Meaning of part in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A portion; a component.

• Duty; responsibility.

  Example: to do one’s part

• The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

  Example: The part of his hair was slightly to the left.

• 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.

  Example: to part the curtains

• To be divided in two or separated; shed.

  Example: A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.

• 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.

  Example: to part gold from silver

• To leave; to quit.

• To leave (an IRC channel).

adjective

• Fractional; partial.

  Example: Fred was part owner of the car.

adverb

• Partly; partially; fractionally.

  Example: Part finished