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part

[pahrt]

noun

a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.

an essential or integral attribute or quality: a sense of humor is part of a healthy personality.

a section or division of a literary work.

a portion, member, or organ of an animal body.

any of a number of more or less equal quantities that compose a whole or into which a whole is divided: Use two parts sugar to one part cocoa.

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an allotted portion; share.

Usually, parts.

a region, quarter, or district: a journey to foreign parts.

a quality or attribute establishing the possessor as a person of importance or superior worth: Being both a diplomat and a successful businesswoman, she is widely regarded as a woman of parts.

either of the opposing sides in a contest, question, agreement, etc.

the dividing line formed in separating the hair of the head and combing it in different directions.

10.

a constituent piece of a machine or tool either included at the time of manufacture or set in place as a replacement for the original piece.

11.

Music.

the written or printed matter extracted from the score that a single performer or section uses in the performance of concerted music: a horn part.

a section or division of a composition: the allegro part of the first movement.

12.

participation, interest, or concern in something; role: The neighbors must have had some part in planning the surprise party.

13.

a person's share in or contribution to some action; duty, function, or office: You must do your part if we're to finish by tonight.

14.

a character or role acted in a play or sustained in real life.

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verb (used with object)

15.

to divide (a thing) into parts; break; cleave; divide.

16.

to comb (the hair) away from a dividing line.

17.

to divide into shares; distribute in parts; apportion.

18.

to put or keep apart; separate: They parted the calves from the herd.

19.

Metallurgy.

to separate (silver) from gold in refining.

to cut (one part) away from a piece, as an end from a billet.

to keep the surface of (a casting) separate from the sand of the mold.

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20.

Obsolete. to leave.

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Part is always a great word to know.

So is half note. Does it mean:

note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note

sequence of notes or chords indicating completion of a composition, section, phrase

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verb (used without object)

21.

to be or become divided into parts; break or cleave: The oil tanker parted amidships.

22.

to go or come apart; separate, as two or more things.

23.

to go apart from or leave one another, as persons: We'll part no more.

24.

to be or become separated from something else (usually followed by from).

25.

Nautical. to break or become torn apart, as a cable.

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26.

to depart.

27.

to die.

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adjective

28.

partial; of a part: part owner.

adverb

29.

in part; partly: part black.

Verb phrase

30.

part with, to give up (property, control, etc.); relinquish: to part with one's money.

Idioms

31.

for one's part, as far as concerns one: For my part, you can do whatever you please.

32.

for the most part, with respect to the greatest part; on the whole; generally; usually; mostly: They are good students, for the most part.

33.

in good part,

without offense; in a good-natured manner; amiably: She was able to take teasing in good part.

to a great extent; largely: His success is in good part ascribable to dogged determination.

34.

in part, in some measure or degree; to some extent; partly; partially: The crop failure was due in part to unusual weather conditions.

35.

on the part of,

so far as pertains to or concerns one: He expressed appreciation on the part of himself and his colleagues.

as done or manifested by: attention on the part of the audience.

Also, on one's part.

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36.

part and parcel, an essential, necessary, or integral part: Her love for her child was part and parcel of her life.

37.

part company,

to bid farewell or go separate ways; leave one another.

to dissolve a personal affiliation, relationship, etc., especially because of irreconcilable differences.

to disagree.

38.

take part, to participate; share or partake: They refused to take part in any of the activities of the community.

39.

take someone's part, to align oneself with; support; defend: His parents took his part, even though he was obviously in the wrong.

