part

Meaning

Noun

1. A portion; a component.
2. A portion; a component.
3. A portion; a component.
4. A portion; a component.
5. A portion; a component.
6. A portion; a component.
7. A portion; a component.
8. A portion; a component.
9. (dated) A portion; a component.
10. (US) A portion; a component.
11. (colloquial, euphemistic) A portion; a component.
12. Duty; responsibility.
13. Duty; responsibility.
14. Duty; responsibility.
15. Duty; responsibility.
16. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
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.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To leave the company of.
2. To cut hair with a parting.
3. (transitive) To divide in two.
4. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
5. (archaic, transitive) To divide up; to share.
6. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
7. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
8. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
9. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
10. (archaic, transitive) To leave; to quit.
11. (Internet, transitive) To leave (an IRC channel).

Adj

Fractional; partial.

Adv

1. (not-comparable) Partly; partially; fractionally.
2. (not-comparable) to a partial degree.

Synonyms

portion

section

piece

separate

share

component

divide

division

side

role

split

bit

half

segment

element

some

move apart

chapter

area

region

fragment

place

unit

fraction

break

slice

detail

constituent

parting

ration

divorce

allotment

lot

leave

split up

component part

function

chunk

organ

character

member

department

passage

figure

direction

branch

disunite

lump

sever

instalment

Translations

partie

Teil

parte

parte

part

parte

deel

stuk

morceau

portion

pièce

élément

trennen

séparer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɑːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: part

Inherited from Old English: part

Inherited from Middle English: parten

Cognate with Middle English: dele

Cognate with Old English: dæl

Cognate with Middle English: dale

Cognate with Old English: dal

Cognate with Middle English: sliver

Cognate with Middle English: sliven

Cognate with Old English: toslifan

In summary

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”)).

Sentences

However , the town became a part of Czechoslovakia .

Two of his commanders were executed after the siege for their part in it .

That's the best part of it .

Olympic hopeful Andrew Campbell is a part of the Junior program .

This is part of a system's live-assist mode .

The Syriac Catholic Church was originally part of the Syriac Orthodox Church .