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Part can be an adverb, a preposition, an adjective, a verb or a noun.

part used as an adverb:

  1. Partly, partially, fractionally.

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

part used as a preposition:

  1. partially composed of

Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →

part used as an adjective:

  1. Fractional, partial.
    "Fred was part owner of the car."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

part used as a verb:

  1. To leave.
  2. To cut hair with a parting.
  3. To divide in two.
    "to part the curtains"
  4. To be divided in two or separated.
  5. To leave (an IRC channel).

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

part used as a noun:

  1. A fraction of a whole; a portion.
    "Gaul is divided into three parts."
  2. A distinct element or component.
    "The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle."
  3. A group inside a larger group.
  4. Duty; responsibility.
    "to do one’s part"
  5. Share, especially of a profit.
    "I want my part of the bounty."
  6. Position or role (especially in a play).
    "We all have a part to play."
  7. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
    "The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water."
  8. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
  9. A section of a document.
    "Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2."
  10. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
    "The part of his hair was slightly to the left."
  11. The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
    "The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging."
  12. In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is part?

As detailed above, 'part' can be an adverb, a preposition, an adjective, a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: Fred was part owner of the car.
  2. Verb usage: to part the curtains
  3. Noun usage: Gaul is divided into three parts.
  4. Noun usage: The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.
  5. Noun usage: to do one’s part
  6. Noun usage: I want my part of the bounty.
  7. Noun usage: We all have a part to play.
  8. Noun usage: The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.
  9. Noun usage: Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.
  10. Noun usage: The part of his hair was slightly to the left.
  11. Noun usage: The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of part are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of part, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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