Part of speech
(Gram.) a sort or class of words of a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of speech denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part of speech which asserts something of the subject of a sentence. - Howitt.

Part owner
(Law) one of several owners or tenants in common. See Joint tenant, under Joint.

Part singing
singing in which two or more of the harmonic parts are taken.

Part song
a song in two or more (commonly four) distinct vocal parts. - Stainer & Barrett.

v. t.

[imp. & p. p. Parted; p. pr. & vb. n. Parting.]

To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.

There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues.

- Keble.

To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.

To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee.

- Pope.

They parted my raiment among them.

- John xix. 24.

To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

- Ruth i. 17.

While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

- Luke xxiv. 51.

The narrow seas that part
The French and English.

- Shak.

To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.

The stumbling night did part our weary powers.

- Shak.

To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.

The liver minds his own affair, . . .
And parts and strains the vital juices.

- Prior.

To leave; to quit.

Since presently your souls must part your bodies.

- Shak.

To separate (a collection of objects) into smaller collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle.

To part a cable
(Naut.) to break it.

To part company
to separate, as travelers or companions.

v. i.

To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; - often with from.

He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

- Shak.

He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before.

- Macaulay.

His precious bag, which he would by no means part from.

- G. Eliot.

To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; - followed by with or from; as, to part with one's money.

Celia, for thy sake, I part
With all that grew so near my heart.

- Waller.

Powerful hands . . . will not part
Easily from possession won with arms.

- Milton.

It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.

- A. Trollope.

To have a part or share; to partake.

adv.

Partly; in a measure.

Noun	1.	part - 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 part, portion, component
	2.	part - the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space" Synonyms: region
	3.	part - so far as concerns the actor specified; "it requires vigilance on our part" or "they resisted every effort on his part";
	4.	part - something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" Synonyms: portion
	5.	part - 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
	6.	part - 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"; "play its role" Synonyms: role, function, office
	7.	part - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" Synonyms: piece
	8.	part - an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" Synonyms: persona, theatrical role, role, character
	9.	part - assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" Synonyms: percentage, share, portion
	10.	part - 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
	11.	part - the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part" Synonyms: voice
	12.	part - a line where the hair is parted; "his part was right in the middle"
Verb	1.	part - go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party" Synonyms: split, separate
	2.	part - 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 up, split, split up, separate, break
	3.	part - leave; "The family took off for Florida" Synonyms: take off, start out, set forth, set off, set out, start, depart
	4.	part - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" Synonyms: divide, separate
	5.	part - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea" Synonyms: disunite, separate, divide
Adv.	1.	part - in part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed" Synonyms: partially, partly

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