part.
A portion; a component.
Meaning & usage
A portion; a component. A fraction of a whole.
Gaul is divided into three parts.
I was in Australia part of last year.
A portion; a component. A distinct element of something larger.
The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
A portion; a component. A group inside a larger group.
A portion; a component. Share, especially of a profit.
I want my part of the bounty.
A portion; a component. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
This pastry is one part butter to three parts flour.
A portion; a component. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
A portion; a component. A section of a document.
Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
A portion; a component. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
A portion; a component. A factor.
3 is a part of 12.
A portion; a component. A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
A portion; a component. A private part; genitalia.
Duty; responsibility.
to do one’s part
Duty; responsibility. Position or role (especially in a play).
We all have a part to play.
Duty; responsibility. 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.
Duty; responsibility. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; “hand”.
The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to Latin portiō (“a portion, part”), parāre (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slifan (“to split”)).
To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]).
To divide in two.
to part the curtains
To cut hair with a parting.
To be divided in two or separated.
A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle.
To divide up; to share.
To have a part or share; to partake.
To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
to part gold from silver
To leave; to quit.
To leave (an IRC channel).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *pérh₃tis? Proto-Italic *partis Latin pars Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin partīre Old French partirbor. Middle English parten English part Inherited from Middle English parten, borrowed from Old French partir.
Fractional; partial.
Fred was part owner of the car.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English part, from the noun.
Partly; partially; fractionally.
Part finished
to a partial degree.
My Native American friend is also part German and part French.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English part, from the noun.
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