Parts vs. Feature: What's the Difference?
Parts and Feature Definitions
Parts
A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.
Feature
Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth.
Parts
Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided
A mixture of two parts flour to one part sugar.
Feature
Often features The overall appearance of the face or its parts.
Parts
A division of a book or artistic work such as a film
A novel in three parts.
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Feature
A prominent or distinctive part, quality, or characteristic
A feature of one's personality.
A feature of the landscape.
Parts
An organ, member, or other division of an organism
A tail is not a part of a guinea pig.
Feature
A property of linguistic units or forms
Nasality is a phonological feature.
Parts
Parts The external genitals.
Feature
In generative linguistics, any of various abstract entities that specify or combine to specify phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of linguistic forms and that act as the targets of linguistic rules and operations.
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Parts
A component that can be separated from or attached to a system; a detachable piece
Spare parts for cars.
Feature
The main film presentation at a theater.
Parts
Often parts A region, area, land, or territory
"Minding your own business is second nature in these parts" (Boston).
Feature
A long, narrative movie, typically lasting more than one hour.
Parts
A role
He has the main part in the play.
Feature
A special attraction at an entertainment.
Parts
One's responsibility, duty, or obligation; share
We each do our part to keep the house clean.
Feature
A prominent or special article, story, or department in a newspaper or periodical.
Parts
Parts Abilities or talents
A person of many parts.
Feature
An item advertised or offered as particularly attractive or as an inducement
A washing machine with many features.
Parts
The music or score for a particular instrument, as in an orchestra.
Feature
Outward appearance; form or shape.
Parts
One of the melodic divisions or voices of a contrapuntal composition.
Feature
Physical beauty.
Parts
The line where the hair on the head is parted.
Feature
To give special attention to; display, publicize, or make prominent.
Parts
To cause to move apart; put apart
Parted the curtains.
Feature
To have or include as a prominent part or characteristic
The play featured two well-known actors.
Parts
To divide into two or more parts; split
The ship's prow parted the waves.
Feature
To depict or outline the features of.
Parts
To break up the relationship or association of
A dispute over ownership parted the founders of the business.
Feature
(Informal) To picture mentally; imagine
Can you feature her in that hat?.
Parts
To comb (hair, for example) away from a dividing line, as on the scalp.
Feature
(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
Parts
To go away from; depart from
He parted this life for a better one.
Feature
An important or main item.
Parts
(Archaic) To divide into shares or portions.
Feature
(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
Parts
To be divided or separated
The curtain parted in the middle.
Feature
(film) feature film
Parts
To move apart
Her lips parted, and she spoke.
Feature
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
Parts
To leave one another; take leave
They parted as friends.
Feature
(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
Parts
To go away from another; depart
She parted from him at college graduation.
Feature
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
Parts
(Archaic) To die.
Feature
(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
Parts
To separate or divide into ways going in different directions
The road parts about halfway into the forest.
Feature
(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
Parts
To disagree or stop associating because of a disagreement
The committee parted over the issue of pay raises for employees.
Feature
An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
Parts
Partially; in part
Part yellow, part green.
Feature
(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
Parts
Not full or complete; partial
A part owner of the business.
Feature
(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
Parts
Plural of part
Feature
(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
Parts
Intellectual ability or learning.
He was a man of great parts but little virtue.
Feature
(transitive) To star, to contain.
Parts
Vicinity, region.
Feature
(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
Parts
(euphemistic) The genitals, short for private parts.
Feature
To have features resembling.
Parts
The local environment; as, he hasn't been seen around these parts in years.
Feature
The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
What needeth it his feature to descrive?
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature.
Parts
The local environment;
He hasn't been seen around these parts in years
Feature
The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
It is for homely features to keep home.
Feature
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; as, one of the features of the landscape.
And to her service bind each living creatureThrough secret understanding of their feature.
Feature
A form; a shape.
So scented the grim feature, and upturnedHis nostril wide into the murky air.
Feature
A prominent aspect of something;
The map showed roads and other features
Generosity is one of his best characteristics
Feature
The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;
An expression of pleasure crossed his features
His lineaments were very regular
Feature
The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;
The feature tonight is `Casablanca'
Feature
A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;
They ran a feature on retirement planning
Feature
An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles
Feature
Have as a feature;
This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France
Feature
Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;
She was sporting a new hat
