Part vs Ward - What's the difference?
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(label) A portion; a component.
#A fraction of a whole.
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, 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.
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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".
#*, 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
* (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.
(archaic, or, obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
Protection, defence.
# (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden .
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc. ).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
# Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
#* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book V:
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
# An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching and/or even from being able to locate said-protected premises
# (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
# (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
A protected place.
# (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
#* 1942 , (Rebecca West), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate 2006, page 149:
#* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 78:
# A section or subdivision of a prison.
# An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (UK) A division of a forest.
# (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
# A room in a hospital where patients reside.
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 16, author=Denis Campbell, work=Guardian
, title= A person under guardianship.
# A minor looked after by a guardian.
#* , chapter=22
, title= # (obsolete) An underage orphan.
An object used for guarding.
# The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
#*, II.1:
#* Tomlinson
#* 1893 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:
To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
* Spenser
To defend, to protect.
* Shakespeare
* 1603 , John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.3:
To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off .
* Daniel
* Addison
* I. Watts
To be vigilant; to keep guard.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To act on the defensive with a weapon.
Part is a related term of ward.
As a noun part
is party (political group).As a proper noun ward is
for a guard or watchman.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.}}
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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.
Adverb
(-)Derived terms
* part-finance * take partStatistics
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* prat, rapt, tarp, trap 1000 English basic words ----ward
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ward, from (etyl) . Cognate with German Wart.Noun
(en noun)- no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ward, warde, from (etyl) ; English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.Noun
(en noun)- the best ward of mine honour
- The assieged castle's ward / Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.
- For want of other ward , / He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.
- Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward , / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in
- So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde , surely to be kepte as noble presoners.
- I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward .
- It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
- Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.
- Diocletian.
- With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.
- Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward .
Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients', passage=Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.
- The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
- With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward , where the pressure was applied.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) warden, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight / To ward the same.
- Tell him it was a hand that warded him / From a thousand dangers.
- they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.
- Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
- The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
- It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
- They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward , / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].
