PARTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parts mean? 

• PARTS (noun)
  The noun PARTS has 1 sense:

1. the local environment

  Familiarity information: PARTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The local environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

he hasn't been seen around these parts in years

Hypernyms ("parts" is a kind of...):

environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)

 Context examples 

Previous research found that the time of the clock is different in different parts of a plant.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

The science of the form and structure of organisms (plants, animals, and other forms of life), or of their parts, and the study or science of the same.

(Morphology, NCI Thesaurus)

As the FUS protein condenses (from droplets to gel) it captures RNA and transfers it to remote parts of the neuron that are involved in making connections (known as synapses) with other neurons.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)

Different types of organisms did not occupy different parts of the water column to avoid competing for resources – a process known as tiering.

(Why life on Earth first got big, University of Cambridge)

It first involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory and language.

(Alzheimer's Disease, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A domain relevant to the science of the form and structure of an organism or of its parts.

(Morphology Findings Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Sir, it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A drug used to treat breast cancer that has come back or spread to other parts of the body.

(ABI-007, NCI Dictionary)

You will need to be very detailed, as there will be many moving parts to the assignment on your desk.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)