Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) part, portion, component part, component, constituent (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"
S: (n) part, portion (something less than the whole of a human artifact) "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
S: (n) part, piece (a portion of a natural object) "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
S: (n) part (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"
S: (n) region, part (the extended spatial location of something) "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
S: (n) function, office, part, role (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"
S: (n) share, portion, part, percentage (assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group) "he wanted his share in cash"
S: (n) part, section, division (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"
S: (n) category (a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme)
S: (n) rule, regulation (a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior) "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation"
S: (n) property, attribute, dimension (a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished) "self-confidence is not an endearing property"
S: (n) quality, character, lineament (a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something) "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands"
S: (n) texture (the essential quality of something) "the texture of Neapolitan life"
S: (n) feature, characteristic (a prominent attribute or aspect of something) "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics"
S: (n) virilism (the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy))
S: (n) invariant (a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it)
S: (n) aspect, facet (a distinct feature or element in a problem) "he studied every facet of the question"
S: (n) side (an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)) "he was on the heavy side"; "he is on the purchasing side of the business"; "it brought out his better side"
S: (n) downside (a negative aspect of something that is generally positive) "there is a downside even to motherhood"
S: (n) hand (one of two sides of an issue) "on the one hand..., but on the other hand..."
S: (n) sector, sphere (a particular aspect of life or activity) "he was helpless in an important sector of his life"
S: (n) department (a specialized sphere of knowledge) "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"
S: (n) surface (a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something) "it was not what it appeared to be on the surface"
S: (n) attention (a general interest that leads people to want to know more) "She was the center of attention"
S: (n) foil, enhancer (anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities) "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
S: (n) badge (any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank)) "wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability"
S: (n) centerpiece, centrepiece (the central or most important feature) "education was the centerpiece of the Democratic Party's political platform"
S: (n) contour (a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure) "the contours of the melody"; "it defines a major contour of this administration"
S: (n) excellence, excellency (an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels) "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine"
S: (n) external (outward features) "he enjoyed the solemn externals of religion"
S: (n) calling card (a distinguishing characteristic or behavior) "bombs are a terrorist's calling cards"
S: (n) safety feature (feature of an artifact that is added to insure a user's safety)
S: (n) feature of speech, feature ((linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind)
S: (n) abstraction, abstract (a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance) "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
S: (n) quantity (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)
S: (n) part, section, division (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"
S: (n) whole (all of something including all its component elements or parts) "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"
S: (n) law, natural law (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)
S: (n) law, law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature) "the laws of thermodynamics"
S: (n) hypothesis, possibility, theory (a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena) "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"
S: (n) contribution, part, share (the effort contributed 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"
S: (n) piece, part (an item that is an instance of some type) "he designed a new piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china"; "my dog swallowed a Lego part"
Verb
S: (v) separate, part, split (go one's own way; move apart) "The friends separated after the party"
S: (v) separate, part, split up, split, break, break up (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"