Shahi - A visual dictionary

part

(noun)
1. A fraction of a whole; a portion.
  ''Gaul is divided into three parts.
2. A distinct element or component.
  The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
3. A group inside a larger group.
4. Duty; responsibility.
  to do one’s part
5. Share, especially of a profit.
  I want my part of the bounty.
6. Position or role (especially in a play).
  We all have a part to play.
7. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
  The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
8. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
9. A section of a document.
  Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
10. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
  The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
11. 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.
12. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
(verb)
1. To leave.
2. To cut hair with a parting.
3. To divide in two.
  to part the curtains
4. To be divided in two or separated.
5. To leave (an IRC channel).
(adjective)
1. Fractional, partial.
  Fred was part owner of the car.
(adverb)
1. Partly, partially, fractionally.
(preposition)
1. partially composed of
  - 1919, Henry Seidel Canby, Ph. D., Making of America Project: New Books Reviewed, page 711:
    “ We cannot make a plodding and sensible community—a Holland or a Pennsylvania—out of a national personality which, whether by harsh circumstance or native tendency, is now part genius, part fanatic, and part hard-headed materialist.”

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