Number vs Part - What's the difference?
number | part | Synonyms |
(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
(countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer
(countable, mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.
Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No'' or '' (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
Quantity.
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A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
(countable, informal) A telephone number.
* 2001 , E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, page 86:
* 2007 , Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111:
(grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
(now, rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
* 1635 , (John Donne), The Triple Foole :
(countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
(countable, informal) A person
* 1968 , Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, page 40:
* 1988 , Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, page 214:
* 2005 , Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207:
(countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
* 2007 , Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134:
* 2007 , Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46:
(slang, chiefly, US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
* 2009 , (Thomas Pynchon), Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, page 12:
(dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
To total or count; to amount to.
(numb)
(label) A portion; a component.
#A fraction of a whole.
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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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, title= #(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".
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#*: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.
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#*: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
* (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.
(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.
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*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.
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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.
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*:"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.
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*(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).
Fractional; partial.
Partly; partially; fractionally.
Number is a synonym of part.
As nouns the difference between number and part
is that number is (countable) an abstract entity used to describe quantity while part is party (political group).As a verb number
is to label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).As an adjective number
is (numb).number
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
- “[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number ?”
- When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number'?” Well, I don’t give my ' number to guys I don’t know.
- Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
- I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number ."
- "Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number , "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"
- He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
- The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.
- "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."
- Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number , put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips
- the latest number of a magazine
Synonyms
* (mathematical number) scalarHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* abundant number * algebraic number * binary number * cardinal number * complex number * decimal number * deficient number * do a number on * have someone's number * hexadecimal number * house number * hyperreal number * hypercomplex number * imaginary number * irrational number * meandric number * natural number * nice round number * number-cruncher * number-crunching * number field * number line * number one * number two * number theory * numberless * ordinal number * opposite number * perfect number * phone number * prime number * rational number * real number * round number * serial number * surreal number * take a number * telephone number * transcendental number * transfinite number * whole number * without number * (number)See also
* (grammatical numbers) singular,? dual,? trial,? quadral,? paucal,? pluralVerb
(en verb)- Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
- I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.
Derived terms
* number amongSee also
*Etymology 2
From numb + .Adjective
(head)part
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
An internet of airborne things
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Synonyms
* portion, component, element * faction, party * position, role * parting (UK), (l), (l)/(l) * (jump) chelek * See alsoHolonyms
* wholeDerived terms
* part and parcel * part of speechVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* part ways * part withAdjective
(-)- Fred was part owner of the car.