Meaning of part | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A portion; a component.
2. A fraction of a whole.
3. part; section; portion; share; piece; bit; cut; proportion
4. place; somewhere
5. A distinct element of something larger.
6. Partially; in part: part yellow, part green.
7. side
8. A group inside a larger group.
9. Not full or complete; partial: a part owner of the business.
10. party (e.g. a third party, state party, to be party to)
11. Share, especially of a profit.
12. So far as one is concerned.
13. behalf
14. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
15. To the greater extent; generally or mostly.
16. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
17. Good-naturedly or with good grace; without taking offense: take a joke in good part.
18. A section of a document.
19. To some extent; partly.
20. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
21. Regarding or with respect to (the one specified): Brilliant strategy on the part of Confederate forces ensured their victory at Chancellorsville.
22. A factor.
    dated
23. A basic or essential part: Working overtime is part and parcel of my job.
24. A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
    US
25. To join in; participate: She took part in the celebration.
26. A private part; genitalia.
    colloquial, euphemistic
27. To side with in a disagreement; support.
28. Duty; responsibility.
29. Position or role (especially in a play).
30. The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
31. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
32. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
    US
33. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
    Judaism
34. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

Equivalents

Examples

“Gaul is divided into three parts.”

“I was in Australia part of last year.”

“Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.”

“America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

“The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.”

“It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.”

“A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.”

“I want my part of the bounty.”

“The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.”

“This pastry is one part butter to three parts flour.”

“Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.”

“[…] the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part.”

“3 is a part of 12.”

“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.”

“to do one’s part”

“We all have a part to play.”

“We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.”

“He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,[…], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.”

“The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.”

“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, and feare it ſhould be taken from vs.”

“He that is not against us is on our part.”

“Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.”

“The part of his hair was slightly to the left.”

“which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.”

“men of considerable parts”

“great quickness of parts”

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