Associations to the word «Part»

Wiktionary

PART, noun. (heading) A portion; a component.
PART, noun. A fraction of a whole.
PART, noun. A distinct element.
PART, noun. A group inside a larger group.
PART, noun. Share, especially of a profit.
PART, noun. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
PART, noun. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
PART, noun. A section of a document.
PART, noun. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
PART, noun. (math) (dated) A factor.
PART, noun. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
PART, noun. Duty; responsibility.
PART, noun. Position or role (especially in a play).
PART, noun. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
PART, noun. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
PART, noun. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
PART, noun. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
PART, noun. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
PART, verb. (intransitive) To leave.
PART, verb. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
PART, verb. (transitive) To divide in two.
PART, verb. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
PART, verb. (transitive) (now rare) To divide up; to share.
PART, verb. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
PART, verb. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
PART, verb. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
PART, verb. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
PART, verb. To leave; to quit.
PART, verb. (transitive) (internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
PART, adjective. Fractional; partial.
PART, adverb. Partly; partially; fractionally.
PART AND PARCEL, noun. (idiomatic) An integral or essential piece; that which must be done or accepted as part of something else.
PART COMPANY, verb. (idiomatic) To end a relationship
PART COMPANY, verb. (idiomatic) (of two or more people) to separate; go their own way
PART OF SPEECH, noun. (grammar) A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
PART SONG, noun. (music) A form of unaccompanied, often homophonic, vocal composition usually for a few voices or a small choir
PART WAYS, verb. To go in different directions.
PART WITH, verb. To willingly let go of; to give up; to relinquish.

Dictionary definition

PART, noun. Something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton".
PART, noun. Something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together".
PART, noun. A portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite".
PART, noun. That which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation; "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part".
PART, noun. The extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space".
PART, noun. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role".
PART, noun. An actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona".
PART, noun. Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash".
PART, noun. One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division".
PART, noun. A line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions; "his part was right in the middle".
PART, noun. The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part".
PART, noun. The part played by a person in bringing about a result; "I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project"; "they all did their share of the work".
PART, verb. Go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party".
PART, verb. Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up".
PART, verb. Leave; "The family took off for Florida".
PART, verb. Come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated".
PART, verb. Force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea".
PART, adverb. In part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed".

Wise words

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire