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part

Pronunciation: /pɑːt/

The English word “part” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A fraction of a whole.
  2. A distinct element of something larger.
  3. A group inside a larger group.
  4. Share, especially of a profit.
  5. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
  6. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
  7. A section of a document.
  8. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
  9. A factor.
  10. A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
  11. A private part; genitalia.
  12. Duty; responsibility.
  13. Position or role (especially in a play).
  14. The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
  15. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; “hand”.
  16. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
  17. 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.

verb

  1. To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]).
  2. To divide in two.

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…

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