part
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
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
form: parting
form: parted
form: parted
Etymology: From Middle English parten, from Old French partir.
Senses: examples: text: He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
ref: 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate:
text: There is an hour when I must part / From all I hold most dear
ref: 1841, “There is an Hour when I must Part”, Andrew Reed (lyrics):
text: his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
ref: 1860, George Eliot, Recollections of Italy:
glosses: To leave the company of.
glosses: To cut hair with a parting.
examples: text: to part the curtains
text: 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.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To divide in two.
examples: text: A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.
text: I see the Red Sea part in front of me
I see the desert clouds bleed above me
I'm with the prophets on the final destiny
We'll fight the heathens and the ghost enemy
This is the prophecy
ref: 2004, “Prophecy”, in Max Cavalera (lyrics), Max Cavalera (music), Prophecy, performed by Soulfly, Track 1:
glosses: To be divided in two or separated.
examples: text: He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
text: He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: They parted my raiment among them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 19:24:
text: to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee
ref: c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
text: Her friend parted his breakfast — a scanty mess of coffee and some coarse bread — with the child and her grandfather, and inquired whither they were going.
ref: 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
glosses: To divide up; to share.
examples: text: They shall part alike.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:24:
glosses: To have a part or share; to partake.
examples: text: The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:
text: While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 24:51:
text: "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
examples: text: The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
glosses: To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
examples: text: to part gold from silver
text: The liver minds his own affair,[…]/ And parts and strains the vital juices.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
glosses: To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
examples: text: since presently your souls must part your bodies
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To leave; to quit.
examples: text: He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"[…]so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do[…]maybe talk[…]so we did[…]since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).
ref: 2000, Phantom, “Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet):
glosses: To leave (an IRC channel).
Derived terms: a fool and his money are soon parted
mispart
overpart
partable
part brass rags
part company
part ways
part with
till death do us part
till death us do part
underpart
unpart