Word: part Part of Speech: noun 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”)). Pronunciation: /pɑːt/, /pɑɹt/, /pɐːt/, [p(ʰ)äɹt], /pæɹt/ 1. A portion; a component. Example: Gaul is divided into three parts. Example: I was in Australia part of last year. 2. A portion; a component. Example: The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle. Example: 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. 3. A portion; a component. 4. A portion; a component. Example: I want my part of the bounty. 5. A portion; a component. Example: The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water. Example: This pastry is one part butter to three parts flour. 6. A portion; a component. 7. A portion; a component. Example: Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2. 8. A portion; a component. Example: […] the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part. 9. A portion; a component. Labels: dated Example: 3 is a part of 12. 10. A portion; a component. Labels: US 11. A portion; a component. Labels: colloquial, euphemistic Example: 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. 12. Duty; responsibility. Example: to do one’s part 13. Duty; responsibility. Example: We all have a part to play. Example: 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. 14. Duty; responsibility. Example: The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging. 15. Duty; responsibility. Example: 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. Example: He that is not against us is on our part. 16. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. Labels: US Example: The part of his hair was slightly to the left. 17. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. Labels: Judaism 18. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense. Example: which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. Example: men of considerable parts