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It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now.

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Quick take

something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of part gathered in one view.

noun

something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"

noun

a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for part.

noun

See also: portion, component, constituent

noun

something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"

noun

a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

noun

that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation; "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part"

noun

the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"

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the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"

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an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"

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assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash"

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one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"

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a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions; "his part was right in the middle"

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the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part"

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the part played by a person in bringing about a result; "I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project"; "they all did their share of the work"

verb

go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"

verb

discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"

verb

leave; "The family took off for Florida"

verb

come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"

verb

force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

adverb

in part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed"

Example sentences

It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now.

But it's hard for them to get funding for it because it's not part of our culture.

Go back and look at that partial list of learnings from Amazon, and tell me which ones Stubby gives you out of the box.

I mean, they're still afraid of that; it's pretty much part of daily life there, working for the Dread Pirate Bezos and all.

I agree that this is poor planning on my part, however, I'm 35 and no one expects to find out that they are going to die at 35.

One head in particular treated the thing as a near-existential threat.

I, who collaborated with a friend on one small part of the assignment, got worried and came in to see you during office hours.

If someone can produce 20 videos that seem decent and want to do more as part of the Khan Academy, we'll point our audience at them.

The fire was also contained to part of the battery pack and did not cause a runaway reaction like in some laptop battery fires.

I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API.

But for the most part they just have a bunch of crappy tools that read and write state machine information into relational databases.

The worst part is here:> Notably, a much stricter rule was set for US government communications found in the raw intelligence.

Don't we need a common-sense refresh to the wording of our laws and potentially our constitution as it pertains to how we now rely upon 3rd parties?

We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines.

Numerous edge cases that would have been lost in high-level review were caught and integrated from day 1 due to my actually watching people do the job for a day or two per department.

But they understand accessibility and they understand the power of third-party development and they eat their dogfood.

They've made some fundamentally non-open choices, particularly around their mobile platform.

No, not when they're being prototyped or tested or used in small scale settings - but definitely somewhere on the path from "tactical use" to "broad strategic dependence".These are not small issues, nor need they be at all partisan.

Oh, that's in there too... they ship a 'configuration profile' which adds a new email account, so your password is leaving the device in cleartext and being used to create the profile server-side which is then shipped back to the phone and installed, how exactly?This just gets worse and worse if I understand correctly... I'm surprised that configuration profiles can be shipped to an arbitrary device from a third party this way without the user manually installing LinkedIn's certificate as trusted.