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[im-pahrt] Origin

im·part

[im-pahrt]
verb (used with object)
1.
to make known; tell; relate; disclose: to impart a secret.
2.
to give; bestow; communicate: to impart knowledge.
3.
to grant a part or share of.
verb (used without object)
4.
to grant a part or share; give.

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Imparting is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin impartīre to share. See im-1, part

im·part·a·ble, adjective
im·par·ta·tion, im·part·ment, noun
im·part·er, noun
non·im·par·ta·tion, noun
non·im·part·ment, noun
EXPAND
pre·im·part, verb (used with object)
self-im·part·ing, adjective
un·im·part·ed, adjective
COLLAPSE


1. reveal, divulge. See communicate. 2. grant, cede, confer.


1. conceal.

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impart
late 15c., from M.Fr. impartir, from L. impartire (also impertire) "to share in, divide with another, communicate," from in- "in" + partire "to divide, part."
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