Main entry: part, office, function, role
Definition: the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
Usage: the function of a teacher; the government must do its part; play its role
Main entry: part, share, contribution
Definition: the part played by a person in bringing about a result
Usage: I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project; they all did their share of the work
Definition: something less than the whole of a human artifact
Usage: the rear part of the house; glue the two parts together
Definition: a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
Usage: his part was right in the middle
Main entry: part
Definition: that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
Usage: it requires vigilance on our part; they resisted every effort on his part
Main entry: part, section, division
Definition: one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
Usage: the written part of the exam; the finance section of the company; the BBC's engineering division
Main entry: persona, part, role, theatrical role, character
Definition: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
Usage: she played the part of Desdemona
Definition: the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
Usage: he tried to sing the tenor part
Definition: the extended spatial location of something
Usage: the farming regions of France; religions in all parts of the world; regions of outer space
Definition: a portion of a natural object
Usage: they analyzed the river into three parts; he needed a piece of granite
Main entry: share, percentage, part, portion
Definition: assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
Usage: he wanted his share in cash
Main entry: part, portion, constituent, component, component part
Definition: something determined in relation to something that includes it
Usage: 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; the animal constituent of plankton
Main entry: disunite, divide, part, separate
Definition: force, take, or pull apart
Usage: He separated the fighting children; Moses parted the Red Sea
Main entry: divide, separate, part
Definition: come apart
Usage: The two pieces that we had glued separated
Main entry: depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off
Definition: leave
Usage: The family took off for Florida
Main entry: part, split, separate
Definition: go one's own way; move apart
Usage: The friends separated after the party
Main entry: part, separate, split, split up, break, break up
Definition: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
Usage: The business partners broke over a tax question; The couple separated after 25 years of marriage; My friend and I split up
Main entry: part, partially, partly
Definition: in part; in some degree; not wholly
Usage: I felt partly to blame; He was partially paralyzed