Fore part
(n.) Alt. of Forepart |
Gunter's scale
() A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. |
Part
(n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided |
Part
(n.) An equal constituent portion |
Part
(n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole |
Part
(n.) A constituent of character or capacity |
Part
(n.) Quarter |
Part
(n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity |
Part
(n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment |
Part
(n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy |
Part
(n.) A particular character in a drama or a play |
Part
(n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony |
Part
(n.) To divide |
Part
(n.) To divide into shares |
Part
(n.) To separate or disunite |
Part
(n.) Hence: To hold apart |
Part
(n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion |
Part
(n.) To leave |
Part
(v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces |
Part
(v. i.) To go away |
Part
(v. i.) To perform an act of parting |
Part
(v. i.) To have a part or share |
Part
(adv.) Partly |
Postpositive
(a.) Placed after another word |
Scale
(n.) The dish of a balance |
Scale
(n.) The sign or constellation Libra. |
Scale
(v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale |
Scale
(n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. |
Scale
(n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish |
Scale
(n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura |
Scale
(n.) A scale insect. (See below.) |
Scale
(n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement |
Scale
(n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. |
Scale
(n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. |
Scale
(n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. |
Scale
(v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales |
Scale
(v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth |
Scale
(v. t.) To scatter |
Scale
(v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate |
Scale
(n.) A ladder |
Scale
(n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. |
Scale
(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale. |
Scale
(n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances |
Scale
(n.) A basis for a numeral system |
Scale
(n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave |
Scale
(n.) Gradation |
Scale
(n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts |
Scale
(v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder |
| economy of scale | the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production |
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 |
| contribution part share | 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 |
| Binet-Simon Scale | the first intelligence test |
| part-singing | singing with three or more voice parts |
| scale | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
| fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
| scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
| soft scale | an insect active in all stages |
brown soft scale
Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
| armored scale | insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female |
San Jose scale
Aspidiotus perniciosus | small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees |
auto part
car part | a component of an automobile, his business is auto parts |
part
portion | something less than the whole of a human artifact, the rear part of the house, glue the two parts together |
| plate scale shell | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
| scale | an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
| scale weighing machine | a measuring instrument for weighing, shows amount of mass |
spare part
spare | an extra component of a machine or other apparatus |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
steelyard
lever scale
beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
stern
after part
quarter
poop
tail | the rear part of a ship |
vernier scale
vernier | a small movable scale that slides along a main scale, the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale |
| good part | a place of especial strength |
pH
pH scale | (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter, provides a measure on a scale from
to of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where is neutral and greater than is more basic and less than is more acidic), |
weak part
weak spot
soft spot | a place of especial vulnerability |
| body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity |
| external body part | any body part visible externally |
structure
anatomical structure
complex body part
bodily structure
body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
| part parting | a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions, his part was right in the middle |
| 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 |
| scale value | a value on some scale of measurement |
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 |
character role
theatrical role
part persona | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, she played the part of Desdemona |
bit part
minor role | a small role |
title role
name part | the role of the character after whom the play is named |
meronym
part name | a word that names a part of a larger whole, `brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat' |
part of speech
form class
word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
part-of-speech tagger
pos tagger | a tagging program whose labels indicate a word's part of speech |
mantissa
fixed-point part | the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the mantissa is . |
scale
musical scale | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
| diatonic scale | a scale with eight notes in an octave, all but two are separated by whole tones |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
minor scale
minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
| chromatic scale | a -note scale including all the semitones of the octave |
| gapped scale | a musical scale with fewer than seven notes |
pentatonic scale
pentatone | a gapped scale with five notes, usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted |
C major
C major scale
scale of C major | (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats |
| four-part harmony | harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines |
part
voice | the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music, he tried to sing the tenor part |
| part music | vocal music for several voices in independent parts (usually performed without accompaniment) |