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part | lake |

As nouns the difference between part and lake

is that part is party (political group) while lake is , valley.

part

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A portion; a component.
  • #A fraction of a whole.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • #A distinct element.
  • #:
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title= An internet of airborne things
  • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part' by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the ' part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • #A group inside a larger group.
  • #Share, especially of a profit.
  • #:
  • #A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
  • #:
  • #3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
  • #A section of a document.
  • #:
  • #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.
  • #:
  • Duty; responsibility.
  • :
  • #Position or role (especially in a play).
  • #:
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • #*, chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
  • #(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
  • #:
  • #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.
  • :
  • (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
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *: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.
  • Synonyms

    * portion, component, element * faction, party * position, role * parting (UK), (l), (l)/(l) * (jump) chelek * See also

    Holonyms

    * whole

    Derived terms

    * part and parcel * part of speech

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To leave.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted .
  • *(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
  • *:It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
  • *(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
  • *:his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
  • To cut hair with a parting; shed.
  • (lb) To divide in two.
  • :
  • *1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
  • *:I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
  • (lb) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
  • :
  • To divide up; to share.
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) III:
  • *:He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
  • *(Bible), (w) xix. 24
  • *:They parted my raiment among them.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee
  • *, II.x:
  • *:He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state
  • (lb) To have a part or share; to partake.
  • *(Bible), 1 (w) xxx. 24
  • *:They shall part alike.
  • To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxiv. 51
  • *:While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
  • *
  • *:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted , and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
  • (lb) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
  • To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
  • :
  • *(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
  • *:The liver minds his own affair,/ And parts and strains the vital juices.
  • To leave; to quit.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:since presently your souls must part your bodies
  • To leave (an IRC channel).
  • *2000 , "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...'' (on newsgroup ''alt.support.boy-lovers )
  • *:He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).
  • Derived terms

    * part ways * part with

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Fractional; partial.
  • Fred was part owner of the car.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Partly; partially; fractionally.
  • Derived terms

    * part-finance * take part

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * prat, rapt, tarp, trap 1000 English basic words ----

    lake

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Despite their similarity in form and meaning, (etyl) lake is not related to (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
  • A large, landlocked stretch of water.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake . I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • A large amount of liquid; as , a wine lake.
  • * 1991 , (Robert DeNiro) (actor), :
  • So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * ephemeral lake * Great Lakes * Lake District * Lakes * lakeness * oxbow lake
    See also
    * billabong * lagoon * pond * tarn
    References
    * {{reference-book , last = Kenneth , first = Sisam , title = Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose , origyear = 2009 , publisher = BiblioBazaar , id = ISBN 1110730802, 9781110730803 }} * {{reference-book , last = Astell , first = Ann W. , title = Political allegory in late medieval England , origyear = 1999 , publisher = Cornell University Press , id = ISBN 0801435609, 9780801435607 , pages = 192 }} * {{reference-book , last = Cameron , first = Kenneth , title = English Place Names , origyear = 1961 , publisher = B. T. Batsford Limited , id = SBN 416 27990 2 , pages = 164 }} * {{reference-book , last = Maetzner , first = Eduard Adolf Ferdinand , title = An English Grammar; Methodical, Analytical, and Historical , origyear = 2009 , publisher = BiblioBazaar, LLC , id = ISBN 1113149965, 9781113149961 , pages = 200 }} * {{reference-book , last = Rissanen , first = Matti , title = History of Englishes: new methods and interpretations in historical linguistics , origyear = 1992 , publisher = Walter de Gruyter , id = ISBN 3110132168, 9783110132168 , pages = 513-514 }} * {{reference-book , last = Ferguson , first = Robert , title = English surnames: and their place in the Teutonic family , origyear = 1858 , publisher = G. Routledge & co. , pages = 368 }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lake, lak, lac (also loke, laik, layke), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
  • (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
  • Derived terms
    * bridelock * wedlock

    Verb

    (lak)
  • (obsolete) To present an offering.
  • (chiefly, dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lachen

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Fine linen.
  • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) , referring to the number of insects that gather on the trees and make the resin seep out.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
  • Derived terms
    * lake-red

    Verb

    (lak)
  • To make lake-red.
  • Etymology 5

    Compare lek.

    Verb

    (lak)
  • (obsolete) To play; to sport.
  • Anagrams

    * kale * leak English terms with multiple etymologies ----