Noun

(en noun)

(label) A portion; a component.

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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.

Noun

(en noun)

A package wrapped for shipment.

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An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.

A division of land bought and sold as a unit.

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(lb) A group of birds.

An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:This youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.

*1847 , (Herman Melville), (Omoo)

*:A parcel of giddy creatures of her own age.

A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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*(John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

*:two parcels of the white of an egg

*(John Addington Symonds) (1840–1893)

*:The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.