part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːt/
enpr: pärt
ipa: /pɑɹt/
ipa: /pɐːt/
ipa: /pɑɹt/
ipa: [p(ʰ)äɹt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /pæɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: parts
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 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”)).
Senses: examples: text: Gaul is divided into three parts.
text: I was in Australia part of last year.
text: 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.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
glosses: A portion; a component.
A fraction of a whole.
examples: text: The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
text: 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.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: A portion; a component.
A distinct element of something larger.
glosses: A portion; a component.
A group inside a larger group.
examples: text: I want my part of the bounty.
glosses: A portion; a component.
Share, especially of a profit.
examples: text: The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
text: This pastry is one part butter to three parts flour.
glosses: A portion; a component.
A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
glosses: A portion; a component.
3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
examples: text: Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
glosses: A portion; a component.
A section of a document.
examples: text: […] the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A portion; a component.
A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
examples: text: 3 is a part of 12.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion; a component.
A factor.
glosses: A portion; a component.
A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
examples: 2022, Herschel K. Stroganoff, The Herc Braveman Adventures
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.
glosses: A portion; a component.
A private part; genitalia.
examples: text: to do one’s part
glosses: Duty; responsibility.
examples: text: We all have a part to play.
text: 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.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Duty; responsibility.
Position or role (especially in a play).
examples: text: The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Duty; responsibility.
The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 15, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 356:
text: He that is not against us is on our part.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 9:40:
text: Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
ref: 1650, Edmund Waller, to my Lady Morton (epistle)
glosses: Duty; responsibility.
Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
examples: text: The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
glosses: The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
glosses: In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
examples: text: which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: men of considerable parts
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
text: great quickness of parts
ref: 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
Synonyms: sense: action of a whole
word: piece
sense: action of a whole
word: portion
sense: action of a whole
word: component
sense: action of a whole
word: element
sense: group within a larger group
word: faction
sense: group within a larger group
word: party
sense: position or role
word: position
sense: position or role
word: role
sense: hair dividing line
word: parting
sense: hair dividing line
word: shed
sense: hair dividing line
word: shoad
sense: hair dividing line
word: shode
sense: Hebrew calendar unit
word: chelek
word: part
Hyponyms: word: car part
word: spare part
word: portion
word: fraction
word: element
word: component
word: constituent
word: piece
word: section
word: division
word: partition
word: ingredient
Derived terms: afterpart
art and part
auto part
bad part of town
bairn's part
be part of life's rich pageant
be part of life's rich pattern
be part of life's rich tapestry
best part of
better part of
bit part
body-part
body part
breeches part
character part
counterpart
daypart
dead's part
discretion is the better part of valor
discretion is the better part of valour
do one's part
dress the part
foreign parts
forepart
for one's part
for the most part
fourth part
hinderpart
hindpart
imaginary part
in bad part
in good part
in ill part
in no small part
in part
integration by parts
intimate parts
jellybean part
lady parts
look the part
man of many parts
man of parts
micropart
midpart
mispart
mouth-part
mouthpart
moving part
multipart
multi-part
name part
natural parts
naughty parts
nonmoving part
of its part
on one's part
on the part of
outpart
overpart
part and parcel
part exchange
part-exchange
parthood
partless
partly
part-of
part of speech
part of the furniture
partonomy
partonym
part out
part-own
part-owner
partscore
part singing
parts interpreter
part-song
part song
parts-to-picker
parts unknown
part-time
part time
part-time bowler
part-timer
partway
part-whole
part-whole bias
part-whole model
partwise
partword
partwork
party of the first part
party of the second part
picker-to-parts
play a part
play one's part
princess parts
principal part
privy parts
real part
say the quiet part loud
say the quiet part out loud
standing part
subpart
sum of its parts
sum of parts
superpart
take part with
take someone's part
tripart
two-part time
underpart
unpart
upperpart
want no part of
working part
Related terms: apartment
depart
impart
partage
partial
participant
participate
participation
participial
participialize
participle
particle
particular
partisan
partisanism
partisanry
partisanship
partite
partition
partitioner
partitive
partner
party