part

[[t]pɑrt[/t]]

n.

1) a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fraction, or section:

the rear part of the house[/ex]

2) an essential or integral quality

3) a section or division of a literary work

4) a portion, member, or organ of an animal body

5) any of a number of quantities that compose a whole:

two parts sugar to one part cocoa[/ex]

6) an allotted portion; share

7) Usu., parts

a) a region, quarter, or district:

a journey to foreign parts[/ex]

b) an attribute establishing the possessor as a person of superior worth

8) either of the opposing sides in a contest, contractual agreement, etc

9) the dividing line formed in separating the hair of the head when combing it

10) mac a constituent piece of a machine or tool, esp. a replacement for the original piece

11) mad

a) the written or printed matter extracted from the score that a single performer or section uses in the performance of concerted music:

a horn part[/ex]

b) a section or division of a composition

12) participation or concern in something; role

13) a person's contribution to some effort or action; duty

14) a role acted in a play or sustained in real life

15) to divide (a thing) into parts

16) to comb (the hair) away from a dividing line

17) to divide into shares; apportion

18) to put or keep apart; separate

19) Obs. to leave

20) to be or become divided into parts; break or cleave

21) to go apart from or leave one another, as persons

22) naut. navig. to break or become torn apart, as a cable

23) to depart

24) to die

25) phv part with, to relinquish

26) partial; of a part:

part owner[/ex]

27) in part; partly:

part wool[/ex]

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- in good part in part on the part of part and parcel

Etymology: bef. 1000; (n.) ME (< OF < L), OE < L part-, s. of pars piece, portion; (v.) ME < OF partir < L partīre, der. of pars