part
verb/pɑːt/
/pɑːrt/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they part | /pɑːt/ /pɑːrt/ |
| he / she / it parts | /pɑːts/ /pɑːrts/ |
| past simple parted | /ˈpɑːtɪd/ /ˈpɑːrtɪd/ |
| past participle parted | /ˈpɑːtɪd/ /ˈpɑːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form parting | /ˈpɑːtɪŋ/ /ˈpɑːrtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (formal) if a person parts from another person, or two people part, they leave each other
- We parted at the airport.
- I hate to part on such bad terms.
- part from somebody He has recently parted from his wife (= they have started to live apart).
- [transitive, often passive] part somebody (from somebody) (formal) to prevent somebody from being with somebody else
- I hate being parted from the children.
- The puppies were parted from their mother at birth.
- I refused to be parted from my sisters.
- [intransitive, transitive] if two things or parts of things part or you part them, they move away from each other
- The crowd parted in front of them.
- The elevator doors parted and out stepped the President.
- part something Her lips were slightly parted.
- She parted the curtains a little and looked out.
- [transitive] part something to divide your hair into two sections with a comb, creating a line that goes from the back of your head to the front
- He parts his hair in the middle.
leave somebody
keep apart
move away
hair
Word OriginOld English (denoting a part of speech), from Latin pars, part-. The verb (originally in Middle English in the sense ‘divide into parts’) is from Old French partir, from Latin partire, partiri ‘divide, share’.
Idioms
See part in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya fool and his money are soon parted
- (saying) a person who is not sensible usually spends money too quickly or carelessly, or is cheated by others
part company (with/from somebody)
(also part ways (with/from somebody))
- to leave somebody; to end a relationship with somebody
- This is where we part company (= go in different directions).
- The band have parted company with their manager.
- The band and their manager have parted company.
- He parted ways with the team at the end of the season.
- to disagree with somebody about something
- Weber parted company with Marx on a number of important issues.
- The two leaders parted ways on this question.
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