| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | paa'rt |
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| Rhymes | apart, art, Bart, and 32 more rhymes in aart at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Something determined in relation to something that includes it. |
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| Examples | "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself" |
| Synonyms | portion, component part, component |
| Part of | meronymy, part to whole relation |
| Narrower | language unit, linguistic unit; item, point; basis, base; detail, particular, item; unit; member; substance; remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest; subpart |
| Broader | relation |
| Adjectives | partitive |
| Meaning | The extended spatial location of something. |
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| Examples | "religions in all parts of the world" |
| Synonyms | region |
| Narrower | atmosphere, air; biosphere; depth; interplanetary space; interstellar space; heliosphere; intergalactic space; deep space; aerospace; zone; belt; bottom; county; distance; eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la; extremity; D-layer, D region; Appleton layer, F layer, F region; Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, E layer, E region; hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno; inside, interior; ionosphere; layer; outside, exterior; radius; side; air; vacuum, vacuity; top; zodiac; sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house; Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef; black hole; mare, maria |
| Broader | location |
| Meaning | So far as concerns the actor specified. |
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| Examples | "it requires vigilance on our part" or "they resisted every effort on his part"; |
| Broader | concern |
| Meaning | Something less than the whole of a human artifact. |
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| Examples | "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" |
| Synonyms | portion |
| Part of | whole, whole thing, unit |
| Narrower | appendage; bulb; butt, stub; component, constituent, element; cutout; foible; forte; fraction; heel; hub; jetsam; limb; peen; piece; pressing; section, segment; shank, waist; toe; turnout, widening; wreckage |
| Broader | object, physical object |
| Meaning | One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole. |
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| Examples | "the written part of the exam" |
| Synonyms | section, division |
| Part of | whole |
| Narrower | beginning; middle; end; high point; component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
| Broader | concept, conception, construct |
| Meaning | The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group. |
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| Examples | "the government must do its part" |
| Synonyms | function, office, role |
| Narrower | capacity; hat; portfolio; stead, position, place, lieu; second fiddle |
| Broader | duty |
| Meaning | A portion of a natural object. |
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| Examples | "they analyzed the river into three parts" |
| Synonyms | piece |
| Part of | unit, building block |
| Narrower | body part; corpus; acicula; base; corner; craton; cutting; fragment; hunk, lump; nub, stub; segment; slice; strip; world |
| Broader | thing |
| Meaning | An actor's portrayal of someone in a play. |
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| Examples | "she played the part of Desdemona" |
| Synonyms | character, role, theatrical role, persona |
| Narrower | bit part, minor role; heavy; hero; ingenue; title role, name part; heroine; villain, baddie |
| Broader | portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation |
| Meaning | Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group. |
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| Synonyms | share, portion, percentage |
| Part of | net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings |
| Narrower | tranche; dispensation; dole; way; ration; allowance; slice, piece; split; interest, stake; profit sharing; cut; allotment, allocation |
| Broader | assets |
| Meaning | Any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor. |
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| Synonyms | contribution, share |
| Narrower | end |
| Broader | attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
| Meaning | The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music. |
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| Examples | "he tried to sing the tenor part" |
| Synonyms | voice |
| Narrower | primo; secondo; voice part; accompaniment, musical accompaniment, backup, support; bass, bass part |
| Broader | tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase |
| Meaning | A line where the hair is parted. |
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| Examples | "his part was right in the middle" |
| Part of | hair |
| Broader | line |
| Meaning | In part. In some degree. Not wholly. |
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| Examples | "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed" |
| Synonyms | partially, partly |
| Contrary | wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole |
| Meaning | Go one's own away. Move apart. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
| Examples | "The friends separated after the party" |
| Synonyms | separate, split |
| Narrower | disperse, dissipate, scatter, spread out; break up; diffract |
| Broader | move |
| Nouns | parting |
| Meaning | Discontinue an association or relation. Go different ways. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Examples | "The business partners broke over a tax question" |
| Synonyms | separate, split up, split, break, break up |
| Narrower | give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate; disunify, break apart; disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint; break with; divorce, split up; secede, splinter, break away; break, break away |
| Meaning | Leave. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | depart, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off |
| Narrower | take off, lift off; roar off; blaze, blaze out; sally forth, sally out |
| Broader | leave, go forth, go away |
| See also | part with |
| Nouns | parting |
| Meaning | Come apart. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Synonyms | separate, divide |
| Caused by | separate, disunite, divide, part |
| Entailed by | share, divvy up, portion out, apportion, deal |
| Narrower | subdivide; polarize, polarise; calve, break up; chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off; disjoin, disjoint; detach, come off, come away; segregate; segment; reduce; segment, section; partition, partition off; dismember, take apart, discerp; gerrymander |
| Broader | change |
| Meaning | Force, take, or pull apart. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
| Model | They part their hair |
| Examples | "Moses parted the Red Sea" |
| Synonyms | separate, disunite, divide |
| Cause to | separate, divide, part |
| Entailed by | unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick |
| Narrower | compartmentalize, compartmentalise, cut up; polarize, polarise; sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate; disjoin, disjoint; disjoint, disarticulate; disconnect; cut; tear; joint; gin; break; sever, break up; tear, rupture, snap, bust |
| Broader | move, displace |