part

noun19

1. •
   A portion; a component.
2. •
   a piece or amount of something, but not all of it

   • Gaul is divided into three parts.
   • I was in Australia part of last year.
3. •
   A distinct element of something larger.

   • The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
4. •
   A group inside a larger group.
5. •
   Share, especially of a profit.

   • I want my part of the bounty.
6. •
   Duty; responsibility.
7. •
   Position or role (especially in a play).

   • We all have a part to play.
8. •
   A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

   • […] the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part. — 1590
9. •
   A section of a document.

   • Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
10. •
    A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

    • The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
    • This pastry is one part butter to three parts flour.
11. •
    3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
12. •
    The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

    • The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.
13. •
    (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

    • The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
14. •
    (informal, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.

    • 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. — 2022
15. •
    Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; “hand”.

    • He that is not against us is on our part. — 1611
16. •
    A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

    • which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them. — 1598
17. •
    (old-fashioned) A factor.

    • 3 is a part of 12.
18. •
    (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
19. •
    (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

verb11

1. •
   To divide in two.

   • 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. — 1884
2. •
   To cut hair with a parting.
3. •
   To be divided in two or separated.

   • A rope parts.
   • His hair parts in the middle.
4. •
   To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

   • The narrow seas that part / The French and English. — 1596
5. •
   To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

   • The liver minds his own affair,[…]/ And parts and strains the vital juices. — 1718
6. •
   To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]).

   • He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. — 1596
7. •
   (Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
8. •
   (no longer used) To leave; to quit.

   • since presently your souls must part your bodies — 1595
9. •
   (no longer used) To divide up; to share.

   • He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse. — 1526
10. •
    (no longer used) To have a part or share; to partake.

    • They shall part alike. — 1611
11. •
    (no longer used) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

    • The stumbling night did part our weary powers. — 1596

adverb2

1. •
   Partly; partially; fractionally.

   • Part finished
2. •
   to a partial degree.

   • My Native American friend is also part German and part French.

adjective1

1. •
   Fractional; partial.

   • Fred was part owner of the car.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of participle.