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• Part Noun
  1. A fraction of a whole; a portion.
     • Gaul is divided into three parts.
     • Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  2. A distinct element or component.
     • The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
  3. A group inside a larger group.
  4. Duty; responsibility.
     • To do one’s part.
  5. Share, especially of a profit.
     • I want my part of the bounty.
  6. Position or role (especially in a play).
     • We all have a part to play.
  7. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
     • The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
  8. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
  9. A section of a document.
     • Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
  10. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
      • The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
  11. 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.
  12. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
  13. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; a region.
      • The Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part.
• Part Verb
  1. To leave.
  2. To cut hair with a parting.
  3. To divide in two.
     • To part the curtains.
     • I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
  4. To be divided in two or separated.
  5. To divide up; to share.
     • He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
     • He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state.
  6. To leave (an IRC channel).
• Part Adjective
  1. Fractional, partial.
     • Fred was part owner of the car.
• Part Adverb
  1. Partly, partially, fractionally.
• Part Preposition
  1. Partially composed of.
     • We cannot make a plodding and sensible community—a Holland or a Pennsylvania—out of a national personality which, whether by harsh circumstance or native tendency, is now part genius, part fanatic, and part hard-headed materialist.”.