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Main Entry:	part [pahrt] Show IPA/pɑrt/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	piece, portion of something
Synonyms:	allotment, any, apportionment, articulation, atom, bit, bite, branch, chip, chunk, component, constituent, cut, department, detail, division, element, extra, factor, fraction, fragment, helping, hunk, ingredient, installment, item, limb, lot, lump, measure, meed, member, module, moiety, molecule, organ, parcel, particle, partition, piece, quantum, quota, ration, scrap, section, sector, segment, share, side, slab, slice, sliver, splinter, subdivision, unit
Notes:	a part is any of the components of a whole; a portion is a part allotted to or regarded as belonging to someone; a piece is a part separated from the whole; a division is a part formed by classifying, cutting, partitioning - and so is a section, though it is generally smaller; a segment is a part separated along natural lines of division; a fragment is a small part, usually broken off
Antonyms:	whole

Main Entry:	part
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	theatrical role
Synonyms:	antagonist, bit, bit part, cameo, character, dialogue, hero, lead, leading role, lines, minor role, piece, principal character, protagonist, romantic lead, silent bit, stock character, straight part, supporting role, title role, villain, walk-on

Main Entry:	part
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	break, disconnect
Synonyms:	articulate, break up, cleave, come apart, detach, dichotomize, disjoin, dismantle, dissever, disunite, divide, factor, itemize, particularize, partition, portion, rend, section, segment, separate, sever, slice, split, strip, subdivide, sunder, tear
Antonyms:	connect, join

Example Sentences

But the best part of being an adjunct is that it can serve as a kind of professorial apprenticeship.

Instead it must be landed and recorded as part of that boat's quota.

But shark populations are being decimated at a frightening pace, killed in large part simply for their fins.

But the best part of being an adjunct is that it can serve as a kind of professorial apprenticeship.

Instead it must be landed and recorded as part of that boat's quota.

But shark populations are being decimated at a frightening pace, killed in large part simply for their fins.

One part provides the intention, and the other powers the actual movement.

Part of the fun of this premise of the franchise is to explore history in ways that are both educational but also playful.

Rose screened part of the driveway with easy-care plants and bamboo trellises.

Here's one tricky part that turns out to not actually be so tricky.

But these two places operate as if they are part of the diaspora.

The giant fish is hard to study in part because it is hard to find and track.

Morphine acts on a part of the brain known as the opioid system, which is linked to pain, pleasure and addictive behaviors.

She'd been making the food for so long that the work seemed part of her.

Cut from the outside to allow the center part of the plant to keep growing.

Stay tuned for the second part of this interview, posting later this week.

The footage is from a project intended to help save the endangered sea lions, in part by uncovering where and how the animals eat.

They suggest that the brain does not register the limb as a part of the body, and contains no representation of it.

They blend together wonderfully which is all part of this city's charm.

The color of the juices in any part of the bird is not a good indication of whether it's done.

Carnivores are a major part of the food web, a description of which organisms eat which other organisms in the wild.

After that, the moon will transit across the northern part of the sun.

The bird's obscurity is due in large part to the remoteness of its habitat.

Most lawns are watered by sprinklers--either the hose-end sort or those that are part of a fixed system.

Then have them state some of the unions or alliances that they're part of.

Moore says that part of the reason was experimental design.

Now, backed by the enveloping curves of a stone-filled wire-mesh wall, this part of the yard feels cozy.

Part of the problem with trying to mobilise deposits from poor people is simple economics.

In the future people who need a body part may get their own back--regrown in the lab from their own cells.

When a part of the earth's upper mantle or lower crust melts, magma forms.

The push for new legislation was inspired in part by high-profile outbreaks of.

How you feel depends in no small part on what you eat, and some foods are great at helping produce the result you're looking for.

Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus.

Researchers must purge e-mail in-boxes daily of threatening correspondence, simply part of the job of being a climate scientist.

Diplomacy is as much a part of her work as teaching fingerholds.

In the final part of the programme students complete a project and dissertation.

For world leaders, geography is a crucial part of understanding how the world works.

Part physics, part poetry--the fledgling un-discipline finds commercial opportunity.

It sits between two rail lines in the northern part of the city, on a creek.

The hardest part of building a wood bench is ensuring that its legs are sturdy and well attached.

The arrows would have been fired as part of the opening exchanges.

Part of our protection of individuals members or cliques.

Sounds once such an essential part of life-the ring of a pre-digital telephone-are disappearing.

When a garden plot is part of a play area, learning about plants is bound to be fun.

Part is presumably push: a feeling that he no longer belongs to the place where he lives.

Those were not a part of the information that was received by their maintenance base.

Enriched with dirt that was collected when the ice was still part of a.

Two lion prides are on display, and each rotates into the exhibit for part of the day.

The first part can be found here and covers an introduction.

Part of the fun of tooling around the community is the mixture of high and low architecture and design.

Now some states are starting to put all or part of the training online.

The current social system of production and distribution around the world is a huge part of the problem.

Electrical activity in the brain's motor cortex speeds down the spinal cord to the part of the.

Wilted leaves often perk up if you cut off the damaged part of the stem and put it in water.

But, truth be told, the latkes are still my favorite part.

You've been doing it for years and it's a big part of your daily routine.

Everybody knows that chewing your food carefully is part of good table manners.

Main Entry:	part
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	leave, go away from someone
Synonyms:	break, break off, break up, clear out, cut and run, dedomicile, depart, ease out, go, go separate ways, hit the road, leave flat, part company, pull out, push off, quit, quit the scene, say goodbye, separate, ship out, shove off, split, split up, take a hike, take leave, take off, walk out on, withdraw
Antonyms:	arrive, come

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Concept:	Part.
Category:	4. CONCRETE QUANTITY
Synonyms:	-nouns part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel., piece, lump, bit, cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale; lamina; small part; morsel, particle (smallness); installment, dividend; share (allotment)., debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum., compartment; department (class); county (region). -verbs part, divide, break (disjoin); partition (apportion). -adjectives fractional, fragmentary; sectional, aliquot; divided; in compartments, multifid; disconnected; partial. -adverbs partly, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots.
Antonyms:	whole
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Main Entry:	abstract
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	take away from
Synonyms:	detach, disconnect, disengage, dissociate, extract, isolate, part, remove, separate, steal, take out, uncouple, withdraw
Antonyms:	add, combine, fill, insert, introduce, unite

Main Entry:	accompaniment
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	music that supports a theme or performer in a composition
Synonyms:	back, back-up, background, backing, harmony, instrument, part

Main Entry:	alienate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	cause unfriendliness, hostility
Synonyms:	break off, come between, disaffect, disunite, divide, divorce, estrange, make indifferent, part, separate, set against, turn away, turn off, wean, withdraw the affections of
Antonyms:	be friendly, disarm

Main Entry:	allotment
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	portion assigned or given
Synonyms:	allocation, allowance, apportionment, appropriation, bite, chunk, cut, cut of pie, end, grant, lot, measure, part, piece, piece of the action, quota, rake off, ration, share, slice, split, stint*

* = informal/non-formal usage
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