<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent</li><li>an essential or integral attribute or quality</li><li>a section or division of a literary work</li><li>a portion, member, or organ of an animal body</li><li>any of a number of more or less equal quantities that compose a whole or into which a whole is divided</li><li>an allotted portion; share</li><li>a region, quarter, or district</li><li>a quality or attribute establishing the possessor as a person of importance or superior worth</li><li>either of the opposing sides in a contest, question, agreement, etc.</li><li>the dividing line formed in separating the hair of the head and combing it in different directions</li><li>a constituent piece of a machine or tool either included at the time of manufacture or set in place as a replacement for the original piece</li><li>Music: the written or printed matter extracted from the score that a single performer or section uses in the performance of concerted music</li><li>a character or role acted in a play or sustained in real life</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to divide (a thing) into parts; sever; break; cleave</li><li>to divide into shares; distribute in parts; apportion</li><li>to put or keep apart; separate</li><li>to separate (silver) from gold in refining</li><li>to cut (one part) away from a piece, as an end from a billet</li><li>to keep the surface of (a casting) separate from the sand of the mold</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to be or become divided into parts; break or cleave</li><li>to go or come apart; separate, as two or more things</li><li>to go apart from or leave one another, as persons</li><li>to depart</li><li>to die</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>of a part; partial</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb:</strong></p><ul><li>in part; partly</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase:</strong></p><ul><li>to give up (property, control, etc.); relinquish</li></ul>