| part company |
to terminate a friendship or association. |
| parterre |
the rear part of the main floor of a theater, usu. below the balconies. [2 definitions] |
| parthenogenesis |
a process of development of an egg without fertilization, as in some lower animals and plants. |
| Parthenon |
the temple of Athena built in the Doric style in the fifth century B.C. on the Acropolis in Athens. |
| Parthenos |
a descriptive addition, meaning "virgin," to the names of certain ancient Greek goddesses, esp. Athena. |
| Parthia |
an ancient country in southwest Asia originating in what is now northeastern Iran. |
| Parthian shot |
an unfriendly or sharp remark or gesture made as one departs; parting shot. |
| partial |
not complete. [4 definitions] |
| partiality |
the condition of being partial. [3 definitions] |
| partially |
partly; not completely. |
| partial tone |
in music, any of the pure tones that make up a complex tone; harmonic. |
| participant |
a person who participates or takes part. [2 definitions] |
| participate |
to take part; share (usu. fol. by "in"). |
| participation |
the act or an instance of participating. [2 definitions] |
| participial |
of, like, pertaining to, or formed with a participle. [2 definitions] |
| participle |
in grammar, a verb form that combines with certain auxiliary verbs ("be" or "have") to give a verb in a sentence a particular aspect, either "perfect" or "progressive," or voice, either "active" or "passive." Participles can also serve the function of adjectives. |
| particle |
a minute quantity or piece; speck; trace. [2 definitions] |
| particle beam |
a stream of atomic or subatomic particles projected at extremely high speed and used in research, as into nuclear reactions, or in military weaponry. |
| particle board |
any of several boardlike building materials made by compressing wood chips, flakes, or sawdust with a bonding resin. |
| parti-colored |
having two or more different colors; variegated. |
| particular |
of or pertaining to a single person, thing, or event and only to that single person, thing, or event. [7 definitions] |