Region vs Parts - What's the difference?
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Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
(plural only) intellectual ability or learning
vicinity, region
* 1854 , Lord Cockburn, Memoir of Thomas Thomson , Scotland Bannatyne Club, page 241:
(plural only, euphemistic) The male genitals.
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As nouns the difference between region and parts
is that region is any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons while parts is .As a verb parts is
(part).region
English
Noun
(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions
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English
Noun
(head)- He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
- We intend being at Leamington before long, unless some change in the weather should make our stay in these parts more tolerable.