P`ART, n. [L. pars, partis.]

1. A portion, piece or fragment separated from a whole thing; as, to divide an orange into five parts.
2. A portion or quantity of a thing not separated in fact, but considered or mentioned by itself. In what part of England is Oxford situated? So we say, the upper part or lower part, the fore part, a remote part, a small part, or a great part. The people stood at the nethermost of the mount. – Exod. xix.
3. A portion of number, separated or considered by itself; as, a part of the nation or congregation.
4. A portion or component particle; as, the component parts of a fossil or metal.
5. A portion of man; as, the material part or body, or the intellectual part, the soul or understanding; the perishable part; the immortal part.
6. A member. All the parts were formed in his mind into one harmonious body. – Locke.
7. Particular division; distinct species or sort belonging to a whole; as, all the parts of domestic business or of a manufacture.
8. Ingredient in a mingled mass; a portion in a compound.
9. That which falls to each in division; share; us, let me bear my part of the danger. – Dryden.
10. Proportional quantity; as, four parts of lime with three of sand.
11. Share; concern; interest. Sheba said, we have no part in David. – 2 Sam. xx.
12. Side; party; interest; faction. And make whole kingdoms take her brother's part. – Waller.
13. Something relating or belonging to; that which concerns; as, for your part; for his part; for her part. For my part I have no servile end in my labor. – Wotton.
14. Share of labor, action or influence; particular office or business. Accuse not nature, she hath done her part, / Do thou but thine. – Milton.
15. Character appropriated in a play. The parts of the comedy were judiciously cast and admirably performed.
16. Action; conduct. – Shak.
17. In mathematics, such a portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity. Thus 3 is a part of 12. It is the opposite of multiple. Parts, in the plural, qualities; powers; faculties; accomplishments. Such licentious parts tend for the most part to the hurt of the English. – Spenser. Parts, applied to place, signifies quarters, regions, districts. When he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece. – Acts xx. All parts resound with tumults, plaints and fears. – Dryden. In general, parts is used for excellent or superior endowments, or more than ordinary talents. This is what we understand by the phrase, a man of parts. In good part, as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner; not in displeasure. God accepteth it in good part at the hands of faithful man. – Hooker. In ill part, as ill done; unfavorably; with displeasure. For the most part, commonly; oftener than otherwise. – Heylin. In part, in some degree or extent; partly. Logical part, among schoolmen, a division of some universal as its whole; in which sense, species are parts of a genus and individuals are parts of a species. – Encyc. Physical parts, are of two kinds, homogeneous and heterogeneous; the first is of the same denomination; the second of different ones. Aliquot part, is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes equal to an integer. Thus 6 is an aliquot part of 24. Aliquant part, is a quantity which being repeated any number of limes, becomes greater or less than the whole, as 5 is an aliquant part of 17. Part of speech, in grammar, a sort or class of words of a particular character. Thus the noun is a part of speech, denoting the names of things, or those vocal sounds which usage has attached to things. The verb is a part of speech expressing motion, action or being.

1. To be separated, removed or detached. Powerful hands will not part / Easily from possession won with arms. – Milton.
2. To quit each other. He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. – Shak.
3. To take or bid farewell.
4. To have a share. – Swift. They shall part alike. – 1 Sam. xxx.
5. [Fr. partir.] To go away; to depart. Thy father / Embraced me, parting for th' Etrurian land. – Dryden.
6. To break; to be torn asunder. The cable parted. To part with, to quit; to resign; to lose; to be separated from; as, to part with near friends. Celia for thy sake I part / With all that grew so near my heart. – Waller.

1. To divide, to separate or break; to sever into two or more pieces.
2. To divide into shares; to distribute. – Acts ii.
3. To separate or disunite, as things which are near each other. – Ruth i.
4. To keep asunder; to separate. A narrow sea parts England from France.
5. To separate, as combatants. Night parted the armies.
6. To secern; to secrete. The liver minds his own affair / And parts and strains the vital juices. – Prior.
7. In seamen's language, to break; as, the ship parted her cables.
8. To separate metals.

1. 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.
   
   

   And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet. Acts v. 2.

   Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not contain a secret relation of the parts ? Locke.

   I am a part of all that I have met. Tennyson.

2. To divide] to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.
   
   
   "Thou shalt part it in pieces." Lev. ii. 6.

   There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues. Keble.

3. 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.
4. Partly; in a measure.
   
   
   [R.] Shak.
5. 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.
   
   

   An homer is the tenth part of an ephah. Ex. xvi. 36.

   A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom,
   And ever three parts coward. Shak.

   (b)

6. To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.
   
   

   To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee. Pope.

   They parted my raiment among them. John xix. 24.

7. To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.
   
   

   He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. Shak.

   He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before. Macaulay.

   His precious bag, which he would by no means part from. G. Eliot.

8. 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.
   
   

   We have no part in David. 2 Sam. xx. 1.

   Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part;
   Do thou but thine. Milton.

   Let me bear
   My part of danger with an equal share. Dryden.

9. To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
   
   

   The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. Ruth i. 17.

   While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. Luke xxiv. 51.

   The narrow seas that part
   The French and English. Shak.

10. To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.
    
    

    Celia, for thy sake, I part
    With all that grew so near my heart. Waller.

    Powerful hands . . . will not part
    Easily from possession won with arms. Milton.

    It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son. A. Trollope.

11. One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.
    
    

    For he that is not against us is on our part. Mark ix. 40.

    Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part. Waller.

    (b)

12. Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.
    
    

    The stumbling night did part our weary powers. Shak.

13. To have a part or share; to partake.
    
    
    [Obs.] "They shall part alike." 1 Sam. xxx. 24.
14. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.
    
    

    The liver minds his own affair, . . .
    And parts and strains the vital juices. Prior.

15. To leave; to quit.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    Since presently your souls must part your bodies. Shak.

    To part a cable (Naut.), to break it. -- To part company, to separate, as travelers or companions.