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Synonyms for part
Synonyms for part: office, portion, piece, section, share and split. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 6 synonyms for part
Interchangeable with part, one per sense
Audited under part's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one part carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name part as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- piecepiece is a noun in the sense "an item that is an instance of some type"
- sectionsection is a noun in the sense "one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole"
- shareshare is a noun in the sense "the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result"
- splitsplit is a verb in the sense "discontinue an association or relation"
The first group is filed under part's own senses. The second reach part from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
The government must do its part.
part in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Each nurse on the ward knows her part and completes it without being asked twice.
- In this house, doing the dishes is my part after every meal.
How it behaves: In this sense, part typically follows a possessive pronoun and pairs with the verb do, as in do one's part, and appears in fairly formal or civic contexts.
The true synonym
office
Same sentence, swapped: The government must do its office.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- voice
- piece
- person
something less than the whole of a human artifact
The rear part of the house.
The true synonym
portion
Same sentence, swapped: The rear portion of the house.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- office
- voice
- stuff
Where part turns up in the game
part is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in 13 other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 13 puzzles where part is the trap
- affairnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is thing, in the sense "a vaguely specified concern", and part is one of the three tiles that lose.
- breakverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is interrupt, in the sense "terminate or end", and part is one of the three tiles that lose.
- jobnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is task, in the sense "a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee", and part is one of the three tiles that lose.
- officenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is authority, in the sense "an administrative unit of government", so part is there to be ruled out.
Play part
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so part reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. part carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.