English Explanatory Dictionary

part

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A portion; a component.
  2. A fraction of a whole.
  3. A distinct element of something larger.
  4. A group inside a larger group.
  5. Share, especially of a profit.
  6. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
  7. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
  8. A section of a document.
  9. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
  10. A factor.
  11. A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
  12. A private part; genitalia.
verb
  1. To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]).
  2. To divide in two.
  3. To cut hair with a parting.
  4. To be divided in two or separated.
  5. To divide up; to share.
  6. To have a part or share; to partake.
  7. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
  8. To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
  9. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
  10. To leave; to quit.
  11. To leave (an IRC channel).
adj
  1. Fractional; partial.
adv
  1. Partly; partially; fractionally.
  2. to a partial degree.

Pronunciation

/pɑːt/ pärt /pɑɹt/ /pɐːt/ [p(ʰ)äɹt] /pæɹt/ en-us-part.ogg

Word forms

part parts parting parted

Etymology

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”)).

Synonyms

part piece portion component element faction party hand position role parting shed shoad shode chelek

Related words

apartment depart impart partage partial participant participate participation participial participialize participle particle particular partisan partisanism partisanry partisanship partite partition partitioner partitive partner party

Derived words

afterpart art and part auto part bad part of town bairn's part be part of life's rich pageant be part of life's rich pattern be part of life's rich tapestry best part of better part of bit part body-part body part breeches part character part counterpart daypart dead's part discretion is the better part of valor discretion is the better part of valour do one's part dress the part foreign parts forepart for one's own part for one's part for the most part fourth part hinderpart hindpart imaginary part in bad part in good part in ill part in no small part in part integration by parts intimate parts jellybean part lady parts look the part man of many parts man of parts micropart midpart mouth-part mouthpart moving part multi-part multipart name part natural parts naughty parts nonmoving part of its part on one's part on the part of outpart part and parcel part exchange

Translations

Finnish: annos Finnish: osa Tamil: ஒருவிழுங்கு Tamil: பங்கு Bulgarian: задълже́ние Russian: обя́занность Slovene: del Azerbaijani: ayrılmaq Bulgarian: разде́лям се Bulgarian: разделя́ се Esperanto: disiĝi Hebrew: התחלק Hungarian: elválik Hungarian: szétválik Hungarian: különválik Hungarian: kettéválik Korean: 나누어지다 Korean: 갈라지다 Macedonian: се разделува Norwegian: dele Polish: rodzielić Portuguese: partir Russian: расстава́ться Russian: расста́ться Scots: pairt Spanish: partirse Spanish: apartarse
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