The difference between Part and Shed

When used as nouns, part means a fraction of a whole, whereas shed means an area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.

When used as verbs, part means to leave someone's company, whereas shed means to part, separate or divide.

Part is also adverb with the meaning: partly.

Part is also adjective with the meaning: fractional.

check bellow for the other definitions of Part and Shed

  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. Shed as a verb (transitive, obsolete, UK, dialectal):

    To part, separate or divide.

    Examples:

    "To shed something in two."

    "To shed the sheep from the lambs."

    "A metal comb shed her golden hair."

    "We are shed with each other by an enormous distance."

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  2. Shed as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.

    Examples:

    "You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed."

    "When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin."

  3. Shed as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To pour; to make flow.

  4. Shed as a verb (transitive):

    To allow to flow or fall.

    Examples:

    "I didn't shed many tears when he left me."

    "A tarpaulin sheds water."

  5. Shed as a verb (transitive):

    To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.

    Examples:

    "Can you shed any light on this problem?"

  6. Shed as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To pour forth, give off, impart.

  7. Shed as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To fall in drops; to pour.

  8. Shed as a verb:

    To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.

  9. Shed as a verb (weaving):

    To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

  1. Shed as a noun (weaving):

    An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.

  2. Shed as a noun (obsolete):

    A distinction or dividing-line.

  3. Shed as a noun (obsolete):

    A parting in the hair.

  4. Shed as a noun (obsolete):

    The top of the head.

  5. Shed as a noun (obsolete):

    An area of land as distinguished from those around it.

  1. Shed as a noun:

    A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.

    Examples:

    "a wagon shed; a wood shed; a garden shed"

  2. Shed as a noun:

    A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.

  3. Shed as a noun (British, derogatory, informal):

    An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.

  4. Shed as a noun (British, rail transportation):

    A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.

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