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PARTLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To some extent; in some degree; not wholly

Example:

He was partially paralyzed

Synonyms:

in part; part; partially; partly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

wholly (to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly'))

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 Context examples: 

An artifact that happens when a structure is only partly within the imaging section, pixel or voxel, resulting in the signals of the structure and the adjacent or surrounding structures becoming averaged.

(Partial Volume Averaging, NCI Thesaurus)

But the three most distinguished—partly, perhaps, because the tallest figures of the band—were the Dowager Lady Ingram and her daughters, Blanche and Mary.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The spring fashions are partly down; and the hats the most frightful you can imagine.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

So much I learned partly from village gossip and partly from my own observation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each time she fell off, her sails partly filled, and these brought her in a moment right to the wind again.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion confirmed my resolution.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Perhaps the fault may be partly mine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She drew herself partly away and looked at him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The most recent and most awaited was the epidemiological study Interphone which was partly financed by the Commission.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

This is partly because until now we simply haven't known enough about the amount of allergen which causes a reaction and how day to day factors like tiredness and exercise affect allergic reactions.

(Poor Sleep, Lack of Exercise Increase Risk of Nut Allergy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)