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From Middle English part, from Old French part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”). Akin to portio (“a portion, part”), parare (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”)), Middle English dale (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”)), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slīfan (“to split”)).

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part (plural parts)

  1. A fraction of a whole; a portion syn. transl.
    Gaul is divided into three parts.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
      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.
  2. A distinct element or component
    The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
  3. A group inside a larger group syn. transl.
  4. duty; responsibility
    to do one’s part
  5. share, especially of a profit
    I want my part of the bounty.
  6. Position or role (especially in a play)
    We all have a part to play.
  7. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture
    The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
  8. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink
  9. A section of a document
    Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
  10. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions syn. transl.
    The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
  11. (music) 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.
  12. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds syn.
  13. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
      the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part.

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fraction of a whole def. syn.
group inside a larger group def. syn.
position or role def. syn.
3.5 cl portion in a drink
section of a document def.
hair dividing line def. syn.
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part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)

  1. (intransitive) to leave
  2. to cut hair with a parting
  3. (transitive) To divide in two.
    to part the curtains
    • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
      I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
  4. (intransitive) to be divided in two or separated
  5. (transitive, now rare) to divide up; to share
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:
      He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:
      He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state [...].
  6. (transitive, computing) to leave (an IRC channel)

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to leave
to cut hair with a parting
to divide in two
to become divided in two or separated
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part (not comparable)

  1. fractional, partial
    Fred was part owner of the car.

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  • (fractional, partial): See partial.

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part (comparative more part, superlative most part)

  1. partly, partially, fractionally

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  • (Standard) IPA: /ˈpaɾt/
  • (Alghero) IPA: /ˈpaɫt/

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From Latin partus.

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part m. (plural parts)

  1. birth
  2. (figuratively) birth of an idea

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From Latin partem, accusative of pars.

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part f. (plural parts)

  1. part

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From Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).

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part m. (feminine parta, masculine plural parts, feminine plural partes)

  1. relating to Parthia; Parthian

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part m. (plural parts, feminine parta, feminine plural partes)

  1. Parthian

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part (genitive pardi, partitive parti)

  1. duck

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part m.

  1. part, accusative singular of partur
    fyri ein part - partial

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From Latin partem.

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part f. (plural parts)

  1. share
    une grande part - a large share
  2. portion, part
    une grande part de tarte - a large portion of cake
    pour ma part - for my part, as far as I'm concerned, as for me
    pour la part de mon ami - as far as my friend's concerned, as for my friend
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Conjugated form of -ir verb partir

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part

  1. third-person singular present indicative of partir

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From Latin partus

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part m. (plural parts)

  1. newborn

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  • IPA: /ˈpɒrt/
  • Hyphenation: part

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part (plural partok)

  1. shore, bank, beach

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declension of part
singular plural
nominative part partok
accusative partot partokat
dative partnak partoknak
instrumental parttal partokkal
causal-final partért partokért
translative parttá partokká
terminative partig partokig
essive-formal partként partokként
essive-modal - -
inessive partban partokban
superessive parton partokon
adessive partnál partoknál
illative partba partokba
sublative partra partokra
allative parthoz partokhoz
elative partból partokból
delative partról partokról
ablative parttól partoktól
possessives of part
possessor singular possession plural possession
1st person sing. partom partjaim
2nd person sing. partod partjaid
3rd person sing. partja partjai
1st person plural partunk partjaink
2nd person plural partotok partjaitok
3rd person plural partjuk partjaik

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part c.

  1. part, piece
  2. party (law: person), stakeholder
    att vara part i målet
    to have a stake in the claim, to partial, to be biased
    arbetsmarknadens parter
    the stakeholders of the labour market, i.e. trade unions and employers' organizations

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Declension of part
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative part parten parter parterna
genitive parts partens parters parternas

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