Definition of "part" in Anglais

noun

1. A portion; a component.

2. Duty; responsibility.

   • to do one’s part

3. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

   • The part of his hair was slightly to the left.

4. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

5. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

verb

1. (intransitive) To leave the company of.

2. To cut hair with a parting.

3. (transitive) To divide in two.

   • to part the curtains

4. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.

   • A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle.

5. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.

6. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.

7. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

8. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

9. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

   • to part gold from silver

10. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.

11. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).

adjective

1. Fractional; partial.

   • Fred was part owner of the car.

adverb

1. Partly; partially; fractionally.

   • Part finished

2. (with reference to a person's ethnicity) to a partial degree.

   • My Native American friend is also part German and part French.