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book
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: bo?ok, IPA(key): /b?k/
- enPR: bo?ok IPA(key): /bu?k/ (still sometimes northern England; otherwise obsolete)
- plural
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: buck (accents without the foot–?strut split)
Etymology 1
From Middle English booke, book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-West Germanic *b?k, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks. Eclipsed non-native Middle English livret, lyveret (“book, booklet”) from Old French livret (“book, booklet”).
Alternative forms
- booke (archaic)
Noun
book (plural books)
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- 1962, James East Irby translating Luis Borges as "The Library of Babel":
- I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist. Only the impossible is excluded. For example: no book can be a ladder, although no doubt there are books which discuss and negate and demonstrate this possibility and others whose structure corresponds to that of a ladder.
- 1983, Steve Horelick & al., "Reading Rainbow":
- I can be anything.
Take a look!
It's in a book:
A reading rainbow.
- I can be anything.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 51:
- Trefusis's quarters could be described in one word. Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books... Trefusis himself was highly dismissive of them. ‘Waste of trees,’ he had once said. ‘Stupid, ugly, clumsy, heavy things. The sooner technology comes up with a reliable alternative the better... The world is so fond of saying that books should be “treated with respect”. But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?’
- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
- 1962, James East Irby translating Luis Borges as "The Library of Babel":
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- I have three copies of his first book.
- A major division of a long work.
- Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
- Synonyms: tome, volume
- (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
- Synonym: booklet
- (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
- Synonym: libretto
- (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
- Synonyms: account, record
- (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
- (poker slang) four of a kind
- (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
- (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (figuratively) Any source of instruction.
- (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)
- The Book is an oral tradition of belief in The Life that has been passed down from player to player from generation to generation.
- 1994, Antiquarian Book Monthly (volume 21, page 36)
- On the other hand The Book is an oral tradition containing the rules and principles to be adopted by a pimp who wishes to be a player.
- 1974, Adrienne Lanier Seward, The Black Pimp as a Folk Hero (page 11)
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:book
Hyponyms
- See Thesaurus:book
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See book/translations § Noun.
See also
- incunable
- scroll
- tome
- volume
Etymology 2
From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English b?cian, ?eb?cian, from the noun (see above).
Verb
book (third-person singular simple present books, present participle booking, simple past and past participle booked)
- (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
- Synonym: reserve
- (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- They booked that message from the hill
- Synonyms: make a note of, note down, record, write down
- (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
- He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.
- Synonyms: bomb, hurtle, rocket, speed, shoot, whiz
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- He was here earlier, but he booked.
Derived terms
Translations
See book/translations § Verb.
Etymology 3
From Middle English book, bok, from Old English b?c, from Proto-Germanic *b?k, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakan? (“to bake”).
Verb
book
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
References
Anagrams
- Boko, Koob, boko, bòkò, kobo
Limburgish
Etymology
From Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buok, from Proto-Germanic *b?ks.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?k/
Noun
book n (plural beuk)
- book
Mansaka
Noun
book
- piece
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English b?c.
Noun
book (plural books)
- Alternative form of booke
Etymology 2
From Old English b?c.
Noun
book (plural books)
- Alternative form of bouk
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
book
- imperative of booke
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part
English
Etymology
From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to portio (“a portion, part”), parare (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English d?l (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English d?l (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (t?)sl?fan (“to split”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??t/
- (General American) enPR: pärt, IPA(key): /p??t/
- (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /p??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Noun
part (plural parts)
- A portion; a component.
- A fraction of a whole.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- A group inside a larger group.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- A section of a document.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (mathematics, dated) A factor.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- He that is not against us is on our part.
