different between part vs parcel

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

From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Vulgar Latin *particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pär?-s?l, IPA^(key): /?p??s?l/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?p?a?.s??]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?p???.s??]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [?p???.s??]
• Rhymes: -??(r)s?l
• Hyphenation: par?cel

Noun

parcel (plural parcels)

1. A package wrapped for shipment.

   Synonym: package

   • At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
2. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
3. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.

   Synonym: plot

4. (obsolete) A group of birds.
5. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3,^[2]

     […] this youthful parcel

     Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,

   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Part 2, Chapter 79,^[3]

     […] instead of sitting (as she ought to have done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run up into the gallery, and sit with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own age […]

6. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
7. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An essay concerning the nature of aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 4, p. 85,^[4]

     The same Experiments succeed on two Parcels of the White of an Egg […]

   • 1881, John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5, Part I, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 2,^[5]

     The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• lot
• allotment

Verb

parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)

1. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
2. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.

   Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

3. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act II, Scene 2,^[6]

     Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.

   • 1667, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, London: H. Herringman, Act I, Scene 2, p. 12,^[7]

     Those ghostly Kings would parcel out my pow’r,

     And all the fatness of my Land devour;

   • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field” in Enoch Arden, etc., London: Edward Moxon, pp. 94-95,^[8]

     Then the great Hall was wholly broken down,

     And the broad woodland parcell’d into farms;

4. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,^[9]

     […] that mine own servant should

     Parcel the sum of my disgraces by

     Addition of his envy!

Translations

Adverb

parcel (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 1,^[10]

     Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […]

   • 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, or The Cavalier, Chapter 4,^[11]

     […] as the worthy dame was parcel blind and more than parcel deaf, knowledge was excluded by two principal entrances […]

   • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field” in Enoch Arden, etc., London: Edward Moxon, p. 59,^[12]

     here was one [a hut] that, summer-blanch’d,

     Was parcel-bearded with the traveller’s-joy

     In Autumn, parcel ivy-clad;

Further reading

• parcel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• parcel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Placer, carpel, craple, placer

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French parcelle (“parcel”), from Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p???s?l?]

Noun

parcel c (singular definite parcellen, plural indefinite parceller)

1. parcel, lot (subdivided piece of land registred independently in official records)
2. (informal) detached house

   Synonym: parcelhus

Inflection

Portuguese

Noun

parcel m (plural parcéis)

1. a shoal, a sandbank

   Synonyms: vau, vado, baixo, baixio, esparcel, restinga, sirte