part

1. (satellite adjective) relating to only part of a whole; "part owner"

2. (noun) something less than the whole of a human artifact: "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
Synonyms: portion
Related Words: appendage, bulb, butt, component, constituent, cutout, element, foible, forte, fraction, hub, jetsam, object, physical object, piece, section, segment, stub, wreckage

3. (noun) a line where the hair is parted; "his part was right in the middle"
Related Words: line

4. (noun) so far as concerns the actor specified; "it requires vigilance on our part" or "they resisted every effort on his part"
Related Words: concern

5. (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"
Synonyms: division, section
Related Words: beginning, component, concept, conception, constituent, construct, element, end, factor, ingredient, middle

6. (noun) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part"
Synonyms: voice
Related Words: accompaniment, air, bass, bass part, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, support, tune, voice part

7. (noun) a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
Synonyms: piece
Related Words: acicula, base, body part, corner, corpus, cutting, entity, fragment, hunk, lump, nub, segment, slice, something, strip, stub, world

8. (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"
Synonyms: component, component part, portion
Related Words: detail, item, language unit, linguistic unit, member, particular, point, relation, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest, subpart, substance, unit

9. (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"
Synonyms: contribution, share
Related Words: attempt, effort, end, endeavor, endeavour, try

10. (verb) leave; "The family took off for Florida"
Synonyms: depart, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off
Related Words: blaze, blaze out, go away, go forth, leave, lift off, roar off, sally forth, sally out, take off

11. (verb) go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
Synonyms: separate, split
Related Words: break up, diffract, disperse, dissipate, move, scatter, spread out

12. (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"
Synonyms: break, break up, separate, split, split up
Related Words: break, break apart, break away, break with, disjoint, dissassociate, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divorce, secede, splinter, split up

13. (noun) the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
Synonyms: region
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

14. (adverb) in part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed"
Synonyms: partially, partly

15. (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"
Synonyms: function, office, role
Related Words: capacity, duty, hat, lieu, place, position, second fiddle, stead

16. (verb) come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
Synonyms: divide, separate
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

17. (noun) an asset belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash"
Synonyms: percentage, portion, share
Related Words: allocation, allotment, allowance, asset, cut, dispensation, dole, interest, piece, profit sharing, ration, slice, split, stake, way

18. (verb) force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
Synonyms: disunite, divide, separate
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

19. (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"
Synonyms: character, persona, role, theatrical role
Related Words: bit part, enactment, heavy, hero, heroine, ingenue, minor role, name part, portrayal, title role, villain



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