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PARTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The local environment
Example:
he hasn't been seen around these parts in years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("parts" is a kind of...):
environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb part
Context examples:
In medicine, having to do with the movement of body parts.
(Motor, NCI Dictionary)
A huge spread of shoulders and a chest like a barrel were the other parts of him which appeared above the table, save for two enormous hands covered with long black hair.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This city stands upon almost two equal parts, on each side the river that passes through.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A rare type of cancer that forms on or just beneath the skin, usually in parts of the body that have been exposed to the sun.
(Merkel cell cancer, NCI Dictionary)
A group of body parts that work together to perform a given function.
(Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)
I did, at least; but I had my doubts of Peggotty, who was thoughtfully sticking her needle into various parts of her face and arms, all the time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Aneurysms also can happen in arteries in the brain, heart and other parts of the body.
(Aneurysms, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Specifies whether the anatomical parts of the body involved in reproduction are missing.
(Animal Reproductive Organs Present Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)
The parts of him were better adjusted than those of the average dog.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A drug used alone or with dabrafenib to treat melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery or has spread to other parts of the body.
(Mekinist, NCI Dictionary)
