., Making of America Project: New Books Reviewed, page 711:
      “ We cannot make a plodding and sensible community—a Holland or a Pennsylvania—out of a national personality which, whether by harsh circumstance or native tendency, is now part genius, part fanatic, and part hard-headed materialist.”

Adjectives for Part

tragic; constituent; pompous; closely-fitted; moving; disconsolate; balancing; affected; integral; drossy; prime; splendid; significant; remote; authoritative; confused; convivial; eastern; pendulous; dissimilar; Initial; sensitive; intimate; symbolical; animate; imaginative; tender; essential; distinguished; energetic; conspicuous; swaggering; moneyed; plump; outer; considerable; leading; prominent; decisive; manful; susceptible; formative; timely; striking; negative; tropical; immense; stubborn; uncourte-ous; oratorical; sequestered; active; subordinate; barbarous; relevant; invaluable; coloristic; abiding; incalculable; prudent; injurious; airy; speculative; theoretical; arid; generous; working; corresponding; aspiring; appropriate; reflex; innermost; understandable; related; declining; conventional; substantial; cumbrous; active; respectable; uttermost; metaphysical; slavish; various (pi); prefatory; effective; creditable; corresponding; over-stately; brilliant; evanescent; hindmost; worshipful; legitimate; retrenched; low; discreet; comedy; wondrous; fundamental; subsequent; external; virtuous; inherent; precipitous; inseparable; singular; choice; dominating; arduous; painful; brute; honorable; amiable; generous ; sovereign; obnoxious; worthy; component; outward; membranous; mirthful; serious; vulgar; contiguous; incombustible; unsettled; vulnerable; pleasant; unprofitable; important; pathetic; virtuous; analogous; impertinent; midland; outlying; dissi¬pated; vital; structural; treacherous; adjacent; retired; uninteresting; personal; formal; shady; loud-sounding; individual; restricted; inglorious; ghostly; romantic; impressive; desolate; sudden; prodigious; disjointed; inaccessible; disheartening; intrepid; lamentable.

Verbs for Part

accept—; acclaim—; balk at—; convey— enact—; exaggerate—; live—; master— perform—; render—; reproduce—; scorn— sink into—; slip into—; treat—; wangle— —affords; —allows.

Adverbs for Part

despairingly; amicably; haughtily; meekly; convivially; pathetically; formally; romantically; lamentably.

Thesaurus

abrupt, absolute interest, accompaniment, actor, adjunct, after a fashion, airspace, alienate, allotment, allowance, alto, amount, anacrusis, antagonist, antihero, apportion, appreciably, appurtenance, area, arrangement, arrested, article, as for, as regards, aspect, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, baritone, bass, bass passage, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, batch, be lost, behalf, belt, benefit, big end, bigger half, bit, bit part, bite, bolt, book, bourdon, break up, bridge, broach, budget, bunch, burden, business, by, by and large, cadence, callow, canto, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, capacity, carve, carve up, cast, cast off, cast out, cause, cease to be, cease to live, census, chapter, character, chiefly, chink, chorus, chunk, circumstance, claim, clause, cleave, clutch, coda, coil, column, commission, common, comparatively, component, composition, condition, confines, constituent, constituents, content, contents, continental shelf, contingent, contingent interest, continuo, contralto, contribute to, copy, corner, corridor, count, country, crack, crevasse, cue, cut, cut adrift, cut off, cut open, cut out, cut up, deactivate, deal, debrief, decease, defective, deficient, delete, demob, demobilize, depart, depart this life, department, descant, destiny, detach, detail, detectably, development, die, disarticulate, disband, discharge, disconnect, disengage, disintegrate, disjoin, disjoint, dismiss, disorganize, dispart, dispel, disperse, dissociate, dissolve, district, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, dividend, division, divisions, divorce, divvy up, dole, dose, draft, drone, duty, easement, edition, eject, element, elements, embryonic, end, environs, equal share, equitable interest, equity, essentially, estate, estrange, expel, expire, exposition, faction, factor, failing, fairly, fall, fall asleep, fascicle, fat part, fate, feature, feeder, figure, figured bass, fissure, fixings, fly open, folderol, forgo, forsake, fractional, fragment, fragmentary, function, generally, give up, go, go away, go off, go out, go separate ways, gob, grant a divorce, grant an annulment, ground, ground bass, group, guts, half, halfway, halver, harmonic close, heap, heartland, heavy, helping, hero, heroine, hinterland, holding, hunk, hymnal, hymnbook, hypoplastic, immature, in a manner, in a way, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in part, in short supply, in some measure, in support of, in the main, inadequate, incise, incomplete, incompletely, index, infant, influence, ingenue, ingredient, ingredients, innards, insides, installment, instrumental score, integrant, interest, interlude, intermezzo, interspace, interval, introductory phrase, inventory, involvement, isolate, item, items, job, join in, keep apart, lacking, land, large amount, lay open, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, leastwise, leave, let go, libretto, limitation, limited, line, lines, list, livraison, lot, lute tablature, mainly, make a space, makings, measure, meed, merely, mess, mildly, milieu, missing, moderately, modestly, modicum, moiety, mostly, movement, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical phrase, musical score, musical sentence, muster out, needing, neighborhood, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, notation, number, obtain a divorce, office, offshore rights, on the whole, one-and-a-half, only, ope, open, open up, opera, opera score, orchestral score, ornament, pack, paragraph, parcel, part and parcel, part company, part with, partake of, partial, partially, participate in, participation, partition, partly, parts, party, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, passage, patchy, percentage, period, perish, person, personage, phrase, piano score, piece, place, plain chant, plain song, portion, position, precincts, premises, prick song, principally, pro tanto, proportion, protagonist, province, pull apart, pull away, pull back, pull out, purely, purlieus, put apart, put asunder, put away, put off mortality, quality, quantity, quantum, quarter, quit this world, quota, rake-off, ration, refrain, region, relation, relatively, release, relinquish, remove, renounce, rent, resolution, response, responsibility, return to dust, rift, right, right of entry, rip, ritornello, rive, role, roll, run, sacrifice, salient, say, scant, scanty, scatter, score, scrap, scrappy, section, sectional, segment, segmental, segmentary, segregate, separate, sequester, serial, set apart, set aside, set at intervals, settlement, shard, share, share out, share with, sheet music, short, short score, shut off, shy, side, simply, sketchy, slice, slice the pie, slice up, slit, small amount, small share, so far, soil, some, somewhat, songbook, songster, soprano, soubrette, space, space out, specialty, split, split up, spread, spread out, spring open, stake, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, stanza, statement, status, step aside, stock, stop breathing, straight part, strain, strict settlement, strip, subtract, succumb, sue for divorce, sum, supporting character, supporting role, surrender, swing open, tablature, tailpiece, tap, tear, tear open, tenor, terrain, territory, text, thorough bass, three-mile limit, throw off, throw open, throw out, thus far, title, title role, to a degree, to some degree, to some extent, tolerably, transcript, transcription, treble, trust, tutti, tutti passage, twelve-mile limit, uncouple, underdeveloped, undersong, undeveloped, unit, unmarry, untie the knot, unyoke, up and die, use, usually, variation, verse, version, vested interest, vicinage, vicinity, villain, visibly, vocal score, voice, voice part, volume, walk-on, walking part, wanting, whole, withdraw, written music, yield, yield the ghost, zone

