Definition of part

What does the word part mean?

• part of speech: verb transitive, intransitive

  Divide (t. & i.) into parts, as the crowd parted& let him through, an islet parts the stream, the cord parted (broke); separate (hair of head) with comb; separate (combatants, friends, &c.); p. company, dissolve companionship (with); quit one another\'s company, as let us p. friends, the best of friends must p.; p. with, give up, surrender, (property &c.); (archaic) distribute (thing) in shares. [French]

• part of speech: noun

  (As adv.) in p., partly, (made p. of iron& p. of wood; a lie that is p. truth). (As v.i., colloq.) p. with one\'s money, pay, (if I know him, he won\'t p.).