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Origin:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English (< Old French < L), Old English < Latin part- (stem of pars) piece, portion; (v.) Middle English parten < Old French partir < Latin partīre, derivative of pars

Related forms

mul·ti·part, adjective

sub·part, noun

Synonyms
1. component, ingredient, division, sector. Part, piece, portion, segment, section, fraction, fragment refer to something that is less than the whole. Part is the general word: part of a house. A piece suggests a part which is itself a complete unit or it may mean an irregular fragment: a piece of pie; a piece of a broken vase. A portion is a part allotted or assigned to a person, purpose, etc.: a portion of food. A segment is often a part into which something separates naturally: a segment of an orange. Section suggests a relatively substantial, clearly separate part that fits closely with other parts to form a whole: a section of a fishing rod, a book. Fraction suggests a less substantial but still clearly delimited part, often separate from other parts: a fraction of his former income. Fragment suggests a broken, inconsequential, incomplete part, with irregular or imprecise outlines or boundaries: a fragment of broken pottery, of information. 6. apportionment, lot. 13. responsibility. 18. sever, sunder, dissociate, disconnect, disjoin, detach.

Antonyms
1. whole. 15. join.

Example Sentences

But the best part of being an adjunct is that it can serve as a kind of professorial apprenticeship.

Instead it must be landed and recorded as part of that boat's quota.

But shark populations are being decimated at a frightening pace, killed in large part simply for their fins.

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But the best part of being an adjunct is that it can serve as a kind of professorial apprenticeship.

Instead it must be landed and recorded as part of that boat's quota.

But shark populations are being decimated at a frightening pace, killed in large part simply for their fins.

One part provides the intention, and the other powers the actual movement.

Part of the fun of this premise of the franchise is to explore history in ways that are both educational but also playful.

Rose screened part of the driveway with easy-care plants and bamboo trellises.

Here's one tricky part that turns out to not actually be so tricky.

But these two places operate as if they are part of the diaspora.

The giant fish is hard to study in part because it is hard to find and track.

Morphine acts on a part of the brain known as the opioid system, which is linked to pain, pleasure and addictive behaviors.

She'd been making the food for so long that the work seemed part of her.

Cut from the outside to allow the center part of the plant to keep growing.

Stay tuned for the second part of this interview, posting later this week.

The footage is from a project intended to help save the endangered sea lions, in part by uncovering where and how the animals eat.

They suggest that the brain does not register the limb as a part of the body, and contains no representation of it.

They blend together wonderfully which is all part of this city's charm.

The color of the juices in any part of the bird is not a good indication of whether it's done.

Carnivores are a major part of the food web, a description of which organisms eat which other organisms in the wild.

After that, the moon will transit across the northern part of the sun.

The bird's obscurity is due in large part to the remoteness of its habitat.

Most lawns are watered by sprinklers--either the hose-end sort or those that are part of a fixed system.

Then have them state some of the unions or alliances that they're part of.

Moore says that part of the reason was experimental design.

Now, backed by the enveloping curves of a stone-filled wire-mesh wall, this part of the yard feels cozy.

Part of the problem with trying to mobilise deposits from poor people is simple economics.

In the future people who need a body part may get their own back--regrown in the lab from their own cells.

When a part of the earth's upper mantle or lower crust melts, magma forms.

The push for new legislation was inspired in part by high-profile outbreaks of.

How you feel depends in no small part on what you eat, and some foods are great at helping produce the result you're looking for.

Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus.

Researchers must purge e-mail in-boxes daily of threatening correspondence, simply part of the job of being a climate scientist.

Diplomacy is as much a part of her work as teaching fingerholds.

In the final part of the programme students complete a project and dissertation.

For world leaders, geography is a crucial part of understanding how the world works.

Part physics, part poetry--the fledgling un-discipline finds commercial opportunity.

It sits between two rail lines in the northern part of the city, on a creek.

The hardest part of building a wood bench is ensuring that its legs are sturdy and well attached.

The arrows would have been fired as part of the opening exchanges.

Part of our protection of individuals members or cliques.

Sounds once such an essential part of life-the ring of a pre-digital telephone-are disappearing.

When a garden plot is part of a play area, learning about plants is bound to be fun.

Part is presumably push: a feeling that he no longer belongs to the place where he lives.

Those were not a part of the information that was received by their maintenance base.

Enriched with dirt that was collected when the ice was still part of a.

Two lion prides are on display, and each rotates into the exhibit for part of the day.

The first part can be found here and covers an introduction.

Part of the fun of tooling around the community is the mixture of high and low architecture and design.

