part

Meanings

Noun

• A portion; a component.
• Duty; responsibility.
• The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

Verb

• To leave the company of.
• To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• To divide in two.
• To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• To divide up; to share.
• To have a part or share; to partake.
• To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• To leave; to quit.
• To leave (an IRC channel).

Adjective

• Fractional; partial.

Adverb

• Partly; partially; fractionally.

Related

Similar words

• piece, portion, component, element
• faction, party
• position, role
• parting , shed, shoad/shode
• chelek

Narrower meaning words

• car part
• spare part

Origin

• From Middle English part, from Old English part ("part") and Old French part ("part"); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per-. Akin to portio, paro. Displaced Middle English dele ("part") (from Old English dǣl ("part, distribution") > Modern English deal), Middle English dale, dole (from Old English dāl ("portion") > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver ("part, portion") (from Middle English sliven ("to cut, cleave"), from Old English toslifan ("to split")).