Part vs. Feature

Part vs. Feature — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Part and Feature

Partnoun

A portion; a component.

Featurenoun

(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

Partnoun

A fraction of a whole. t

Gaul is divided into three parts.

Featurenoun

An important or main item.

Partnoun

A distinct element of something larger.

The parts of a chainsaw include the chain, engine, and handle.

Featurenoun

(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

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Partnoun

A group inside a larger group. t

Featurenoun

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

Partnoun

Share, especially of a profit.

I want my part of the bounty.

Featurenoun

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

Partnoun

A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

The mixture comprises one part sodium hydroxide and ten parts water.

Featurenoun

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

one of the features of the landscape
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Partnoun

3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

Featurenoun

(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

Partnoun

A section of a document.

Please turn to Part I, Chapter 2.

Featurenoun

(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

Partnoun

A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

Featurenoun

An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.

Partnoun

A factor.

3 is a part of 12.

Featurenoun

(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.

Partnoun

(US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.

Featurenoun

(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

Partnoun

Duty; responsibility.

to do one’s part

Featureverb

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

Partnoun

Position or role (especially in a play).

We all have a part to play.

Featureverb

(transitive) To star, to contain.

Partnoun

(music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

The first violin part in this concerto is very challenging.

Featureverb

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

Partnoun

Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

Featureverb

To have features resembling.

Partnoun

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. t

The part of his hair was slightly to the left.

Featurenoun

a prominent aspect of something;

the map showed roads and other featuresgenerosity is one of his best characteristics

Partnoun

(Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. s

Featurenoun

the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;

an expression of pleasure crossed his featureshis lineaments were very regular

Partnoun

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

Featurenoun

the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;

the feature tonight is `Casablanca'

Partverb

(intransitive) To leave someone's company; to go way; to die; to get rid of something, stop using it.

Featurenoun

a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;

they ran a feature on retirement planning

Partverb

To cut hair with a parting; shed.

Featurenoun

an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

Partverb

(transitive) To divide in two.

to part the curtains

Featureverb

have as a feature;

This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France

Partverb

(intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.

A rope parts.His hair parts in the middle.

Featureverb

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;

she was sporting a new hat

Partverb

To divide up; to share.

Partverb

(obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.

Partverb

To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

Partverb

(obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.

Partverb

To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.

to part gold from silver

Partverb

To leave; to quit.

Partverb

To leave (an IRC channel).

Partadjective

Fractional; partial.

Fred was part owner of the car.

Partadverb

Partly; partially; fractionally.

Part finished

Partnoun

something determined in relation to something that includes it;

he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himselfI read a portion of the manuscriptthe smaller component is hard to reach

Partnoun

the extended spatial location of something;

the farming regions of Francereligions in all parts of the worldregions of outer space

Partnoun

so far as concerns the actor specified;

it requires vigilance on our partthey resisted every effort on his part

Partnoun

something less than the whole of a human artifact;

the rear part of the houseglue the two parts together

Partnoun

one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

the written part of the examthe finance section of the companythe BBC's engineering division

Partnoun

the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group;

the function of a teacherthe government must do its partplay its role

Partnoun

a portion of a natural object;

they analyzed the river into three partshe needed a piece of granite

Partnoun

an actor's portrayal of someone in a play;

she played the part of Desdemona

Partnoun

assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;

he wanted his share in cash

Partnoun

any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor;

I am proud of my contribution to the team's successthey all did their share of the work

Partnoun

the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music;

he tried to sing the tenor part

Partnoun

a line where the hair is parted;

his part was right in the middle

Partverb

go one's own away; move apart;

The friends separated after the party

Partverb

discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;

The business partners broke over a tax questionThe couple separated after 25 years of marriageMy friend and I split up

Partverb

leave;

The family took off for Florida

Partverb

come apart;

The two pieces that we had glued separated

Partverb

force, take, or pull apart;

He separated the fighting childrenMoses parted the Red Sea

Partadverb

in part; in some degree; not wholly;

I felt partly to blameHe was partially paralyzed