0 some but not all of a thing: --
1 a separate piece of something, or a piece that combines with other pieces to form the whole of something: --
We don't see many foreigners in these parts.
There'll be snow in parts (= particular areas) of the Midlands tonight.
Fresh fruit and vegetables form an essential/important part of a healthy diet.
I think there's always a part of you that doubts what you're doing.
We learned about all the different parts of the digestive system.
3 a line on someone's head made by brushing the hair in two different directions: --
5 partly: --
The second part returns to the idea that an excess of privatisation has led to a 'tragedy of the anti-commons'.
For the most part, the returning soldiers were welcomed home warmly.
This is particularly clear in the case of research protocols which have become part and parcel of modern oncology.
Despite all of this ethnolinguistic variety, the legal process of obtaining a protective order operates, for the most part, quite systematically.
Phonetic transcription reveals that many of children's early uses of wh- words are phonetically reduced and part of fixed sequences.
Part of the answer lies in the phonetic redundancy of the signal itself, and the rest in the effects of that redundancy on auditory processing.
Consumption was part of the ordinary life, still represented, albeit often precariously, by the home front.
Second, if a plan exists which is unambiguously in everyone's interest, then the individual players will not hesitate to choose their part of the plan.