Etymology

From Middle English part from Old French part from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”). Akin to portio (“a portion, part”), parare (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele "part" (from Old English dǣl "part, distribution"), Middle English dale "part, portion" (from Old English dāl "portion"), Middle English sliver "part, portion" (from Middle English sliven "to cut, cleave" from Old English (tō)slīfan "to split").

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Translations

Noun

fraction of a whole def. syn. </span>
group inside a larger group def. syn. </span>
position or role def. syn. </span>
3.5 cl portion in a drink
section of a document def. </span>
hair dividing line def. syn. </span>
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Verb

to leave
to cut hair with a parting
to divide in two
to become divided in two or separated
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Adjective

  • (fractional, partial): See partial.

Adverb

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Noun

Part m. (plural Parts)

  1. birth
  2. (figuratively) birth of an idea

Noun

Part f. (plural Parts)

  1. part

Adjective

  1. relating to Parthia; Parthian

Noun

Part m. (plural Parts; feminine parta; feminine plural partes)

  1. Parthian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard) IPA: /ˈpaɾt/
  • (Alghero) IPA: /ˈpaɫt/

Etymology 1

From Latin partus.

Etymology 2

From Latin partem, accusative of pars.

Etymology 3

From Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).

Estonian

Noun

Part

  1. duck

Faroese

Noun

Part m.

  1. part, accusative singular of partur
    fyri ein part - partial

French

Noun

Part f. (plural Parts)

  1. share
    une grande part - a large share
  2. portion, part
    une grande part de tarte - a large portion of cake
    pour ma part - for my part, as far as I'm concerned, as for me
    pour la part de mon ami - as far as my friend's concerned, as for my friend

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Verb

Part

  1. third-person singular present indicative of partir

Noun

Part m. (plural Parts)

  1. newborn

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin partem.

Etymology 2

Conjugated form of -ir verb partir

Etymology 3

From Latin partus

Hungarian

Noun

Part (plural Partok)

  1. shore, bank, beach

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpɒrt/
  • Hyphenation: part

Declension

declension of Part
singular plural
nominative Part partok
accusative partot partokat
dative partnak partoknak
instrumental parttal partokkal
causal-final partért partokért
translative parttá partokká
terminative partig partokig
essive-formal partként partokként
essive-modal - -
inessive partban partokban
superessive parton partokon
adessive partnál partoknál
illative partba partokba
sublative partra partokra
allative parthoz partokhoz
elative partból partokból
delative partról partokról
ablative parttól partoktól
possessives of Part
possessor singular possession plural possession
1st person sing. partom partjaim
2nd person sing. partod partjaid
3rd person sing. partja partjai
1st person plural partunk partjaink
2nd person plural partotok partjaitok
3rd person plural partjuk partjaik

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Swedish

Noun

Part c.

  1. part, piece
  2. party (law: person), stakeholder
    att vara part i målet
    to have a stake in the claim, to partial, to be biased
    arbetsmarknadens parter
    the stakeholders of the labour market, i.e. trade unions and employers' organizations

Declension

Declension of Part
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Part Parten Parter Parterna
genitive Parts Partens Parters Parternas

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