Part vs. Party

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  • Party

    A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration of a special occasion. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing or other forms of entertainment. In many Western countries, parties for teens and adults are associated with drinking alcohol such as beer, wine, or distilled spirits.

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  • Part (noun)

    A portion; a component.

  • Part (noun)

    A fraction of a whole. t

    “Gaul is divided into three parts.”

  • Part (noun)

    A distinct element of something larger.

    “The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.”

  • Part (noun)

    A group inside a larger group. t

  • Part (noun)

    Share, especially of a profit.

    “I want my part of the bounty.”

  • Part (noun)

    A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

    “The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.”

  • Part (noun)

    3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

  • Part (noun)

    A section of a document.

    “Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.”

  • Part (noun)

    A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

  • Part (noun)

    A factor.

    “3 is a part of 12.”

  • Part (noun)

    Duty; responsibility.

    “to do one’s part”

  • Part (noun)

    A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.

  • Part (noun)

    Position or role (especially in a play).

    “We all have a part to play.”

  • Part (noun)

    The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

    “The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.”

  • Part (noun)

    The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. t

    “The part of his hair was slightly to the left.”

  • Part (noun)

    In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. s

  • Part (noun)

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

  • Part (verb)

    To leave someone’s company; to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.

  • Part (verb)

    To cut hair with a parting; shed.

  • Part (verb)

    To divide in two.

    “to part the curtains”

  • Part (verb)

    To be divided in two or separated; shed.

    “A rope parts.”

    “His hair parts in the middle.”

  • Part (verb)

    To divide up; to share.

  • Part (verb)

    To have a part or share; to partake.

  • Part (verb)

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

  • Part (verb)

    To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

  • Part (verb)

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

    “to part gold from silver”

  • Part (verb)

    To leave; to quit.

  • Part (verb)

    To leave (an IRC channel).

  • Part (adjective)

    Fractional; partial.

    “Fred was part owner of the car.”

  • Part (adverb)

    Partly; partially; fractionally.

    “Part finished”

  • Party (noun)

    A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.

    “The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee.”

  • Party (noun)

    A person.

  • Party (noun)

    A person; an individual.

    “He is a queer party.”

  • Party (noun)

    A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.

  • Party (noun)

    With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.

    “I can’t possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour.”

  • Party (noun)

    Active player characters organized into a single group.

  • Party (noun)

    A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.

    “The green party took 12% of the vote.”

  • Party (noun)

    A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.

    “The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party.”

  • Party (noun)

    A social gathering.

  • Party (noun)

    A group of characters controlled by the player.

  • Party (noun)

    A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing.

    “I’m throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday.”

  • Party (noun)

    A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity.

    “We’re expecting a large party from the London office.”

  • Party (noun)

    A part or division.

  • Party (verb)

    To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

    “We partied until the early hours.”

  • Party (verb)

    To take recreational drugs.

  • Party (verb)

    To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one’s wild oats.

  • Party (verb)

    To form a party (with).

    “If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.”

  • Party (adjective)

    Divided; in part.

  • Party (adjective)

    Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

    “an escutcheon party per pale”

  • Party (adverb)

    Partly.

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