part
IPA: pˈɑrt
noun
- A portion; a component.
- A fraction of a whole.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- A group inside a larger group.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- A section of a document.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (mathematics, dated) A factor.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- Duty; responsibility.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
verb
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
- (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
adjective
- Fractional; partial.
adverb
- Partly; partially; fractionally.
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Examples of "part" in Sentences
- Texas is part of the Tornado Alley section.
- Are the harp and piano part of the string section
- It is a part of the historical section in vaccination.
- This section will only focus on the externalizing part.
- The first half is decent but the second part is mediocre.
- The pertinent part is the last half of the last sentence.
- The last part of the section, in brackets, was not comprehensible.
- The remaining part of the body sliced into pieces and buried in manure.
- At least half of that due diligence is on the part of the article creator.
- The piece is difficult, and the piano parts are often percussive and dissonant.
- Miss Snark, the literary agent: Is it Crap..cover letters.. part huit..part soy.
- And the same Apostle tells us, that _now we see through A Glass darkly_; and that _we know in part, and prophesie in part_ [43].
- I wouldnt wish, for my part, replied Mrs Sullivan, to have anything to do wid itneither act nor part; and she crossed herself devoutly, on contemplating such an unholy alliance as that at which her companion hinted.
- And I stand here to-day, sir, to say that with an exception, of which I shall soon speak, _to procure such a lawful investigation of the authority under which they claimed to act, was the part I took in that day's proceedings, and the only part_.
- These facts, or principles, will very probably be found to form only a part of her operations; -- but as they do really form _a part_, they will become a nucleus, round which all the remaining principles when discovered will necessarily congregate.
- The _part_ in the hair is singularly continued in the part between the wings of the golden butterfly ornamenting the head, the eyes are just sufficiently turned aside to give them the appearance of avoiding a direct gaze, and the tight-fitting gown is of white
- Speaking of the condition of slaves, in the eastern part of that state, the report says, -- "The master puts the unfortunate wretches upon short allowances, scarcely sufficient for their sustenance, so that a _great part_ of them go _half starved_ much of the time."
- Mary "the sixth part of one part of two tenements," the death of the second sister should have secured her the _fifth part_ of one part of two tenements, plus the fraction already inherited by the second from the first, or, more simply, the fifth part of two parts of two tenements.
- Another conclusion from the facts enumerated above is that there has obviously been a great world catastrophe, and that this must be assigned as the cause of a large part, -- _just how large a part_ it is at present difficult to say, -- of the changes recorded in the fossiliferous rocks.
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