Noun

(en noun)

One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.

My twin sister says she loves our parents , but honestly, I dislike them .

* c. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), The Tempest , First Folio 1623, I.2:

my trust / Like a good parent , did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.

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And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind [...].

* 2005 , Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian , 24 Aug 2005:

The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.

A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.

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(obsolete) A relative.

The source or origin of something.

* 1785 , (Thomas Jefferson), Notes on the State of Virginia :

Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.

(biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.

(label) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.

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# A parent company.

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(computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A portion; a component.

#A fraction of a whole.

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#A distinct element.

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#A group inside a larger group.

#Share, especially of a profit.

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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

#A section of a document.

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

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:

#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .

# A factor.

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Duty; responsibility.

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#Position or role (especially in a play).

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

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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

#*, II.15:

#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.

#*Bible, (w), ix.40:

#*:He that is not against us is on our part .

#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)

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

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:men of considerable parts

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*:great quickness of parts

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.