Now some states are starting to put all or part of the training online.

The current social system of production and distribution around the world is a huge part of the problem.

Electrical activity in the brain's motor cortex speeds down the spinal cord to the part of the.

Wilted leaves often perk up if you cut off the damaged part of the stem and put it in water.

But, truth be told, the latkes are still my favorite part.

You've been doing it for years and it's a big part of your daily routine.

Everybody knows that chewing your food carefully is part of good table manners.

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participial.

participle.

particular.

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World English Dictionary

part (pɑːt)

—n
1.	a piece or portion of a whole
2.	an integral constituent of something: dancing is part of what we teach
3.	a. an amount less than the whole; bit: they only recovered part of the money
	b. (as modifier): an old car in part exchange for a new one
4.	one of several equal or nearly equal divisions: mix two parts flour to one part water
5.	a. an actor's role in a play
	b. the speech and actions which make up such a role
	c. a written copy of these
6.	a person's proper role or duty: everyone must do his part
7.	(often plural) region; area: you're well known in these parts
8.	anatomy any portion of a larger structure
9.	a component that can be replaced in a machine, engine, etc: spare parts
10.	(US), (Canadian), (Austral) British equivalent: parting the line of scalp showing when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
11.	music
	a. one of a number of separate melodic lines making up the texture of music
	b. one of such melodic lines, which is assigned to one or more instrumentalists or singers: the viola part; the soprano solo part
	c. See part song such a line performed from a separately written or printed copy
12.	for the most part generally
13.	for one's part as far as one is concerned
14.	in part to some degree; partly
15.	of many parts having many different abilities
16.	on the part of on behalf of
17.	part and parcel an essential ingredient
18.	play a part
	a. to pretend to be what one is not
	b. (foll by in) to have something to do (with); be instrumental (in): to play a part in the king's downfall
19.	take in good part to respond to (teasing) with good humour
20.	take part in to participate in
21.	take someone's part to support someone in an argument

—vb (foll by from) (foll by with) (foll by from)
22.	to divide or separate from one another; take or come apart: to part the curtains; the seams parted when I washed the dress
23.	to go away or cause to go away from one another; stop or cause to stop seeing each other: the couple parted amicably
24.	to leave; say goodbye (to)
25.	to relinquish, esp reluctantly: I couldn't part with my teddy bear
26.	to cause to relinquish, esp reluctantly: he's not easily parted from his cash
27.	(intr) to split; separate: the path parts here
28.	(tr) to arrange (the hair) in such a way that a line of scalp is left showing
29.	(intr) a euphemism for die
30.	archaic (intr) to depart
31.	part company
	a. to end a friendship or association, esp as a result of a quarrel; separate: they were in partnership, but parted company last year
	b. (foll by with) to leave; go away from; be separated from

—*adv*
32.	to some extent; partly

[C13: via Old French from Latin partīre to divide, from pars a part]

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Word Origin & History

part

c.1000, "part of speech," from O.Fr. part, from L. partem (nom. pars, gen. partis) "part, piece, side, share," related to L. portio "share, portion," from PIE base *per- "to assign, allot" (cf. Gk. peprotai "it has been granted," Skt. purtam "reward," Hittite parshiya- "fraction, part"). It has replaced

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native deal in most senses. Theatrical sense (1495) is from an actor's "share" in a performance. Meaning "the parting of the hair" is 1890, Amer.Eng.

part

late 13c., "to divide into parts," from O.Fr. partir "to divide, separate," from L. partire, from pars (see part (n.)). Sense of "to separate (someone from someone else)" is from early 14c.; that of "to take leave" is from early 15c. Meaning "to separate the hair" is attested from 1610s.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

part (pärt)
n.

A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.
Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided.
An organ, a member, or another division of an organism.
An anatomical part; pars.
parts The external genitalia.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

part

In addition to the idioms beginning with part, also see best part of; better half (part of); discretion is the better part of valor; do one's bit (part); fool and his money are soon parted; for one's part; for the most part; in good part; in part; take part; take someone's part.

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