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English
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Noun
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- Intellectual ability or learning.
- He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
- (usually with “these”, colloquial) Vicinity, region.
- 1854, Lord Cockburn, Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Scotland Bannatyne Club, page 241:
- We intend being at Leamington before long, unless some change in the weather should make our stay in these parts more tolerable.
- 1854, Lord Cockburn, Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Scotland Bannatyne Club, page 241:
- (euphemistic) The genitals, short for private parts.
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- third-person singular simple present indicative of part
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Chinese
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editFrom English parts. Compare Japanese パーツ (pātsu).
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- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: paat1 si2
- Yale: pāat sí
- Cantonese Pinyin: paat7 si2
- Guangdong Romanization: pad1 xi2
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaːt̚⁵ siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
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- (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly engineering) part; component
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