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1. s. A portion; a component. | |
2. s. A fraction of a whole. | |
Gaul is divided into three parts. | |
3. s. A distinct element of something larger. | |
The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle. | |
4. s. A group inside a larger group. | |
5. s. Share, especially of a profit. | |
I want my part of the bounty. | |
6. s. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. | |
The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water. | |
7. s. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink. | |
8. s. A section of a document. | |
Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2. | |
9. s. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region. | |
10. s. (math, dated) A factor. | |
3 is a part of 12. | |
11. s. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom. | |
12. s. Duty; responsibility. | |
to do one’s part | |
13. s. Position or role (especially in a play). | |
We all have a part to play. | |
14. s. (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. | |
15. s. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand". | |
16. s. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. | |
The part of his hair was slightly to the left. | |
17. s. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. | |
18. s. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To leave someone's company; (rare, poetic, literary) to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it. | |
20. v. To cut hair with a parting; shed. | |
21. v. To divide in two. | |
to part the curtains | |
22. v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed. | |
A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle. | |
23. v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share. | |
24. v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake. | |
25. v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. | |
26. v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between. | |
27. v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion. | |
to part gold from silver | |
28. v. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit. | |
29. v. (transitive, internet) To leave (an IRC channel). | |
30. adj. Fractional; partial. | |
Fred was part owner of the car. | |
31. adv. Partly; partially; fractionally. | |
Part finished | |