Meaning of part in English

The old city around the cathedral is the most colourful part of town.
Detach the lower part of the form from this letter and return it to the above address.
This part of the book isn't very interesting, so I'm going to skip over it.
It's a real fiddle to assemble because of all the small parts.
Each part of the organization operates independently of the others.

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part noun (INVOLVEMENT)

take part

to be involved in an activity with other people:

She doesn't usually take part in any of the class activities.

[ U ]

involvement in or responsibility for an activity, or action:

He admitted his part in the robbery.

I want no part in/of your crazy plans!

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part noun (HAIR)

[ C ] US

(UK parting)

a line on someone's head made by brushing the hair in two different directions:

a centre/side part

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Idioms

be part and parcel of sth
the best/better part of
dress/look/act the part
on the part of sb/on sb's part
part of the furniture
take sb's part

part

verb

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/pɑːt/ us

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C2 [ I or T ]

to separate or cause something or someone to separate:

The curtains parted, revealing a darkened stage.

To be parted from him even for two days made her sad.

[ T ]

If you part your hair, you arrange it so that it falls on either side of your head by separating it with a line down the middle or on one side.

C2 [ I ] formal

If two people part, they leave each other, often at the end of a relationship:

I'm afraid we parted on very bad terms.

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Separating and dividing

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Idiom

part company

Phrasal verb

part with sth

part

adverb

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partly:

He's part African - his father was born in Somalia.

The exam is part spoken and part written.

Synonyms

partially

partly

Opposites

completely
entirely
totally
wholly

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part

adjective [ before noun ]

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not total or complete:

He's (a) part owner of a racehorse.

Part payment is better than no payment.

Synonym

partial

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He had a part share in a bicycle workshop in Nottingham.
His trip to Egypt was part holiday and part official state visit.
We don't know what's the whole truth and what's part truth.

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(Definition of part from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

part | American Dictionary

part

noun

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part noun (SOME)

[ C/U ]

some but not all of something larger or greater:

[ U ] I could only eat part of my dinner.

[ C ] Parts of the movie were good.

[ U ] Surgeons had to remove part of his lung.

[ U ] Part of the problem is that she doesn’t like her boss very much.

part noun (SEPARATE PIECE)

[ C ]

a separate piece or unit of something, esp. a piece that combines with other pieces to form the whole of something:

The garage stocks auto parts from all current car models.

[ C ]

A part is also one of two or more equal measures of something:

Mix one part vinegar with three parts olive oil.

[ C ]

A part is also a single broadcast of a series of television programs or a division of a story:

Part three will be broadcast Tuesday.

part noun (INVOLVEMENT)

[ C usually sing ]

involvement in or responsibility for an activity or action:

He admitted his part in the robbery.

It was a mistake on Julia’s part (= she was responsible).

[ C usually sing ]

A part in a movie or play is one of its characters, or the words written for that character:

She plays the part of Lady Macbeth.

Ben is learning his part for the school play.

part noun (HAIR)

[ C ]

a line formed by the hair on a person’s head where the hair is divided

partly

adverb [ not gradable ] us

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The house is partly owned by her father.

Idiom

a parting of the ways

part

verb

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part verb (SEPARATE)

[ I/T ]

to cause to separate, or to come apart:

[ I ] The curtains parted, revealing a darkened stage.

Phrasal verb

part with something

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part | Business English

part

noun [ C ]

PRODUCTION

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one of the pieces that together make a machine, a vehicle, or a piece of equipment:

The factory makes parts for the motor industry.

auto/gun/missile parts

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A person can be part of all four populations, or none, or one, or two, or three.

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This was perhaps a performance error on her part.

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The machine can make parts by the thousand.

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Paths permitting additional direct effects are also included as part of the model.

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The positive part aims to show that adoption and practice are sufficient to create the fundamental plans of a legal system.

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An important part of planning slurry utilization and management system is estimating the amount of nutrients available for land application.

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This realization on the part of the players materalizes in two ways.

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Second, if a plan exists which is unambiguously in everyone's interest, then the individual players will not hesitate to choose their part of the plan.

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Consumption was part of the ordinary life, still represented, albeit often precariously, by the home front.

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Part of the answer lies in the phonetic redundancy of the signal itself, and the rest in the effects of that redundancy on auditory processing.

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Phonetic transcription reveals that many of children's early uses of wh- words are phonetically reduced and part of fixed sequences.

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Despite all of this ethnolinguistic variety, the legal process of obtaining a protective order operates, for the most part, quite systematically.

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This is particularly clear in the case of research protocols which have become part and parcel of modern oncology.

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For the most part, the returning soldiers were welcomed home warmly.

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The second part returns to the idea that an excess of privatisation has led to a 'tragedy of the anti-commons'.

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