ALL meanings of part company
part com·pa·ny
P p - noun part company a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together. 1
- noun part company an essential or integral attribute or quality: a sense of humor is part of a healthy personality. 1
- noun part company a section or division of a literary work. 1
- noun part company a portion, member, or organ of an animal body. 1
- noun part company any of a number of more or less equal quantities that compose a whole or into which a whole is divided: Use two parts sugar to one part cocoa. 1
- noun part company an allotted portion; share. 1
- noun part company Usually, parts. a region, quarter, or district: a journey to foreign parts. a quality or attribute establishing the possessor as a person of importance or superior worth: Being both a diplomat and a successful businesswoman, she is widely regarded as a woman of parts. 1
- noun part company either of the opposing sides in a contest, question, agreement, etc. 1
- noun part company the dividing line formed in separating the hair of the head and combing it in different directions. 1
- noun part company a constituent piece of a machine or tool either included at the time of manufacture or set in place as a replacement for the original piece. 1
- noun part company Music. the written or printed matter extracted from the score that a single performer or section uses in the performance of concerted music: a horn part. a section or division of a composition: the allegro part of the first movement. 1
- noun part company participation, interest, or concern in something; role: The neighbors must have had some part in planning the surprise party. 1
- noun part company a person's share in or contribution to some action; duty, function, or office: You must do your part if we're to finish by tonight. 1
- noun part company a character or role acted in a play or sustained in real life. 1
- verb with object part company Archaic. to accompany. 1
- verb without object part company Archaic. to associate. 1
- adjective part company partial; of a part: part owner. 1
- adverb part company in part; partly: part black. 1
- idioms part company keep company, to associate with; be a friend of. Informal. to go together, as in courtship: My sister has been keeping company with a young lawyer. 1
- idioms part company part company, to cease association or friendship with: We parted company 20 years ago after the argument. to take a different or opposite view; differ: He parted company with his father on politics. to separate: We parted company at the airport. 1
- noun plural part company a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people. 1
- noun plural part company a guest or guests: We're having company for dinner. 1
- noun plural part company an assemblage of persons for social purposes. 1
- noun plural part company companionship; fellowship; association: I always enjoy her company. 1
- noun plural part company one's usual companions: I don't like the company he keeps. 1
- noun plural part company society collectively. 1
- noun plural part company a number of persons united or incorporated for joint action, especially for business: a publishing company; a dance company. 1
- noun plural part company (initial capital letter) the members of a firm not specifically named in the firm's title: George Higgins and Company. 1
- noun plural part company Military. the smallest body of troops, consisting of a headquarters and two or three platoons. any relatively small group of soldiers. Army. a basic unit with both tactical and administrative functions. 1
- noun plural part company a unit of firefighters, including their special apparatus: a hook-and-ladder company. 1
- noun plural part company Also called ship's company. a ship's crew, including the officers. 1
- noun plural part company a medieval trade guild. 1
- noun plural part company the Company, Informal. a nation's major intelligence-gathering and espionage organization, as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. 1
- noun part company to end a friendship or association, esp as a result of a quarrel; separate 0
- noun part company to leave; go away (from); be separated (from) 0
- noun part company to leave; go away from; be separated from 0
- noun part company to stop associating (with) 0
- noun part company to separate and go in different directions 0