| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section III. Quantity |
| 4. Concrete Quantity |
| 51. Part. |
| NOUN: | PART, portion; dose, item, particular; aught, any; division; ward, parcel [law or archaic], count; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, cantlet; frustum [rare]; detachment, subdivision. section, chapter, verse; article, clause, phrase, paragraph, passage, number, book, fascicle, fascicule or fasciculus, livraison [F.]. PIECE, lump, bit, snatch; cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scrap, crumb, scale; lamina [See Layer]; small part; morsel, moiety, particle (smallness) [See Smallness]; installment, dividend; share (allotment) [See Apportionment]. ODDMENTS, débris [F.], odds and ends, detritus; excerpta [L.], excerpt. MEMBER, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner, tendril; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part [See Component]; sarmentum. CUE, rôle, cast; lines, pageant [archaic]. COMPARTMENT; department (class) [See Class]; county (region) [See Region]. |
| VERB: | PART, divide, break (disjoin) [See Disjunction]; partition (apportion) [See Apportionment]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | FRACTIONAL, fragmentary, portional [rare]; sectional, aliquot; divided &c. v.; in compartments, multifid; disconnected; incomplete, partial. DIVIDED, broken, cut, severed, clipped, cropped, shorn; seamed. DIVISIBLE, dissoluble, dissolvable, discerptible. |
| ADVERB: | PARTLY, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots. |
| QUOTATION: | A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.—Winter’s Tale |
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