The difference between Part and Party

When used as nouns, part means a fraction of a whole, whereas party means a person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.

When used as adverbs, part means partly, whereas party means partly.

When used as verbs, part means to leave someone's company, whereas party means to celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

When used as adjectives, part means fractional, whereas party means divided.

check bellow for the other definitions of Part and Party

  1. Part as a noun (math, dated):

    A portion; a component. A fraction of a whole. A distinct element of something larger. A group inside a larger group. Share, especially of a profit. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink. A section of a document. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region. A factor. A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.

    Examples:

    "Gaul is divided into three parts."

    "The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle."

    "I want my part of the bounty."

    "The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water."

    "Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2."

    "3 is a part of 12."

  2. Part as a noun (music):

    Duty; responsibility. Position or role (especially in a play). The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

    Examples:

    "to do one’s part'"

    "We all have a part to play."

    "The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging."

  3. Part as a noun (US):

    The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

    Examples:

    "The part of his hair was slightly to the left."

  4. Part as a noun (Judaism):

    In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.

  5. Part as a noun:

    A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

  1. Part as a verb (intransitive):

    To leave someone's company; to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.

  2. Part as a verb:

    To cut hair with a parting; shed.

  3. Part as a verb (transitive):

    To divide in two.

    Examples:

    "to part the curtains"

  4. Part as a verb (intransitive):

    To be divided in two or separated; shed.

    Examples:

    "A rope parts.  His hair parts in the middle."

  5. Part as a verb (transitive, now, rare):

    To divide up; to share.

  6. Part as a verb (obsolete):

    To have a part or share; to partake.

  7. Part as a verb:

    To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

  8. Part as a verb (obsolete):

    To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

  9. Part as a verb:

    To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

    Examples:

    "to part gold from silver"

  10. Part as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To leave; to quit.

  11. Part as a verb (transitive, internet):

    To leave (an IRC channel).

  1. Part as an adjective:

    Fractional; partial.

    Examples:

    "Fred was part owner of the car."

  1. Part as an adverb:

    Partly; partially; fractionally.

    Examples:

    "'Part finished"

  1. Party as a noun (legal):

    A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.

    Examples:

    "The contract requires that the party of the first part pay the fee."

  2. Party as a noun (slang, dated):

    A person. A person; an individual. With to: an accessory, someone who takes part.

    Examples:

    "He is a queer party."

    "I can't possibly be a party to that kind of reckless behaviour."

  3. Party as a noun (now, rare, _, in general sense):

    A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc. Active player characters organized into a single group. A group of characters controlled by the player.

  4. Party as a noun:

    A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government.

    Examples:

    "The green party took 12% of the vote."

  5. Party as a noun (military):

    A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.

    Examples:

    "The settlers were attacked early next morning by a scouting party."

  6. Party as a noun:

    A social gathering. A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing. A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity. A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.

    Examples:

    "I'm throwing a huge party for my 21st birthday."

    "We're expecting a large party from the London office."

    "Tupperware party'"

    "lingerie party'"

  7. Party as a noun (obsolete):

    A part or division.

  1. Party as a verb (intransitive):

    To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.

    Examples:

    "We partied until the early hours."

  2. Party as a verb (intransitive, slang, euphemistic):

    To take recreational drugs.

  3. Party as a verb (intransitive):

    To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.

  4. Party as a verb (online gaming, intransitive):

    To form a party (with).

    Examples:

    "If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer."

  1. Party as an adjective (obsolete, except in compounds):

    Divided; in part.

  2. Party as an adjective (heraldry):

    Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.

    Examples:

    "an escutcheon party per pale"

  1. Party as an adverb (obsolete):

    Partly.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Chaucer"

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