- 1650, Edmund Waller, to my Lady Morton (epistle)
- Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- men of considerable parts
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Synonyms
- (action of a whole): piece, portion, component, element
- (group within a larger group): faction, party
- (position or role): position, role
- (hair dividing line): parting (UK), shed, shoad/shode
- (Hebrew calendar unit): chelek
- See also Thesaurus:part
Hyponyms
- car part
- spare part
Holonyms
- whole
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (p?to)
Translations
Verb
part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate
- It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
- 1841, Andrew Reed, The is an Hour when I must Part [1]
- There is an hour when I must part / From all I hold most dear
- 1860, George Eliot, Recollections of Italy
- his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
- 1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate
- To cut hair with a parting; shed.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
- (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:
- He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
- They parted my raiment among them.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke III:
- (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
- They shall part alike.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."
- (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- The liver minds his own affair, […] / And parts and strains the vital juices.
- (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)
- He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!" […] so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do […] maybe talk […] so we did […] since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).
- 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)
Derived terms
- part ways
- part with
Translations
Adjective
part (not comparable)
- Fractional; partial.
- Fred was part owner of the car.
Translations
Adverb
part (not comparable)
- Partly; partially; fractionally.
Derived terms
- part-finance
- take part
Translations
References
- part on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- part at OneLook Dictionary Search
- part in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- part in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- TRAP, patr-, prat, rapt, rtPA, tarp, trap
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?pa?t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?part/
- (Central, colloquial) IPA(key): /?par/
- (Alghero) IPA(key): /?pa?t/
Etymology 1
From Latin partus.
Noun
part m (plural parts)
- birthing (act of giving birth)
- Synonyms: deslliurament, desocupament
- (figuratively) birth of an idea
Related terms
- parir
Etymology 2
From Old Occitan part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.
Noun
part f (plural parts)
- part, portion
Derived terms
- a part
- a part de
Related terms
- parcial
- partir
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Latin Parthus (“Parthia”).
Adjective
part (feminine parta, masculine plural parts, feminine plural partes)
- Parthian
Noun
part m (plural parts, feminine parta)
- Parthian
Related terms
- Pàrtia
Further reading
- “part” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “part” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
Latin pars
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?part]
- Rhymes: -art
Noun
part m
- part (the melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece)
Related terms
Further reading
- part in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- part in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?rt/
Noun
part n (plural parten, diminutive partje n)
- part
Estonian
Etymology
Onomatopoetic. Cognate to Votic partti. Probably the same root as in parisema (“to thud with pauses”).
Noun
part (genitive pardi, partitive parti)
- duck
Declension
Faroese
Noun
part m
- participle accusative singular of partur
- fyri ein part - partial
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?/
Etymology 1
From Old French part, from Latin partem, accusative of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.
Noun
part f (plural parts)
- share
- portion, part, slice
- proportion
Synonyms
- partie
Derived terms
Related terms
- partage
- partager
- partir
Etymology 2
Conjugated form of -ir verb partir
Verb
part
- third-person singular present indicative of partir
Etymology 3
From Latin partus.
Noun
part m (plural parts)
- newborn
Further reading
- “part” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin pars, partem.
Noun
part f (plural parts)
- part
Related terms
- partî
Etymology 2
From Latin partus.
Noun
part m (plural parts)
- delivery, birth, childbirth
See also
- nassince
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian, from Latin portus. Compare Italian porto (“port, harbour”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p?rt]
- Hyphenation: part
- Rhymes: -?rt
Noun
part (plural partok)
- shore, coast, bank, beach
Declension
Derived terms
- parti
- parttalan
References
Further reading
- part in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Noun
part
- indefinite accusative singular of partur
Ladin
Alternative forms
- pert
Etymology
From Latin pars, partem.
Noun
part f (plural part)
- part
Related terms
- partir
- spartir
Middle English
Alternative forms
- parde, paart, parte, perte
Etymology
From Old French part and Old English part, both from Latin partem, accusative singular of pars, from Proto-Italic *partis.
Noun
part (plural partes)
- part
Descendants
- English: part
- Scots: pairt
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately borrowed from Latin pars.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
part c
- part, piece
- party (law: person), stakeholder
Declension
Related terms
- partiell
- partisk
- partition
Anagrams
- prat
Veps
Etymology
Borrowing from Russian ????? (parta).
Noun
part
- bench
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