• the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its Part"; "play its role"
• any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor; "I am proud of my contribution to the team''s success"; "they all did their share of the work"
• something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear Part of the house"; "glue the two Parts together"
• a line where the hair is Parted; "his Part was right in the middle"
• so far as concerns the actor specified; "it requires vigilance on our Part" or "they resisted every effort on his Part";
• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written Part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC''s engineering division"
• an actor''s portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the Part of Desdemona"
• the melody carried by a Particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor Part"
• the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all Parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
• a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three Parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash"
• something determined in relation to something that includes it; "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"
• force, take, or pull aPart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses Parted the Red Sea"
• come aPart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
• leave; "The family took off for Florida"
• go one''s own away; move aPart; "The friends separated after the Party"
• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business Partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
• in Part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt Partly to blame"; "He was Partially paralyzed"

'Part' in other languages