part

noun parts

1. A fraction of a whole. Gaul is divided into three parts.
2. A distinct element of something larger. The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
3. A group inside a larger group.
4. Share, especially of a profit. I want my part of the bounty.
5. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
6. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
7. A section of a document. Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
8. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region. […] the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part.
9. dated A factor. 3 is a part of 12.
10. US A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
11. colloquial, euphemistic A private part; genitalia. She wasn't wearing her medieval clothes anymore — she wasn't wearing anything. She was completely starkers — completely Billy bollocks. You could see everything even her part.
12. Duty; responsibility. to do one’s part
13. Position or role (especially in a play). We all have a part to play.
14. 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.
15. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; “hand”. Meaning to gaine thereby, that the fruition of life, cannot perfectly be pleaſing vnto vs, if we ſtand in any feare to looſe it. A man might nevertheleſſe ſay on the contrarie part, that we embrace and claſp this good ſo much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be leſſe ſure, a
16. US The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
17. Judaism In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
18. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense. which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.

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verb parts · parting · parted

1. intransitive To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]). He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
2. transitive To divide in two. to part the curtains
3. transitive To cut hair with a parting.
4. intransitive To be divided in two or separated. A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.
5. archaic, transitive 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.
6. intransitive, obsolete To have a part or share; to partake. They shall part alike.
7. transitive To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
8. obsolete, transitive To hold apart; to stand or intervene between. The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
9. transitive To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion. to part gold from silver
10. archaic, transitive To leave; to quit. since presently your souls must part your bodies
11. Internet, transitive To leave (an IRC channel). He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"[…]so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do[…]maybe talk[…]so we did[…]since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).

adjective

1. not comparable Fractional; partial. Fred was part owner of the car.

adverb

1. not comparable Partly; partially; fractionally. Part finished
2. not comparable to a partial degree. My Native American friend is also part German and part French.