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verb
  1. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
    "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
    separate  part  split up  split  break  break up 
  2. leave
    "The family took off for Florida"
    depart  part  start  start out  set forth  set off  set out  take off 
  3. force, take, or pull apart
    "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
    separate  disunite  divide  part 
  4. come apart
    "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
    separate  divide  part 
  5. go one's own way; move apart
    "The friends separated after the party"
    separate  part  split 
noun
  1. an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
    "she played the part of Desdemona"
    character  role  theatrical role  part  persona 
  2. something determined in relation to something that includes it
    "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
    part  portion  component part  component  constituent 
  3. the part played by a person in bringing about a result
    "I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project"; "they all did their share of the work"
    contribution  part  share 
  4. one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
    "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
    part  section  division 
  5. the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
    "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"
    function  office  part  role 
  6. something less than the whole of a human artifact
    "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
    part  portion 
  7. a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
    "his part was right in the middle"
    part  parting 
  8. that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
    "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part"
    part 
  9. the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
    "he tried to sing the tenor part"
    part  voice 
  10. the extended spatial location of something
    "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
    region  part 
  11. a portion of a natural object
    "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
    part  piece 
  12. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
    "he wanted his share in cash"
    share  portion  part  percentage 
adverb
  1. in part; in some degree; not wholly
    "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed"
    partially  partly  part  partially  partly  part 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University



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