| Part |
n. |
One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. |
| Part |
n. |
An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient. |
| Part |
n. |
A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element. |
| Part |
n. |
A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent;
usually in the plural with a collective sense. |
| Part |
n. |
Quarter; region; district;
usually in the plural. |
| Part |
n. |
Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12;
the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure. |
| Part |
n. |
That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office. |
| Part |
n. |
One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction. |
| Part |
n. |
A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act. |
| Part |
n. |
One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc. |
| Part |
n. |
To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. |
| Part |
n. |
To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share. |
| Part |
n. |
To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. |
| Part |
n. |
Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants. |
| Part |
n. |
To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver. |
| Part |
n. |
To leave; to quit. |
| Part |
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. |
| Part |
v. i. |
To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die;
often with from. |
| Part |
v. i. |
To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind;
followed by with or from. |
| Part |
v. i. |
To have a part or share; to partake. |
| Part |
adv. |
Partly; in a measure. |
| Partable |
a. |
See Partible. |
| Partage |
n. |
Division; the act of dividing or sharing. |
| Partage |
n. |
Part; portion; share. |
| Partake |
v. i. |
To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. |
| Partake |
v. i. |
To have something of the properties, character, or office;
usually followed by of. |
| Partake |
v. t. |
To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share. |
| Partake |
v. t. |
To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a part to. |
| Partake |
v. t. |
To distribute; to communicate. |
| Partaken |
p. p. |
of Partake |
| Partaker |
n. |
One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. |
| Partaker |
n. |
An accomplice; an associate; a partner. |
| Partaking |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Partake |
| Partan |
n. |
An edible British crab. |
| Parted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Part |
| Parted |
a. |
Separated; devided. |
| Parted |
a. |
Endowed with parts or abilities. |
| Parted |
a. |
Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade;
said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. |
| Partenope |
n. |
One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs. |
| Partenope |
n. |
One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850. |
| Parter |
n. |
One who, or which, parts or separates. |
| parterie |
n. |
Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (/ Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. |
| Parterre |
n. |
An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. |
| Parterre |
n. |
The pit of a theater; the parquet. |
| Partheniad |
n. |
A poem in honor of a virgin. |
| Parthenic |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniae, or sons of unmarried women. |
| Parthenogenesis |
n. |
The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis. |
| Parthenogenesis |
n. |
The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle. |
| Parthenogenetic |
a. |
Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms. |
| Parthenogenitive |
a. |
Parthenogenetic. |
| Parthenogeny |
n. |
Same as Parthenogenesis. |
| Parthenon |
n. |
A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art. |
| Parthian |
a. |
Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. |
| Parthian |
n. |
A native Parthia. |
| Parti-colored |
a. |
Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. |
| Partial |
n. |
Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon. |
| Partial |
n. |
Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial. |
| Partial |
n. |
Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond. |
| Partial |
n. |
Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole. |
| Partialism |
n. |
Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists. |
| Partialist |
n. |
One who is partial. |
| Partialist |
n. |
One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect. |
| Partiality |
n. |
The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. |
| Partiality |
n. |
A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting. |
| Partialize |
v. t. & i. |
To make or be partial. |
| Partially |
adv. |
In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed. |
| Partially |
adv. |
In a partial manner; with undue bias of mind; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially. |
| Partibility |
n. |
The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance. |
| Partible |
a. |
Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible. |
| Participable |
a. |
Capable of being participated or shared. |
| Participant |
a. |
Sharing; participating; having a share of part. |
| Participant |
n. |
A participator; a partaker. |
| Participantly |
adv. |
In a participant manner. |
| Participate |
a. |
Acting in common; participating. |
| Participate |
v. i. |
To have a share in common with others; to take a part; to partake;
followed by in, formely by of; as, to participate in a debate. |
| Participate |
v. t. |
To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of. |
| Participate |
v. t. |
To impart, or give, or share of. |
| Participated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Participate |
| Participating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Participate |
| Participation |
n. |
The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. |
| Participation |
n. |
Distribution; division into shares. |
| Participation |
n. |
community; fellowship; association. |
| Participative |
a. |
Capable of participating. |
| Participator |
n. |
One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker. |
| Participial |
a. |
Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. |
| Participial |
n. |
A participial word. |
| Participialize |
v. t. |
To form into, or put in the form of, a participle. |
| Participialized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Participialize |
| Participializing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Participialize |
| Participially |
adv. |
In the sense or manner of a participle. |
| Participle |
n. |
A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly,
written, being, and exhaustedare participles. |
| Participle |
a. |
Anything that partakes of the nature of different things. |
| Particle |
n. |
A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust. |
| Particle |
n. |
Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue. |
| Particle |
n. |
A crumb or little piece of concecrated host. |
| Particle |
n. |
The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity. |
| Particle |
n. |
A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely. |
| Particolored |
a. |
Same as Party-colored. |
| Particular |
a. |
Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. |
| Particular |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular. |
