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(satellite adjective) relating to only part of a whole; "part owner" |
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(noun) something less than the whole of a human artifact: "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" |
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Synonyms: portion |
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Related Words: appendage, bulb, butt, component, constituent, cutout, element, foible, forte, fraction, hub, jetsam, object, physical object, piece, section, segment, stub, wreckage |
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(noun) a line where the hair is parted; "his part was right in the middle" |
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Related Words: line |
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(noun) so far as concerns the actor specified; "it requires vigilance on our part" or "they resisted every effort on his part" |
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Related Words: concern |
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(noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole: "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" |
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Synonyms: division, section |
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Related Words: beginning, component, concept, conception, constituent, construct, element, end, factor, ingredient, middle |
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(noun) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part" |
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Synonyms: voice |
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Related Words: accompaniment, air, bass, bass part, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, support, tune, voice part |
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(noun) a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
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Synonyms: piece |
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Related Words: acicula, base, body part, corner, corpus, cutting, entity, fragment, hunk, lump, nub, segment, slice, something, strip, stub, world |
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(noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach" |
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Synonyms: component, component part, portion |
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Related Words: detail, item, language unit, linguistic unit, member, particular, point, relation, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest, subpart, substance, unit |
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(noun) any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor: "I am proud of my contribution to the team's success"; "they all did their share of the work" |
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Synonyms: contribution, share |
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Related Words: attempt, effort, end, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(verb) leave; "The family took off for Florida" |
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Synonyms: depart, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
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Related Words: blaze, blaze out, go away, go forth, leave, lift off, roar off, sally forth, sally out, take off |
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(verb) go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" |
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Synonyms: separate, split |
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Related Words: break up, diffract, disperse, dissipate, move, scatter, spread out |
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(verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
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Synonyms: break, break up, separate, split, split up |
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Related Words: break, break apart, break away, break with, disjoint, dissassociate, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divorce, secede, splinter, split up |
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(noun) the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space" |
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Synonyms: region |
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Related Words: Appleton layer, D region, D-layer, E layer, E region, F layer, F region, Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, Shangri-la, aerospace, air, atmosphere, belt, black hole, bottom, deep space, depth, distance, eden, exterior, extremity, heaven, heliosphere, hell, hell on earth, house, inferno, inside, intergalactic space, interior, interplanetary space, interstellar space, ionosphere, layer, location, mansion, mare, maria, nirvana, outer space, outside, paradise, planetary house, promised land, radius, side, sign, sign of the zodiac, space, the pits, top, vacuity, vacuum, zodiac, zone |
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(adverb) in part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed" |
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Synonyms: partially, partly |
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(noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group: "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part" or "play its role" or "do its duty" |
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Synonyms: function, office, role |
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Related Words: capacity, duty, hat, lieu, place, position, second fiddle, stead |
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(verb) come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
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Synonyms: divide, separate |
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Related Words: break away, break off, break up, calve, change, chip, chip off, come away, come off, detach, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, gerrymander, partition, partition off, polarize, reduce, section, segment, take apart |
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(noun) an asset belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" |
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Synonyms: percentage, portion, share |
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Related Words: allocation, allotment, allowance, asset, cut, dispensation, dole, interest, piece, profit sharing, ration, slice, split, stake, way |
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(verb) force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
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Synonyms: disunite, divide, separate |
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Related Words: break, break up, bust, compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut, cut up, disarticulate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, displace, gin, isolate, keep apart, move, polarize, rupture, sequester, sequestrate, set apart, sever, snap, tear |
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(noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" |
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Synonyms: character, persona, role, theatrical role |
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Related Words: bit part, enactment, heavy, hero, heroine, ingenue, minor role, name part, portrayal, title role, villain |
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