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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section III. Quantity
4. Concrete Quantity

51. Part.

   NOUN:PART, portion; dose, item, particular; aught, any; division; ward, parcel [law or archaic], count; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, cantlet; frustum [rare]; detachment, subdivision.
  section, chapter, verse; article, clause, phrase, paragraph, passage, number, book, fascicle, fascicule or fasciculus, livraison [F.].
  PIECE, lump, bit, snatch; cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scrap, crumb, scale; lamina [See Layer]; small part; morsel, moiety, particle (smallness) [See Smallness]; installment, dividend; share (allotment) [See Apportionment].
  ODDMENTS, débris [F.], odds and ends, detritus; excerpta [L.], excerpt.
  MEMBER, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner, tendril; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part [See Component]; sarmentum.
  CUE, rôle, cast; lines, pageant [archaic].
  COMPARTMENT; department (class) [See Class]; county (region) [See Region].
   VERB:PART, divide, break (disjoin) [See Disjunction]; partition (apportion) [See Apportionment].
   ADJECTIVE:FRACTIONAL, fragmentary, portional [rare]; sectional, aliquot; divided &c. v.; in compartments, multifid; disconnected; incomplete, partial.
  DIVIDED, broken, cut, severed, clipped, cropped, shorn; seamed.
  DIVISIBLE, dissoluble, dissolvable, discerptible.
   ADVERB:PARTLY, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots.
   QUOTATION:A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.—Winter’s Tale