different between part vs environs

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)

1. A portion; a component.
   1. A fraction of a whole.
   2. A distinct element of something larger.
   3. A group inside a larger group.
   4. Share, especially of a profit.

   5. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

   6. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
   7. A section of a document.

   8. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
   9. (mathematics, dated) A factor.

   10. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
2. Duty; responsibility.
   1. Position or role (especially in a play).
   2. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

   3. 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.

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

4. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds.
5. 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

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)

1. (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

2. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
3. (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.

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

5. (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.
6. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.

   • They shall part alike.

7. 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. […]."

8. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
9. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

   • The liver minds his own affair, […] / And parts and strains the vital juices.

10. (transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
11. (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).

Derived terms

• part ways
• part with

Translations

Adjective

part (not comparable)

1. Fractional; partial.

   Fred was part owner of the car.

Translations

Adverb

part (not comparable)

1. 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)

1. birthing (act of giving birth)

   Synonyms: deslliurament, desocupament

2. (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)

1. 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)

1. Parthian

Noun

part m (plural parts, feminine parta)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. duck

Declension

Faroese

Noun

part m

1. 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)

1. share

2. portion, part, slice

3. proportion

Synonyms

• partie

Derived terms

Related terms

• partage
• partager
• partir

Etymology 2

Conjugated form of -ir verb partir

Verb

part

1. third-person singular present indicative of partir

Etymology 3

From Latin partus.

Noun

part m (plural parts)

1. 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)

1. part

Related terms

• partî

Etymology 2

From Latin partus.

Noun

part m (plural parts)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. indefinite accusative singular of partur

Ladin

Alternative forms

• pert

Etymology

From Latin pars, partem.

Noun

part f (plural part)

1. 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)

1. part

Descendants

• English: part
• Scots: pairt

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Latin pars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

part c

1. part, piece
2. party (law: person), stakeholder

Declension

Related terms

• partiell
• partisk
• partition

Anagrams

• prat

Veps

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian ????? (parta).

Noun

part

1. bench

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French environs.

Noun

environs pl (plural only)

1. plural of environ; The surroundings; the environment.

Verb

environs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of environ

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.vi.???/

Noun

environs m pl (plural only)

1. neighborhood (close proximity, particularly in reference to home)

Further reading

• “environs” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• enivrons